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The HRC in Emergency and acute care aims to transform emergency and acute care by developing and deploying new technologies for the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease, and embedding these technologies into everyday clinical practice. The team work with patients and innovators to co-develop technologies and generate the evidence required to achieve adoption in the health and care system at pace and scale. This ensures new HealthTech solutions are sustainable, benefit all communities, and support fair and equal access to healthcare, helping to improve health and wellbeing for all.
About HRC's theme
Acute care is a branch of secondary health care (hospital settings) where patients receive active, short-term treatment for a severe injury, illness, urgent medical conditions, or recovery from surgery. This HRC also includes the interface between primary and community care, such as GP surgeries and care homes, ambulatory services and accident and emergency departments, which together form the link between primary and secondary care.
Support provided
- Providing expert advice, linking with healthcare professionals, setting up ‘Key Opinion Leader’ panels.
- Understanding the scale of the healthcare problem a technology aims to address in terms of health and the population.
- Concept validation and identifying the ‘use case’ and care pathway that the novel technology will fit into.
- Regulatory guidance and strategy development.
- Establishment of project teams including clinical, patient, academic and regulatory partners as appropriate.
- Grant writing support, being a partner on a collaborative application.
- Project oversight and direction.
- Health economics – what is the benefit to patients, healthcare, and the economy?
- Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE).
- Design, set up and running of clinical studies to establish diagnostic accuracy, clinical validation and clinical utility.
- Rapid set up and delivery of diagnostic accuracy studies. You can find out more in our VALIDATE case study.
- Identifying barriers to adoption and looking at implementation science and behaviour change.
- Signposting within the NHS, Greater Manchester research and innovation ecosystem, local and national NIHR infrastructure and HRC Network.
- Rapid set up and delivery of diagnostic accuracy studies. You can find out more in our VALIDATE case study.
Community, primary and the community-secondary care interface - Secondary care
- Understanding the problem
- Evaluating the solution
- Care pathway analysis
- In-vitro diagnostics
- Wearables
- Health economics
- Use case identification
- Trial design
- Budget impact analysis
- Trial based cost effectiveness
- Evaluation using observational designs
- Electronic health records
- Quasi experimental designs
- Understanding the value proposition
- Model based cost effectiveness analysis
- Stated preference methods (discrete choice experiments)
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Please review the resource page on our website with training sessions and useful resources: Resources - Manchester HRC NIHR
Find out more
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Contact details
HRC Address & Postcode
HRC in Emergency and acute care
CityLabs
1.0 Nelson Street
Manchester
M13 9NQ
Host Trust and University
Hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundaiton Trust, in partnership with The University of Manchester
Available support
Technology Readiness Levels supported
3 - 8
How to access support
Innovators can register their interest with the HRC by completing an Enquiry Form or by contacting them by email. If your request is within the remit, innovators will be asked to complete an Innovation Assessment Form. This is reviewed by a prioritisation panel, which provides a feedback report. The project plan is then developed if the company wants to move forward with the recommendations.