“Are you an early to mid-stage healthcare / life sciences innovator or entrepreneur, seeking business development support for a health-based product or service? Apply for a place on the Health Innovation Programme to test the validity of your business model, learn to explain the value of your proposition to the health sector and how to navigate the complex NHS landscape.“
Claire Denyer, Project Manager

Are you an early to mid-stage healthcare / life sciences innovator or entrepreneur, seeking business development support for a health-based product or service? Apply for a place on the Health Innovation Programme to test the validity of your business model, learn to explain the value of your proposition to the health sector and how to navigate the complex NHS landscape.

This intensive, fully funded training programme is suitable for early to mid-stage healthcare / life sciences innovators or entrepreneurs, (from clinical, lived experience or commercial backgrounds), who are seeking support for a health-based product or service. Products / services must have the potential to improve patient care, reduce NHS costs and help us to live healthier lives.

Run in partnership with SETSquared – the global no. 1 university business incubator ­– the HIP has been running since 2015 and was created to specifically address the needs of healthcare innovators and cover core skills in entrepreneurship. The programme delivers high quality coaching, mentoring, and specialist healthcare innovation business development support.

Upon completion of the programme, you will be able to identify the optimum customer base for your business, explain the value of your proposition to the health sector and understand how to navigate the NHS as a marketplace.

An interactive and immersive experience, the programme will take place over five virtual half days between Monday 21 November and Monday 28 November. All learning sessions will be delivered virtually (held in the mornings of 21, 22, 24 and 25 November). Optional afternoon networking and 1:1 mentor-sessions will also be available. A fifth and final day of face-to-face pitching and presenting will take place in-person on Monday 28 November in Bristol.

Priority will be given to applicants employed in the geographical boundaries of the West of England AHSN. This includes Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon, Wiltshire. Applications from across the rest of the south of England are also welcome.

Find out more and apply here
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