Medipex wins funding to develop NHS ideas
THE organisation that develops and manages innovative commercial ideas within the National Health Service in the region has been awarded almost £600,000 to help accelerate early stage projects.
Medipex, the NHS innovation humb for Yorkshire has received the £593,000 Public Sector Research Exploitation (PSRE) funding from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), to carry out feasibility studies into early stage ideas which can be commercialised.
It will also be spent on e-learning and training for NHS staff through the www.ennovations.co.uk website.
Science and Innovation Minister Ian Pearson announced the successful bids at an event at the Natural History Museum in London and said: “This type of commercialisation makes a direct contribution to the DIUS innovation agenda that I set out in the ‘Innovation Nation’ White Paper earlier this year. It enhances public services through creativity and knowledge.”
Managing director of Medipex, Richard Clark, said: “PSRE is very competitive and open to a wide range of public sector bodies and the fact that this bid was successful is important recognition of our capabilities as judged by an independent national body (DIUS).”
“PSRE represents a crucial stepping stone towards embedding capacity and developing processes designed to deliver commercially sustainable outcomes that will be of immense benefit to the NHS Trusts that Medipex serves.”
Medipex is based at Leeds Innovation Centre at the University of Leeds and is a independent company which is part of a national network of NHS innovation hubs that manage and exploit intellectual property (IP) from within the NHS including primary care trusts (PCTs).
