The Sheffield Young Person and Healthcare Transition Conference “Digital Healthcare in the 21st Century” will take place in-person and online on Tuesday 6th October 2026.
This week, the NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health team are pleased to share our latest paper on co-creating paediatric health technologies with children, young people, and families.
Earlier this month, we were delighted to lead the inaugural NIHR HRC Network Paediatric Working Group meeting here in Sheffield.
The deadline to submit an entry for this year’s Medipex NHS Innovation Awards & Showcase 2026 has been extended until Tuesday 14th April.
In partnership with Health Tech Enterprise (HTE), we are once again organising the Paediatric HealthTech Sprint, taking place on Tuesday, 02 June 2026, in Cambridge. Building on the success of last year’s event, we remain committed to driving innovation in child health as part of our work within the Mind and Body theme of the NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health.
We’re pleased to share that our newly launched education programme, Elevate2Innovate (E2I), has just completed a two-part series on “Involving Children, Young People, and Families in HealthTech Research and Innovation”.
The Medipex NHS Innovation Awards & Showcase 2026 will be held online on Wednesday 24th June to showcase the finalists and announce the winners, and registration is now open!
Help us close the age-based gap in the health technology sector and break down barriers to developing healthcare innovations for children and young people.
Earlier this year, we were pleased to get involved with a national school HealthTech competition that empowers young people to create, design, and develop solutions to unmet health needs.
In collaboration with Vesynta, the NIHR HRC PCH team recently led a series of workshops with specialist healthcare professionals to improve an innovative precision dosing tool, DosoLogic.