HealthTech Research Centre in Rehabilitation

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The HRC in Rehabilitation brings together researchers, companies, charities, patients and the public to develop technology which helps patients rehabilitate after life changing injury, trauma and illness. The team aims to help patients undergoing rehabilitation recover faster and more fully through the use of technology, supporting NHS staff with better rehabilitation equipment and techniques, and boosting the UK’s rehabilitation technology businesses. The innovation funnel feeds technologies into RehabHRC, taking ideas from technology push and clinical pull, identifying and capturing the most promising technologies for potential RehabHRC support.

About HRC's theme

Rehabilitation is the process of supporting patients to recover from serious injuries, trauma and illness, to maximise their functionality, reduce disability, and overcome limitations to normal daily functioning. Modern medicine helps more people survive increasingly traumatic medical events, which means that more people need rehabilitation to help them to get back to work and other activities more quickly so that they, and their families, will have a better life and contribute to society and to the economy.

Support provided

Innovation funnel theme: we can offer seed funding to innovators through funding calls associated with HRC themes.
Starting point: the best ideas often come from the people who need solutions the most - we understand the problems real people experience when it comes to rehabilitation. But it can be a long way from that initial thought to an innovation that everyone uses. Every innovation is unique, and we can provide you with support and advice throughout the process.
Supporting you: running events, courses and activities. we bring together different people with different experiences, including the people who have been there and done it before. We can offer you support and advice to clarify your concept, perfect your prototype, simplify your supply chain, meet your market, and reach the regulations that all healthcare technology has to meet.
No guarantees: launching any new product is a lot of hard work with no guarantee of success, and sometimes the best result is discovering the flaw in an idea before you waste too much time and money.
Next steps: we can help you to get initial research funding, produce your first prototype, develop a business plan, help with scaling up. We also know when others might be better suited to help you. Every product is different.