Health Innovation Leeds Incubator has launched a new healthtech and patient care innovator to improve patient care in the city.
Health Innovation Leeds Incubator has launched to tie together healthtech innovation projects to ultimately improve patient care in the city and beyond.
The move will see collaboration across Leeds, combining Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds City Council, the University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University and Nexus.
They will work together to support more than 70 of West Yorkshire’s healthtech businesses to overcome barriers to growth and focus on areas such as AI in healthcare, NHS adoption, regulation, product development and investment readiness.
Reflecting on the momentum building across the county’s healthtech community, Richard Paxman, chair of the West Yorkshire HealthTech Cluster, said: “Innovation takes grit. It takes belief when things get complex. And it takes a region willing to back bold ideas and the people behind them”.
The Health Innovation Leeds Incubator totalled £2 million and was launched at the Leeds Digital mini festival in May.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is already one of the UK’s leading research-active NHS Trusts. One way it shows its commitment to innovation is through the Innovation Pop Up, its space designed to connect clinicians, researchers, industry and entrepreneurs to bring ideas and technologies into healthcare.
