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Health Innovation South East Scotland

Better health and care starts with people and ideas. Health Innovation South East Scotland (HISES) brings together patients, communities, NHS staff and innovators to safely test and evaluate new innovative approaches that can improve lives and strengthen communities across Scotland.

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Projects supported

40+

Partners

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NHS Boards

Helping you on your innovation journey

We specialise in helping innovators with the development, testing and evaluation of new high impact medical technologies through rigorous real-world validation.

We offer life science companies the opportunity to evidence the potential impact of their technology through access to expertise, governance, and technical capabilities such as trusted research environments, supporting economic growth by co-developing within NHS Scotland.

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Research

New ideas, basic research and feasibility studies

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Evaluation - Where HISES comes in.

Real-world testing within the NHS

Identify and triage ideas

We help you work out whether an idea has real clinical value and a genuine route into the NHS.

Test in real clinical settings

We provide NHS-embedded test-bed infrastructure for pre-commercial innovation.

Navigate the NHS

Information governance, ethics, data, contracts and IP, we help you through all of it.

Creating evidence and proving value

Once funding is secured, HISES support innovative solutions to be tried out in a real-world environment to ensure they are fit for purpose – clinically, financially, and operationally.

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Deployment

Ongoing monitoring once deployed at scale.

Which audience best describes you?

Whatever your role, there’s a clear path to getting your idea tested and evaluated.

Innovators & Start-ups

You have a prototype developed that you want to test in the NHS for clinical validation and efficacy in practice.

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Innovators & Start-ups

Academics

You want to translate your research into innovative products and services which could directly benefit patients.

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Academics

Clinicians & NHS staff

You've identified a clinical challenge and have an idea that could enhance patient care and experience.

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Clinicians & NHS staff

Case studies

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  • NHS Fife logo
  • NHS Borders logo
  • University of Edinburgh logo
  • Scottish Enterprise logo
  • Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) logo
  • Scotland Innovates logo
  • Chief Scientist Office logo
  • InnoScot Health logo
  • ACCORD (University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian) logo
  • DataLoch logo
  • NHS Lothian logo
  • NHS Fife logo
  • NHS Borders logo
  • University of Edinburgh logo
  • Scottish Enterprise logo
  • Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) logo
  • Scotland Innovates logo
  • Chief Scientist Office logo
  • InnoScot Health logo
  • ACCORD (University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian) logo
  • DataLoch logo
People networking at a HISES event
People networking at a HISES event

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