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For this month’s Mindset blog, Amanda Begley, our Director of Digital & Transformation, welcomes Innovate UK's exciting newest cohort. 🚀

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🌟 Why apply to Accelerating FemTech: Evaluate? A new 10-week programme for women’s health companies, providing coaching and support to help prepare innovators for real-world evaluation.

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💡 Join the FemTech 101 webinar to learn about the Accelerating FemTech: Evaluate programme, explore the application process and ask questions to the delivery team.

9 September, 12:00pm–1:00pm, sign up below ⬇️

We’re proud to share the evaluation of Accelerating FemTech, which reviews the two cohorts of the programme.

It identifies the most impactful elements, key benefit themes and areas for growth, whilst reinforcing the demand for focused support in women’s health innovation.

The Care Home Pioneer Programme 7th Cohort is open to care home managers, deputies, and senior nurses in south west London.

Since its launch in 2018, this leadership and professional development programme has supported over 150 Pioneers from all 12 boroughs of south London.

The UK Government’s Get Britain Working shows mental health is now the largest work-limiting health condition for under 45s.

June's Mindset blog, by Head of Mental Health, Aileen Jackson, explores how #innovators are tackling the growing challenge of mental ill health.

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Accelerating FemTech is backing bold solutions in women’s health.
🔹 120+ applications (↑42%)
🔹 21 ventures selected — 71% majority-female
🔹 Focus areas: gynaecology, maternity, mental health, CVD

Now, the only Innovate UK-funded accelerator to be re-commissioned.

From brilliant ideas to real-world impact 💡

This year, our Innovator Support team:
✅ Backed 29 digital health companies
✅ Helped 16 build NHS-ready evidence
✅ Trained 57 staff to lead transformation

We're supporting both the tech and the teams behind it.

Safer, more compassionate care depends on the confidence and connection of care home staff. This year we:
✅ Supported 20 leaders through our Care Home Pioneer Programme
✅ Helped scale the Universal Care Plan
✅ Reached 880+ professionals through hydration-focused events

For June's Mindset Company Spotlight, we're featuring Care Reality who create immersive VR training and therapy solutions for the social care sector. ☀️

Their XR learning platform FLO puts the user in real-life care scenarios so they can safely build their skills. 🥽

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Patient safety isn’t just about procedures — it’s about culture, systems, and people. This year we:
✅ Halved mortality for babies born at 24–31 weeks
✅ Helped 14 NHS sites embed Martha’s Rule
✅ Co-launched LARCH to address structural racism in healthcare