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Innovators supported by our team and fellow health innovation networks will be joining our stand at the biggest health event of the year – NHS ConfedExpo on 10-11 June, taking place in Manchester.

Leeds-based PinPoint Data Science which uses AI in early cancer detection and system optimisation, will be among 16 innovators showcasing innovations which are helping to deliver on the ambitions set out in the 10 Year Health Plan and Life Sciences Sector Plan.

These innovations are transforming local patient outcomes while delivering on national health priorities, boosting NHS productivity and driving economic growth.

Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber Chief Executive Richard Stubbs is speaking in three sessions:

Wednesday 10 June

12-1pm: BME Network Lunch: Anti-racism is improvement

4-4.40pm: Devolution: An unfinished revolution

Thursday 11 June

8.30-9.30am: ‘What does a pro-productivity NHS look like?’

Experts from across the Health Innovation Network including Yorkshire and Humber will be on hand to provide advice and support for anyone looking to understand more about how to develop, build and scale innovations within the NHS.

Delegates can book a slot with one of our experts to learn how we provide support, whether from within the NHS looking for a solution to a challenge; or from a business in need of help navigating the NHS, accessing funding or scaling-up.

Also on the Health Innovation Network stand will be our industry partners:

• NHS Innovation Service: The NHS Innovation Service offers coordinated, expert support to speed up the journey from idea to NHS adoption. By connecting innovators with the right expertise, it streamlines development, reduces duplication, and helps impactful solutions reach patients faster. With expert support, the service makes navigating the NHS simpler, more transparent and more efficient.

• NHS Innovation Accelerator: The NHS Innovation Accelerator accelerates proven, high-impact health innovations by connecting innovators, NHS leaders and patients, overcoming adoption barriers to scale solutions that improve outcomes, workforce sustainability and system efficiency across the NHS and wider care system nationally.

• SBRI Healthcare: SBRI Healthcare provides funding and support to high potential, early-stage innovations to test technical and commercial feasibility whilst generating robust clinical evidence.

Innovators exhibiting alongside PinPoint will be:

• getUBetter: getUBetter provides digital self-management for all common musculoskeletal conditions and womens health – across an entire Integrated care system. We help patients to trust their recovery, have the confidence to self-manage and optimise healthcare use.

• SAH Diagnostics: SAH Diagnostics is an HSJ Gold Award-winning UK healthcare provider delivering end-to-end diagnostic and treatment pathways. We support NHS and private partners with community-based services, mobile units, and digital innovation that cut waiting times and improve outcomes.

• Nonacus: Nonacus focuses on liquid biopsy and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies to improve cancer diagnosis, offering hereditary cancer testing services and GALEAS Bladder, a sensitive, non-invasive urine test for detection and monitoring.

• PreActiv: PreActiv is a digital solution using smart technology to provide dynamic, individualised perihabilitation for surgical and cancer patients. By optimising patient health, PreActiv reduces complications and shortens hospital stays; supporting Trusts to meet government guidance.

• Heim Health: Heim is the intelligent workforce optimisation and delivery platform for community providers that unlocks productivity, giving community teams a third of their time back and ROI within a few months.

• Soar Beyond Ltd: We accelerate the adoption of medicines & innovation by building workforce competence, simplifying implementation, and unlocking system value – powered by medicines and pharmacist expertise.

• Mölnlycke Health Care: Mölnlycke is a global medical solutions leader focused on infection prevention. We support the NHS by adopting innovative technologies such as Steriwave to reduce antimicrobial use, improve productivity, and deliver safer, more efficient care.

• iFAST Diagnostics: UK-based iFAST are addressing the critical problem of antimicrobial resistance with a novel rapid phenotypic AST platform. iFAST provides MIC results in under 3 hours, from positive blood cultures, raw urine or direct from colony.

• Assuric: Assuric is the platform for digital health compliance, assurance and governance. Assuric helps both healthtech companies and healthcare organisations with clinical safety, information governance, data protection and medical device requirements.

• Dignity Care Network: Dignity Care is a women’s health company improving miscarriage care. We developed the Miscarriage Collection Cradle, a patented Medical Device for dignified, reliable pregnancy tissue collection, enabling safe home or community management while reducing hospital admissions and surgical intervention.

• Luscii: System-wide remote patient monitoring platform for long or short-term conditions via Virtual Wards, Community, Primary Care and Selfcare models. Patients submit vital sign readings, symptom questionnaire responses and information to their care team via an app. A clinical dashboard displays trends, threshold alerts and patient communication via videocall and messaging.

• Tellmi: Evidence based, pre-moderated peer and counsellor support app for improved mental health. Commissioned by the NHS and Public Health for young people aged 11+.

• Healthtech-1: On a mission to unlock access to healthcare by navigating patients to the right place first time, while automating admin for 26% of GP practices in England.

• Flok Health: Flok Health are a CQC-approved AI MSK provider, delivering full NHS care pathways with an AI physiotherapist for exceptional patient outcomes, 0-day RTT, and significant cost savings for the NHS.

• Predictive Health Intelligence: Our mission is to end the late diagnosis of chronic liver disease.  We developed hepatoSIGHT®, a case-finding platform that analyses historic blood tests to identify liver disease earlier, enabling timely intervention and improving patient outcomes.
• PocDoc: PocDoc provides rapid smartphone-enabled health checks to identify people at risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease.

Find out more on the NHS ConfedExpo website: https://www.nhsconfedexpo.org/