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Newcastle's GreyMatters secure portion of NHS funded programme

Healthcare technology creators, GreyMatters, have secured part of a £5 million NHS funded initiative - designed to support the development of services for unmet health needs.

The Newcastle University-based firm won funding from SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England initiative to provide proof of concept funding eight projects.

GreyMatters are developing a tool to personalise the provision of care for those near the end of life.

Designed to capture and share preferences of care, the pathway tool avoids admissions and readmissions to reduce costs.

Karen Livingstone, director of SBRI Healthcare commented: “The importance of new technologies in these key health areas cannot be underestimated.

“The successful companies will be developing products to support patients to manage pain, share family moments and prepare for their final days as part of the end of life competition. In the area of mental health, we had some highly innovative games for young people experiencing mental health challenges and bespoke usable apps that will support people in the breadth of their lives to feel able to manage their conditions for themselves.

“SBRI is a great means to accelerate the development of these products and we look forward to working with the successful companies.”

Each of the eight successful companies will undertake 6 month development phases.

Those businesses demonstrating best value and greatest technical feasibility in phase 1 will progress through to phase 2 to be further supported and funded to take their technologies through to commercialisation.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .