SBRI Healthcare, the NHS England funded initiative championed by the AHSN Network, has opened a new funding competition ‘Delivering a Net Zero NHS Clinical Innovation’.
The funding competition is open for innovations that can help transform carbon intensive areas of clinical care and complex care pathways. There are four specific challenge areas of focus: decarbonising surgical pathways, reducing waste in surgery and critical care, net zero personalised care, and tools to support the workforce to deliver net zero care.
Last year the first round of the programme supported 10 innovations, including:
- Elegant Design and Solutions Ltd – Envirolieve® – awarded £99,703: A novel delivery system to reduce Entonox consumption.
- Rutherford Research Ltd – Revolution-ZERO – awarded £ 99,689: Zero Waste, Zero Carbon, Circular Surgical Textiles – sustainable solutions to replace disposable PPE, drapes and other textiles.
- Green Rewards Limited – Jump – awarded £99,076: A healthcare specific carbon engagement tool.
- Primum Digital Limited – CrossCover – awarded £99,546: A range of web applications designed to assist clinicians in making the best low-carbon decisions for every patient encounter.
- Open Medical – ‘Pathpoint SurgiCare’ – awarded £99,556: A cloud-based workflow solution that covers the whole surgical patient pathway.
- YewMaker – MCF Classifier – awarded £83,370: A tool to support low-carbon decision-making in medicines procurement and prescription.
- Apian Limited – Project Angel – awarded £99,967: Using drones to deliver greener, faster and smarter healthcare to patients.
- TCC-CASEMIX Limited – PredictOR Carbon Analytics – awarded £97,364: Carbon registry to help clinicians and patients reduce carbon emmissions in surgical pathways.
- Ufonia – Dora – awarded £98,796: Autonomous telemedicine triage to increase the sustainability of hospital referrals where clinically appropriate.
- Concentric Health – awarded £99,175: Introducing carbon considerations into the shared decision-making process.
Round two of the programme is being funded by the Accelerated Access Collaborative, in partnership with Greener NHS and the AHSN Network.
The deadline for applications is 5 October 2022. To apply and find out more, please click here.
