HEALTHCARE BUSINESS AWARDS
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Awarded to the company who demonstrate how digital technologies were employed to enhance current service delivery or create new ways of delivering healthcare.
WINNER
XR Therapeutics
XR Therapeutics is a start-up company, spun out of Newcastle University, which has been based on over 9 years of clinical and academic research. Their innovative service combines traditional CBT with gradual exposure therapy to treat phobias and situation-specific anxiety. By combining state of the art VR technology with clinical expertise, XR Therapeutics can support people to live a life without limits.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Evergreen Life (Penguin)
For the development of a collaboration with the NHS that has or will have a major impact or benefit to both business performance and patient care.
WINNER
Definition Health
Definition Health provides industry-leading solutions to the adoption of digital healthcare with its innovative web-based apps designed to re-focus care back on the patient and optimise hospital workflows. Their secure two-way information exchange system offers patients personalised support and education at every stage of the journey, resulting in better patient outcomes, cost savings, increased efficiency and ultimately reducing surgery waiting lists.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Llusern Scientific
For maximising opportunities to develop new international markets or outstanding performance in other areas of international trade.
WINNER
Seda Pharmaceutical
Seda maximises value through integrated Pharmaceutical Development and Clinical Pharmacology expertise, enabling the rapid and efficient development of optimal medicinal products. Seda provides the experience and expertise found in the development functions of major pharmaceutical companies but with the speed and flexibility required by fast moving biotechs, and are also winners of the Department of International Trade’s UK Life Sciences Innovators Showcase.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Paxman
For the development of an innovative technology, design or process that has produced a major improvement in business performance or end-user benefit.
WINNER
Synopsis
Synopsis enables hospitals to manage the entire pre-operative assessment digitally, removing the paper trail, increasing data security, and delivering significant organisational benefits. Their platform supports hospitals to increase patient throughput and theatre utilisation whilst reducing cancellation rates and risk. The Synopsis platform has been used to complete over 300,000 digital pre-operative assessments, contributing to an average saving of £1.4m per NHS Trust, per annum.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Molendotech Ltd
For an achievement that has had a significant or vital impact on the company and the sector as a whole.
WINNER
Creo Medical
Creo Medical is an advanced energy, electrosurgical med-tech company that develops and commercialises technologies and medical devices that enable minimally invasive procedures. Their CROMA platform, powered by Kamaptive, their multi-patented, full-spectrum adaptive advanced energy source, provides clinicians with increased flexibility, precision and controlled surgical solutions. This technology, combined with the Group’s range of unique electrosurgical devices, is facilitating a paradigm shift from surgery to minimally invasive endoscopic treatment.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
EthOss Regeneration Ltd
Awarded to the company who demonstrate how the collaboration / partnership has or will enhance current service delivery or create new ways of delivering healthcare.
WINNER
Neuronostics and Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth (previously University of Exeter)
Supported by an Innovate UK award and two subsequent NIHR grants, Neuronostics have partnered with the University of Plymouth on the development of patented digital biomarker, BioEP. BioEP is a cloud-based platform with applications in the diagnosis, prognosis and management of epilepsy, indicating the risk of future seizures from routinely acquired clinical imaging data such as EEG.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
NuVision Biotherapies and College of Health and Life Sciences, Optometry & Vision Science Research Group (OVSRG), Aston University
For newly established companies (trading for up to 3 years) in the medical and healthcare sector, that show a promising future.
WINNER
MetalloBio
MetalloBio is a University of Sheffield spin-out company developing a novel antimicrobial platform technology to both treat and prevent pathogenic bacterial infections. The platform is being developed as a systemic antimicrobial and a coating for medical devices. The compounds that underpin the platform are entirely novel, active on resistant pathogens and, when incorporated into polymeric materials, the coatings are fifteen times more active than any coating available on the market.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Copner Biotech Ltd
Spirit Health Group Ltd
Spirit Health is one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK, developing innovative products and services that empower people to take control of their own health. Spirit Health combine health and social care experience with technological brilliance to deliver CliniTouch Vie, their innovative digital health platform. The group has been recognised as one of technology’s 50 Best Companies to Work For in 2021, as well as being named in the UK’s top 100 best mid-sized companies.
Synopsis ( Part of Intouch with health)
Neuronostics
Tutum Medical
TUTUM Medical is a spin-out company from TBG Solutions - an engineering company providing test capability on manufactured products to large corporate companies. Their R&D department works in collaboration with prime customers for trials and analysis of results before going live to the market. TUTUM Medical was created as a result of one of these collaborative projects with Sheffield Children’s Hospital. TUTUM Medical focuses on partnering with NHS organisations to solve problems and improve patient care.
CaptureStroke
Liesiant Delta Wellbeing
Award Sponsored by
PowerBreathe
Inspiratory muscle training with POWERbreathe has been scientifically proven to strengthen your breathing muscles and is often dubbed as being like a ‘set of dumbbells for your lungs’. In 2021, POWERbreathe was recognized by the WHO as being beneficial for the recovery of Covid-19 and a major clinical trial study published by the University of Colorado showed that the use of POWERbreathe can help to lower blood-pressure, reducing heart attack risk as well as boosting cognitive & physical performance. POWERbreathe now has over 30 distributors worldwide.
GBUK
Highforce Research
Earswitch Ltd
EarSwitch Ltd’s central ethos is to provide communication devices, and control of assistive devices (such as prosthetic arms for people with amputation, and arm exoskeletons for people with paralysis or stroke). However, its patented EarSwitch and related 5 further patents pending, expand its horizons far further; encompassing multiple platform technologies with global markets across multiple verticals.
