Our Priorities
We support innovation by bringing together academia, health, industry and government.
We work in collaboration with many organisations including ABHI, Health Innovation Hub Ireland, ABPI, The Academy of Medical Sciences, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme, Innovate UK, DKIT, Atlantic Futures as well as the voluntary and charity sector, industry, clinical and health organisations, government and government bodies across the UK, Ireland and globally.
Our Northern Ireland City Deals are key investments with a strong focus on health and life sciences.
We work in partnerships to build towards having the skills, people, and projects in place to maximise this investment.
We make it easier for its network of universities, industry, and health organisations to collaborate to achieve improved economic, health and social care outcomes for Northern Ireland’s 1.9 million residents.
We advocate for health and life sciences, enabling the sector to promote itself nationally and internationally.
We lobby government and support local, national, and international investment.
Health and Economy Working in Partnership
We want to see a dynamic Health-Economy partnership to create a framework for industry-health collaboration beyond research, so the knowledge assets and capabilities in health can become an innovation and economic driver. This includes will help retain staff, develop new skills, empower patients, attract in-kind funding and investment and accelerate transformation of the health service to reduce waiting lists, and improve access and outcomes. Read our report on health and wealth in NI:
We advocate and collaborate with the Departments of Health and Economy in Northern Ireland to create a route into the system for innovators and to support the work already ongoing in digital transformation and innovation within our health service. We raise awareness of the ongoing innovative work within our health service and engage with our health trusts to support them to access funding from cross sector bids by providing sector specific insights. We integrate programmes such as the NHS CEP, work across clusters, borders and build memorandums of understanding with partners that can support the growth of the health and wealth of everyone in Northern Ireland.
Regulatory advocate and innovation leaders
We work with our NI early industry to support them with the business acumen needed to run a successful life sciences enterprise and help support them to keep and grow their business in Northern Ireland.
We use our life sciences experience, relationships and expertise to upskill our people from investors to business schools, health innovators to researchers with our sector specific knowledge.
We advocate and collaborate with all our stakeholders through our Health Tech Leaders forum, our annual conference and Life Sciences, Life Support event, our pulse networking events and many more events we host and partner on throughout the year. We integrate our knowledge with our universities to identify and fill any skills gaps within our sector. We provide business intelligence and have created a strong voice through our communications channels including our jobs and events web pages which showcase Northern Ireland. Events and Jobs.
We speak to governments to highlight the sector needs a Regulatory advocate and an Innovation Lead in the Department of Health to ensure HSC-NI is connected and can benefit from and drive the ecosystem. This includes pushing through executive legislation so anonymised health data can be utilised for both research and commercial purposes to inform earlier detection of disease and better health outcomes.
Cohesive Infrastructure
We use our cluster infrastructure to connect with SMEs and academics and grow the ecosystem through horizon scanning, problem-solution sharing and building skills capabilities in areas such as analytics, precision diagnostics and biomarkers.
We advocate, collaborate and integrate with other organisations such as Catalyst, ELRIG and many more to create a convening space, to influence and keep our huge resource of talent in Northern Ireland, impacting people and patients locally .
