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
PUBLIC AND PATIENT 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
Innovation Pathway
Our innovation pathway informs and guides how we develop and commercialise technologies for paediatrics and child health.
Our team can support your innovation at any stage of the pathway.
IDENTIFY
- Identify and validate unmet needs
- Establish team
- Intellectual property and regulation strategies
- Involvement of children, young people, and families
DEVELOP
- Product development
- Testing and clinical trials
- Human factors
- Involvement of children, young people, and families
ADOPT
- Regulation and governance
- Procurement and commissioning
- Involvement of children, young people, and families