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Health Innovation North West Coast is a partner in a successful SBRI Health Care Urgent and Emergency Care grant competition, worth a total of £476,500, for pilot point-of-care testing for children in emergency departments

For leaders across the North West, this is a pivotal moment to champion partnerships, foster grassroots engagement, and embed system working to make the sustainable changes that will be required of us in the very near future.

Health Innovation North West Coast is proud to be a partner in a successful SBRI Health Care grant for digital stroke rehabilitation delivery in Lancashire and South Cumbria and Cheshire and Merseyside. The total value of the grant is £494,000 and will be shared by the bid partners to complete their deliverables during a 12- month programme.

The finalists have been announced for the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2025, recognising the best innovators and researchers in health and care in Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Health Innovation North West Coast is a new member of EIT Health Ireland-UK to spread new solutions, improve patient outcomes and stimulate economic growth.

Our International team is supporting Agora Labs, a leading health-tech startup, to explore: opportunities for its secure clinical data platform and the potential benefits it could bring to the NHS.

Children living in fuel poverty in St Helens are being given vital health support thanks to new use of data.

As Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 gets under way, Alice Fletcher, our Programme Manager for Mental Health, describes our novel approach to improving services for children and young people in our region. You can read more in our Innovation Insights report: A Service Model for Children and Young People’s Mental Health.

Senior health and care leaders in Cheshire and Merseyside are collaborating to ensure innovations deliver the greatest possible impact on services.

The search is under way for the best researchers and innovators in our region with the launch of the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2025.