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Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI)
APTs are invited to participate in the Department of Health (DH) SBRI by identifying key healthcare challenges that could potentially form the basis of SBRI competitions.
APTs are invited to participate in the Department of Health (DH) SBRI by identifying key healthcare challenges that could potentially form the basis of SBRI competitions.
Background
The DH has committed £20 million on SBRI, which is a pan-government initiative aimed at promoting UK economic growth whilst addressing public sector needs. SBRI is a process that enables the public sector to engage with innovative businesses to develop novel technological solutions to existing problems. It aims to drive and accelerate innovation by supporting technology based companies through the stages of feasibility and prototyping which are typically hard to fund. Using the power of public sector procurement, the process operates under the EU Pre-commercial Procurement legal framework through open competitions to industry.
Identifying SBRI competition challenges
The DH would like to invite APTs to participate in this initiative initially by identifying key healthcare needs in the NHS that could form the basis of competition challenges. We are looking for those areas, both clinical and non clinical, where technological solutions could potentially be developed to deliver a step change in performance and where existing solutions are inadequate. We need areas where industry suppliers could participate in the creation of the solution and where the solution would not purely be service redesign or process change.
Subsequent to putting forward ideas for SBRI competitions, the DH would also encourage trusts to participate in the process by acting as sponsors, potentially being trial sites for the resultant technologies.
Please kindly submit ideas for SBRI competition challenges by completing and returning the attached template by Saturday 31 March 2012 to: sue.smalley@cmu.nhs.uk. In the meantime, further information on SBRI and previous challenges can be found at http://www.innovateuk.org/sbri
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