Residual Barrier Technology Ltd
YourGene Health
Paxman Coolers
Paxman manufactures and supplies the world leading Paxman Scalp Cooling System (PSCS) that is used to minimise this side effect of chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA) - which is widely recognised as one of the most traumatic side effects associated with cancer treatment. Paxman has an 80% share of the global scalp-cooling market, with over 4,000 systems installed across 63 countries.
Docobo
Speechtools
Award Sponsored by
Somnus, scentific limited
The partnership between the Health Tech Hub at the University of the West of England and Somnus Scientific has combined the Hubs core application focus of biosensing, diagnostics and monitoring, and Somnus Scientifics extensive experience in clinical research, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. The collaboration has resulted in the development of personalized sedation and anaesthesia which is safer for patients and better for the environment than anaesthetic gases.
LightOx in collaboration with Radbound University, Netherlands
Surepulse medical in collaboration with 'The university of Nottingham'
Drill Surgeries
Drill Surgeries are developing innovative technology to reduce the excessive amounts of radiation used in the 10 million operations per year which use a metallic rod to bind broken bones. Drill Surgeries have created Artificial intelligence to provide a precision guide allowing surgeons to place everything in the right place, first time. Their technology makes for faster, safer and less invasive surgeries, and their working prototype leads to clinical trials in the next 12 months.
Heal.Med CIC
Neokare Nutrition Ltd
Award Sponsored by
Dignio
Dignio connects patients and healthcare professionals through a digital platform that disrupts the traditional way of delivering health services and opens up new possibilities for a more sustainable solution. The award-winning solution, offered in the UK since 2017, enables safe and cost-effective care, whilst at the same time liberating clinicians from routine tasks. The trusted blend of methodology and technology empowers each clinician to look after large numbers of individuals, and provides the individuals cared for with a sense of safety, sources of trusted information and support at their fingertips.
Mastercall Healthcare
Mastercall is an award-winning innovative Social Enterprise organisation, providing a range of patient-focused ‘out of hospital’ healthcare services across the North West of England.
CardMedic
CardMedic is an innovative and multi-award-winning app-based Software as a Service platform that improves communication between healthcare staff and patients across any barrier–including foreign language, deafness, blindness, cognitive impairment, or PPE.
EthOss Regeneration
Founded in 2013, EthOss Regeneration Ltd has progressed from market entry to one of the fastest growing dental businesses in Europe, with an international presence across 45 countries worldwide. The business’s success has been led by a truly cutting-edge product called EthOss® – a synthetic biomaterial used in dental implant surgery to encourage new bone growth. The product’s creation signified a shift in the dental bone grafting market – a sector that has remained static for decades.
Vernacare
Vernacare are a global supplier of innovative healthcare solutions, who create quality products that help to improve the lives of patients, residents and healthcare professionals whilst reducing the risk of healthcare-associated infections. As pioneers of safe and hygienic care, Vernacare continue to innovate and collaborate in the areas of single-use toileting systems, personal hygiene, cleaning, surgical solutions, harm reduction and vaccine solutions; continually pushing the standard of care forward.
The Binding Site
Binding Site provides specialist diagnostic products to clinicians and laboratory professionals worldwide. They are dedicated to improving patient lives and delivering innovative medical solutions that improve the diagnosis and management of blood cancers and immune system disorders, through education, collaboration and innovation.
Abingdon Health
Abingdon Health is a leading UK-based lateral flow contract development and manufacturing group. It manufactures innovative testing solutions across a range of industries and areas, such as clinical testing, animal health, and infectious diseases, including COVID-19. The Company is a fully integrated lateral flow business and can offer “an idea through to automated manufacturing” solution for its customers.
Neuronostics
Neuronostics is a fast-growing med-tech company, passionate about using research to improve the lives of people with epilepsy. They are developing a novel and potentially revolutionary seizure susceptibility assessment technology called #BioEP.
Feet Etc Consultancy
Feet Etc Consultancy developed a design and manufacturing process that simplifies the foot orthodotic process. Their online solution interfaces directly with the customer/patient and connects subjective interviews into a design and manufacturing total solution. The manufacturing solution also standardises the manual processes allowing for mass production.
Blue Tree Group
After witnessing the face mask shortage of 2020, Bluetree Group, a Yorkshire-based print specialist, stepped up to help our NHS by founding Bluetree Medical – the UK’s first manufacturer of much-needed Type IIR masks.
SureScreen Diagnostics
Family firm SureScreen Diagnostics has been at the heart of innovation – creating unique alcohol testing devices for ambulances, urine tests for GPs surgeries and now accurate tests for Covid-19. Their rapid antigen tests for Covid-19 were the first European ones to pass the validation in the laboratory by Public Health England and have been exported to 53 countries and dependencies. So far 30 million have been produced for the UK government.
West Midlands PPE Collective
The West Midlands PPE Collective came together during the COVID-19 pandemic and co-ordinated the Midlands’ response to national PPE requirements and shortages. Companies involved in this included Airguard Filters, Arrow Medical, Contechs Medical, Wearwell, Hospital Direct (HDI Group) in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB)/Birmingham Hospitals Alliance (BHA).
LUNAC Therapeutics
LUNAC Therapeutics are developing a first-in-class, next generation oral anticoagulant for the treatment and prevention of life-threatening thrombotic events, without the bleeding risk associated with current anticoagulants.
FluoretiQ is a multi-award winning, Bristol based MedTech start-up, founded in 2017. FluoretiQ have developed NANOPLEX™- a rapid diagnostic platform that identifies bacterial pathogens in 15 minutes. This is a ground breaking technology that enables clinicians to confidently use antibiotics at the very start of patient treatment. KnitRegen KnitRegen is a wearable MedTech company, creating the next generation smart garments and technology for neurological recovery. Their patent-pending smart textiles deliver state-of-the-art muscle stimulation, providing long-term input to neural pathways, influencing recovery of movement.