Inspiring day at yesterday's NIHR Brain Health event! 🧠

Highlights:

➡️Clarity on regulation & aligning innovation with evolving frameworks
➡️ A look at projects driving early detection, diagnosis & better care
➡️ PhD presentations on the impact of co-design with patients

Excited to see what’s next!

The @nihr.bsky.social HRC Network’s first Brain Health Event is officially underway! We’re already seeing incredible energy, thought-provoking insights and meaningful discussions on advancing brain health. Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing key takeaways and learnings throughout the day 💫

Today, our HRC's Prof. Chris Fox, attended the UK Dementia Trials Network meeting. Discussions focused on:

➡️ Building a skilled #researchworkforce
➡️ Improving trial participation diversity
➡️ Embedding technology into dementia studies

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Are you a researcher or #HealthcareInnovator looking to build meaningful public involvement into your research or product development? Our Ideas Café offers informal virtual sessions to discuss your ideas & tech with our public collaborators.

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Calling all youth mental health professionals 🧠

Do you work with digital mental health tools for under 25's? Join the PureMind Project in shaping future digital mental health services by taking part in a short survey.

📅 Deadline: 30 Oct 2025

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Yesterday we connected with potential research participants at the Exeter Clinical Research Facility open day. #HealthResearch is vital for ensuring our innovations make a real difference to peoples health & meet the needs of our communities.

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🌟Great few days at the @alzheimereurope.bsky.social summit.

From exploring innovation in #AlzheimerCare to a powerful session from Prof. Chris Fox (HRC) on using AI to support menopause-related cognitive symptoms.

➡️More on our work in this area here: tinyurl.com/5erebavd

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Fantastic day at the HealthTech Innovation Summit at Plymouth Science Park.

The session was full of insights, inspiration & action where we discussed how to accelerate growth across #HealthTech via collaboration & innovation. Excited for what's next!

#InnovationStartsHere

Last week our HRC came together to delve into #healthcareregulation. From navigating the landscape, to certifying #AI devices, we deepened our expertise & gained key insights that will help us support SMEs in bringing innovations to market. Are you an innovator? Let's talk about how we help you!

This week our HRC Co-Lead, Prof. Chris Fox, joined the
@alzheimerssoc.bsky.social for its annual #ASAC25 conference. It was an inspiring event & we look forward to continuing this momentum as we work to advance #dementiacare in the UK & beyond.

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