Our international successes include :
• Reaching more than 100 delegates from Healthtech companies who attended our two events in partnership with ABHI , Eastern AHSN and UCLPartners . They focused on getting ‘ export ready ’ and understanding the Middle East healthcare market .
• Engaging 60 attendees for our webinar introducing Taiwan MedTech SMEs to the NHS .
• Establishing a partnership between Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Oslo Hospital and engaging with 10 Norwegian SMEs after attending and presenting at a Norwegian medtech conference .
• Playing a key role in the development of the Leeds Israel Innovation Gateway , alongside Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Leeds Local Enterprise Partnership , which launched in Tel Aviv in May .
• Delivering our first Propel @ YH Boot Camp for US companies , which has led to a partnership with Nordic Innovation to run a Nordic version in September 2022 .
Connecting our innovators with the NHS
We believe that our international work should reflect our domestic objectives where we recognise the key priorities within the system and look to the whole market for solutions . A clear priority this year has been supporting our NHS partners in addressing the challenge of restoring services and reducing the elective backlog caused by the pandemic .
Given our experience of working with healthcare innovators both in the UK and internationally , we can help to identify the right solutions that can improve patient care and ease the pressure on frontline staff .
And this is where our portfolio of business accelerators plays a crucial role .
Our Propel @ YH Net Zero and our Propel @ YH Boot Camp initiatives , both spin-offs of our flagship Propel @ YH accelerator , supported a variety of SMEs to access the UK healthcare market through a programme of masterclasses , one-to-ones and a range of advice and guidance . Our priorities within these programmes were focussed on the needs of the health and social care system , and therefore both sustainability and health inequalities were areas we sought to address through these programmes of work .
We were also proud to collaborate with our fellow northern AHSNs ( Health Innovation Manchester , the Innovation Agency North West Coast and AHSN North East and North Cumbria ) to deliver this year ’ s
Digital North accelerator , providing support to regional digital health technology firms in the adoption and spread of proven innovations within the healthcare system . Successful solutions are then guided towards national adoption through the Innovation Exchange programme .
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