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The HRC in Community healthcare works to improve healthcare outside of hospitals, in the community and interface care, by developing, evaluating and implementing innovative health technologies. Its aim is to improve patient outcomes and reduce pressure on hospital services. The centre operates across community healthcare to identify the clinical needs of clinical staff, patients and carers for technologies that could improve care delivery, life quality and access to care. It works to support the development of appropriate technologies where unmet needs are identified, and robustly evaluates new and existing technologies before deployment, to ensure that they are safe to use and that users understand their strengths and limitations.
About HRC's theme
Community healthcare is an umbrella term to represent a range of medical, nursing, and rehabilitative services that are provided outside of hospitals, usually in patients' homes, clinics, schools, or community hubs. These services aim to keep people healthy, manage long-term conditions, and support independent living for people of all ages and with a wide range of clinical and support needs.
Support provided
- Expert clinical input from day one.
- Regulatory and commercial guidance.
- Access to diverse test beds across primary care, care homes, and community settings.
- Support with study design and funding applications.
- Efficient evaluation through innovative platform studies.
- Implementation expertise to drive NHS adoption.
- Reducing burden through smart diagnostics and monitoring.
- Reimagining community-based care for children.
- Revolutionising early detection and diagnosis.
- Enabling new models of virtual and home-based care.
- Enhancing holistic care for underserved populations.
- Respiratory
- Infections and acute paediatrics
- Cancer diagnosis
- Care homes and care in the home
- Mental health and equitable access to care
- HealthTech evaluation methodology
- Need-led device development and regulatory
- Digital healthtech
Find out more
HRC website
HRC LinkedIn
Contact details
HRC Address & Postcode
NIHR HRC in Community healthcare
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Radcliffe Primary Care Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Host Trust and University
Hosted by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Oxford (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
Available support
Technology Readiness Levels supported
1 - 9
How to access support
Innovators can register interest via an Industry Contact Form on the HRC website, which gathers information about the organisation, the readiness of their technology and its intended uses. Innovations that are within their remit and of interest are followed up with a meeting to discuss in more detail.