Our Services
We partner with health-tech innovators to turn ideas into real-world impact. Our Living Labs give start-ups the chance to test and validate solutions in real NHS environments, reducing risk and proving value. By working with teams that share our values, we scale innovations that deliver lasting benefits for patients and communities.
Innovation Partnerships
We work with health-tech companies, start-ups, and research teams to co-design, test, and scale new mental health solutions. Each collaboration combines NHS expertise, clinical insight, and academic excellence to ensure innovations are practical, evidence-based, and ready to deliver lasting improvements in patient care and wellbeing across the NHS.
Real-World Testing (Living Labs)
Our Living Labs offer safe, controlled NHS environments for testing digital tools, devices, and care models. Partners can evaluate usability, safety, and effectiveness in real clinical settings. With direct feedback from patients and clinicians, we help innovators generate robust real-world evidence and accelerate adoption within NHS services.
Clinical & Research Mentorship
We provide expert mentorship from NHS clinicians and researchers to support every stage of development. Partners gain guidance on clinical safety, trial design, evidence generation, and regulatory compliance. This ensures innovations are clinically sound, ethically developed, and aligned with NHS standards for quality and patient outcomes.
Data Access & Insights
Through secure and ethical processes, we enable partners to access anonymised NHS datasets for research, AI training, and evaluation. Our data team supports hypothesis testing, outcome measurement, and validation. This helps innovators strengthen their evidence base and demonstrate measurable value in improving mental health care delivery.
Implementation & Adoption Support
We help innovators move from prototype to practice by guiding them through NHS adoption pathways. From IT integration and service design to workforce engagement and procurement navigation, we ensure innovations are embedded smoothly, sustainably, and effectively within existing systems and care models across the NHS.
Policy, Evaluation & Funding Guidance
Our team offers tailored advice on NHS policy, health economics, and funding frameworks. We support partners with cost-benefit analyses, grant applications, and willingness-to-pay studies. This ensures innovations are financially viable, aligned with national priorities, and positioned for long-term success within the healthcare ecosystem.
How we help accelerators and start-ups
We embed NHS expertise and real world validation directly into the journey of accelerators and start ups. This includes clinical and real world evidence mentorship, NHS orientation and introductions across primary, secondary and community care, and patient and carer co design through focused workshops. We also support real world pilots in NHS services, provide implementation assistance such as IT integration and pathway adoption, and offer policy and procurement guidance on funding, willingness to pay and adoption routes.
Why it matters
These activities help de risk portfolios by validating innovations in real NHS environments, boost investor confidence through robust evidence and clinical credibility, and increase adoption potential by aligning new solutions with NHS priorities and procurement needs.