WORK WITH US

WORK WITH US

Collaborate With Us

Our team collaborate with industry experts, businesses, healthcare professionals, researchers, as well as children, young people, and families.

If you are looking to partner with us to develop a technology for paediatrics or child health, please complete our innovation support request form.

GUIDANCE

Read our guidance before completing the form to ensure your request is within our remit

FORM

Complete our innovation support request form to tell us about your technology

RESOURCES

Newsletters, peer-reviewed publications, funding calls, reports, and case studies

FAQs

Find answers to our most frequently asked questions

Support We Offer

Our team are able to support innovations for paediatrics and child health that align with our five research themes:

  • Early Life
  • Long-Term Conditions in Childhood
  • Transition
  • Mind-Body Integration
  • Child Health AI Network

Please note that we usually cannot provide significant and ongoing support without funding. This funding is normally obtained by our team being written into funding applications as collaborators or subcontractors.

FUNDING

Our team can advise on and support funding applications

KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

Our knowledge centre provides an extensive repository of resources for those aiming to technologies for paediatrics and child health

PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT

We work closely with children, young people, and families during every stage of the innovation pathway

ADVICE FROM EXPERT CLINICIANS

Our theme leads provide expert guidance to ensure innovations address key priority areas

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Our team has extensive experience managing projects across academia, healthcare, and industry

ACCESS TO NHS AND NIHR INFRASTRUCTURE

We work across NHS and NIHR infrastructure and can help you find the right organisations to work with

TESTING & CLINICAL TRIALS

We can advise on and support the rapid clinical evaluation of medical technologies in the NHS

STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATIONS

Our team has extensive networks across healthcare, industry, and academia, and can help you find the right people to collaborate with

REGULATIONS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

We can advise on regulatory guidance and intellectual property for medical technologies, in collaboration with the Centre for Healthcare Equipment & Technology Adoption (CHEATA) based in Nottingham

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