Grow Digital Health Midlands, a collaboration between Health Innovation East Midlands and Health Innovation West Midlands, will launch a neighbourhood health innovation event and funding opportunity, offering Midlands-based NHS and public sector organisations the chance to bid for funding of up to £20,000.

This event and fund aim to support health and care systems with a key ambition within the 10-Year Health Plan for England, focusing on the strategic shift of moving care from hospital to the community, creating a neighbourhood health service.

Neighbourhood health promotes a new approach to working for the NHS, local government, social care, and their partners, where integrated working becomes the norm rather than the exception – bringing care into local communities.

Grow Digital Health Midlands supports UK technology companies to develop and spread digital healthcare innovations within the NHS and care sector, addressing some of today’s most pressing challenges. The latest cohort includes eight high-potential companies with solutions that are ready to deploy.

The virtual event, taking place on Thursday 22 January, 1:00pm–2:30pm, will spotlight the innovators on the programme and demonstrate how their solutions align with key components of the neighbourhood health model. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear presentations from:

1. ApptHealth – helps improve the management of multimorbid patients by optimising patient engagement and streamlining appointments.
2. Hope for the community – an evidence-based digital self-management course for people living with any long-term condition, and their carers.
3. AirEmail – optimises email management for healthcare professionals, automatically flagging patient-related messages for action and reduces staff ‘technostress’.
4. Kaenect – streamlines GP-to-pharmacy referrals, enabling patients to seamlessly book consultations at their community pharmacy.
5. Heidi Health – Ambient AI technology that accurately transcribes patient consultations in real-time, generating structured clinical notes, referral letters, and discharge summaries instantly.
6. Suvera – Virtual clinics to support people with long-term conditions helping to improve outcomes whilst streamlining and increasing capacity in primary care.
7. Expertcare – A clinical decision support tool that makes personalised, evidence-based treatment recommendations for hypertensive patients, saving time and improving outcomes.
8. Surgfit – a remote pre-operative patient assessment system allowing 24/7 remote monitoring outside of a hospital setting.

View here for more on each innovation.

The event will also mark the launch of the Neighbourhood Health Innovation Fund, offering awards of up to £20,000 to support the implementation and trialling of these solutions within health and care settings.

More information

Each week, from 17th November – 19th January 2026, we will be releasing weekly innovator spotlights on each innovation across our social media channels.

Visit the dedicated area on the Health Innovation East website for more information on the programme and the innovators here.

For queries, please contact healthinnovation-em@nottingham.ac.uk