Alder Hey Innovation Centre has an open innovative portal focused on sourcing innovative solutions, to solve current healthcare challenges. We welcome innovative technologies and solutions from external companies that can help offer solutions to our present needs and work collaboratively with us.
During the height of the pandemic the portal was successfully deployed to provide an alternative supplies and COVID-19 supplies service to the region. We collaborated with the Innovation Agency and Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership’s COVID-19 Supply Response Team (CSR Team) to allow all needs from local Trusts and all alternative supplier solutions to be directed, collated and assessed in one place in a consistent manner and matched with the local needs and relevant contacts.
Our portal will focus on Alder Hey’s current needs. This may range from clinical to non-clinical problems that affect our patients, staff, families and those in the community. Our high priority needs will be published and we welcome companies who can help us solve these needs with specific technical solutions. We are open to accepting solutions that are not market ready and working with companies to collaboratively further develop their technologies to help them achieve this. In the future we hope to expand the offer and use of the portal to the wider region and allowing more hospitals and staff to benefit from this opportunity.
