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WORLD LEADING BUSINESS SUPPORT

HEALTH INNOVATION
PROGRAMME

A programme for innovators with an idea for a health-based product or service

21, 22, 24, 25 November, online, half-days & 28 November in-person Bristol (Venue TBC)

Applications are now closed for this programme.

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A programme specifically tailored to healthcare innovators

Understand the NHS as a marketplace

Get feedback from experienced healthcare professionals

A chance to get continuing support to further develop your proposition

About the Workshop

Following on from the success of previous programmes together with the West of England Academic Health Science Network we are once again providing a comprehensive business support programme to healthcare and life sciences ventures.

This is an immersive and interactive hybrid training course, which will use Strategyzer’s Business Model Canvas as a basis for exploring and developing your business plan. But don’t worry if you’re not familiar with this model, with the West of England AHSN, we’ll take you through it step-by-step. This programme aims to give you a really effective tool to test the validity of your business model and understand and explain the value of your proposition to the NHS and health sector.

Participation in this event is free of charge to delegates and is funded by the West of England AHSN.

More about the sessions

Hands-on and experiential, the programme is made up of short bursts of lecture content, exercises and case studies, individual and group work. You’ll be assigned an experienced mentor who will act as your support and sounding board throughout the five days.

The programme will help you to build up a picture of the NHS/UK Health Sector as a marketplace, to enable you to identify the optimum customer base for your business.

It culminates with the opportunity to present your Business Model Canvas to a panel of healthcare experts, who will provide invaluable feedback for you to take your business forward.

Developing personal skills

This is a personal skills development course that aims to enable individuals to take well-formed proposals to business realisation.

You will have the opportunity to learn core skills in entrepreneurship, learn more about the health sector in the UK and develop skills in the areas of:

market segmentation and understanding the NHS as a marketplace
understanding the all-important problem/solution fit
choosing revenue models
understanding an investor’s view
evaluating your proposition
hints and tips on how to pitch successfully

Who should apply?

The programme is designed for clinicians, healthcare practitioners, innovators and entrepreneurs with an idea for a health-based product or service, founders of early-stage ventures, more experienced entrepreneurs launching a new health-based product/venture and healthcare practitioners.

Priority will be given to applicants employed in the West of England AHSN geographical boundaries which covers Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. Applications from South West, Wessex & KSS AHSN geographical boundaries will also be considered.

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Candidate Criteria

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West of England Health Innovation Programme

Unsure if this programme is for you?

Find out how previous participants found the Health Innovation Programme. Get a snapshot of the businesses they are developing and what elements of the programme were particularly useful to them.

Thank you so much to SETsquared, the West of England Academic Health Science Network and the South West Academic Health Science Network for an amazing week, we learnt so much valuable information. I would recommend this programme to any innovators who are trying to get their technology adopted by the NHS.

Josh Lewis, Chief Operating Officer, Denton Physio Technology

An amazing opportunity – so grateful. Personally, professionally and as an organisation, we’ve moved forward!

Debs Carter

It really makes you analyse your potential customers, the value your innovation will bring to them and why they might be prepared to pay for it. The mentors were amazing and will be useful contacts going forward – I found the pitch training particularly valuable. It also makes you think about putting the infrastructure in place to scale your business.

Amy Manning

Truly Excellent. A 4-day MBA. Much needed and much valued.

Mike Griffin

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