The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has announced the first three winners of the innovation challenge prizes, which were launched in December 2010. The winners are: NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes – First Winners was last modified: August 9th, 2011 by hscinnovations
Read more ...The 2011 IET Innovation Awards, including a Healthcare Technologies category, are now open for entries. Administered by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), this is a very high profile awards programme that celebrates the products, technologies and processes that lead the way in engineering innovation. The competition is IET Innovation Awards 2011 – Healthcare
Read more ...From time to time companies ask HSC Innovations how to sell into the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care bodies. Although HSC Innovations does occasionally buy relatively low value professional services, we do not generally buy healthcare products and services. The following links may assist companies: Procurement in NI Health and Social Care was last
Read more ...The 2011 Bupa Foundation Awards are now open to entries. £15,000 will be allocated for completed research and/or development that has been conducted over the past three years into each of the four research themes. Bupa Foundation Awards for Completed R&D was last modified: June 2nd, 2011 by hscinnovations
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HSC Innovations has published the April 2011 issue of its newsletter, which is aimed at members of staff in the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trusts. Newsletter Published – April 2011 was last modified: May 23rd, 2011 by hscinnovations
Read more ...The (England) Department of Health’s Challenge Prizes were launched in December 2010 and offer rewards for ideas that tackle some of the most challenging areas of healthcare. Seven challenges has now been posted: NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes was last modified: April 4th, 2011 by hscinnovations
Read more ...A summary of a range of model agreements available to support research activities in the HSC trusts is now available in the Library section the HSC Innovations website. The brief includes: mICRA, mCTA, CRO mCTA, mCIA, CRO mCIA, mNCA, Lambert and Brunswick templates. Links are provided to further information from the publishers of each model.
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The £25k Awards – the search for the next big thing! The £25k entrepreneurship contest is a commercial educational experience designed to encourage researchers and individuals to act on their talents, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow’s leading commercial opportunities. The programme helps identify, qualify, prepare and present the best knowledge-based ideas and intellectual property
Read more ...New agreement launched to streamline research collaboration between life sciences industry, universities and the NHS Research into new and improved treatment for patients received a major boost today when the government announced the launch of a new model agreement between the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, universities and the NHS to streamline the research contracting process.
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The new issue of R&D Today, published by the R&D Division of the HSC Public Health Agency (previously the HSC R&D Office), profiles the work supported by Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care R&D fund. HSC R&D Today Issue 14 -Winter 2011 is available here. R&D Today – Winter 2011 Issue was last modified: April 12th, 2011
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