Innovations

Holly Health is a personalised, digital health coaching app, designed to support people to develop sustainable health behaviours, aiming to reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases. So far, it has supported over 20,000 people in achieving long-term physical and mental health changes.

Enabling remote care and clinical decision-making at scale, this system enables clinical teams to run highly automated and efficient digital pathways using secure submission of multimedia and clinical data. Integrated into NHS technologies and used across Acute and Community care to support triage, caseload management, self-care and specific pathways like Epilepsy and Two Week Wait Cancer. Efficient pathways, empowered patients, scalable health systems.

JanamApp is a culturally sensitive, linguistically appropriate, evidence-based digital companion for pregnant and postnatal South Asian communities. Available in English and six South Asian languages, it aims to educate, empower, and reduce health inequalities by providing tailored, accessible information to support informed decision-making and improve maternal health outcomes.

A digital health app providing personalised kidney-specific content and professional support for chronic kidney disease patients. It includes online exercise, education, and well-being classes led by kidney physiotherapists and exercise professionals, supported by clinical champions in participating kidney units, aiming to enhance patient engagement and outcomes.

Research and healthcare generate an enormous amount of plastic waste every year, and most of it ends up in landfills or incinerators. LabCycle’s innovative decontamination solution transforms used plastics into high-quality materials, and we make new products for research and healthcare applications. We help research and healthcare institutions reduce waste, lower costs, and meet sustainability goals, without compromising safety or efficiency.

myHappymind is an innovative, digital mental wellness program delivered in primary schools and nurseries to children, staff and parents. It teaches science-backed strategies to prevent mental health issues and reduce CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) referrals. myHappymind is operating in over 1000 schools across the UK, is available in Welsh and is commissioned by 16 places and growing. myHappymind also has a program for families to enable parents to support their children from home. This is currently commissioned by the NHS for children on the waitlist for specialist services so that they have some support while they wait.

MyRenalCare empowers individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease to self-manage their condition from home with remote support from Renal Specialists. This significantly increases capacity, allowing for more patients to be cared for at lower cost.

Nettle is a non-invasive medical grade wearable device that transforms menstrual pain and mood symptom management through advanced neuromodulation technology. Using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), Nettle targets key brain regions involved in pain perception and emotional regulation, providing a safe and effective alternative to medication. Clinically validated and CE-marked as a Class IIa medical device, Nettle has been shown to deliver significant pain relief and mood improvement, with ongoing trials in endometriosis and PMDD. Designed for at-home use, this rechargeable, app-controlled device offers a simple, user-friendly solution for menstrual health.

The NHS faces significant challenges in adopting and scaling AI solutions due to fragmented deployment, regulatory hurdles, and a lack of standardised evaluation and monitoring. Newton’s Tree provides a comprehensive AI deployment platform that enables NHS Trusts to seamlessly integrate multiple AI solutions into their clinical workflows, ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous performance monitoring. By reducing barriers to adoption and making AI more accessible, we help the NHS harness the full potential of AI technologies to improve patient care and operational efficiency.

Pathpoint eDerma is a cloud-based teledermatology system that streamlines both acute ward referrals and GP 2ww (2 week-wait) cancer pathways. The platform supports the entire patient pathway from initial referral in primary and secondary care to management and discharge.

The PinPoint Test is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven, affordable blood test for cancer, designed to optimise NHS urgent cancer referral pathways. It has the potential to transform the patient experience, reduce systemic overloading and allow clinicians to focus their time on the patients that need them most.

The NHS spends more treating cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases than any other illness – £7.4 billion pay for CVD alone and yet are up to 80% preventable. PocDoc has developed innovative smartphone-based technology that enables clinical-grade screening at home, at work or in the community for cardio, metabolic and renal diseases. PocDoc’s flagship product, the ‘Healthy Heart Check delivers the equivalent of an NHS Health Check in 10 minutes, as opposed to 2 (or more) appointments in primary care. Patients can be connected in real-time to digital treatment pathways, results are shared back into the record and into the NHS app. The ‘Healthy Heart Check’ delivers a full cholesterol profile, BMI score, calculates heart age, and provides a ten-year risk assessment for heart attacks or strokes – all in under 10 minutes