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Our Office for Life Sciences-commissioned innovator support led to the adoption and spread of eleven innovations across healthcare, education and independent healthcare settings in Yorkshire and the Humber in the last year.

We worked with NHS and system partners to support the implementation of proven innovations in real-world settings, enabling their use in routine practice and supporting wider spread across the region.

Our focus is on moving innovations from early adoption into sustained use at scale, supporting service transformation and improved outcomes.

We take a structured, system-led approach:

• Facilitating partnerships between clinicians, system leaders, and innovators
• Supporting implementation and assessing impact within real-world pathways
• Enabling spread and shared learning across organisations and systems

Health and care systems continue to face increasing pressure from rising demand, workforce constraints and financial challenges. Supporting the adoption of innovation helps to:

• Improve patient outcomes and experience
• Enable new models of care
• Increase productivity and efficiency
• Deliver sustainable system-wide impact

The following innovations demonstrate how this approach is translating into real-world impact, with solutions being implemented, adopted, and scaled across Yorkshire and the Humber.

Innovations include:

• Steriwave: orthopaedic digital treatment support tool, implemented at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust and embedded within hip fracture pathways, with plans to scale across orthopaedics.
• Pinpoint: diagnostic support tool enabling earlier cancer detection, deployed across Mid Yorkshire and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, improving diagnostic decision-making at scale.
• Concentric: digital consent platform implemented at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, introduced into live clinical pathways aligned to national digital and patient-centred priorities.
• HAPPI: digital personalised video messages sent to patients after surgery, deployed across Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, reducing unnecessary post-operative follow-up appointments.
• JAMAPP: digital patient engagement tool, progressing through procurement within Leeds maternity services to support improved communication and care delivery.
• AVT: real-time translation tool, trialled within the Leeds Teaching Hospitals emergency department, enabling safer and more equitable communication in clinical care.
• Lucida Pi: AI-supported diagnostic imaging tool, implemented across Leeds and Sheffield hospitals to support interpretation of prostate cancer scans in clinical practice.
• Feebris: a digital remote monitoring solution enabling early identification of patient deterioration, being trialled within Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Peili Vision: digital ADHD support platform, rolled out across Leeds schools with plans to expand across the wider ICB.
• Careology: digital cancer care pathway platform, implemented following Cancer Alliance innovation funding, supporting patient monitoring and improved care coordination.
• Inkwell tattoo sensor: wearable post-operative monitoring technology, being onboarded in collaboration with Circle Health Group

Neville Young Director of Enterprise and Innovation, Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber said:

“Over the last year, we’ve worked with innovators and healthcare partners in the NHS, education and social care to spread proven innovations across the region, helping to improve health outcomes for patients while supporting more efficient use of NHS resources. It’s great to be able to support solutions as they move from development into real-world use, ensuring more people can benefit from innovation.”

Ari Billig, UK Country Lead, Peili Vision, said:

 “We have really appreciated Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber’s support for our pilots in the Yorkshire area. They not only provided us with incredibly helpful introductions but were also incredibly useful in helping us refine our offer and ensure that it fit well into the necessary care pathways.”