Invention: developing clinical innovations with member trusts
The ideas that transform patient care already exist inside your trust. UCLPartners helps frontline innovators turn them into real solutions.
NHS clinicians and frontline staff see problems that need solving every day, and many have the ideas to solve them.
Many of these ideas never go anywhere, not for lack of merit, but for lack of time, commercial knowledge and the support needed to navigate a complex system. Our Invention service aims to change that. Working with staff across our member trusts, we provide the knowledge, tools and infrastructure to turn clinical insight into viable, scalable innovations.
Who this is for
All staff working within Barts Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Royal Free London and University College London Hospitals.
The service is relevant to all employees with a practical problem to solve and an idea worth developing, including clinical, operational and administrative colleagues.
For other innovators, start-ups or industry partners looking to work with UCLPartners, please explore our innovation services.
How it works
Join the conversation
Attend one of our events to start your invention journey. At these events, we encourage you to identify the everyday problems faced in the workplace and explore how to turn them into implementable solutions. You can also join our Innovator Community for information on upcoming events, opportunities for learning and collaboration and other ways to get involved.
Share your ideas
Our team works with you to clearly articulate your specific problem, ensuring any solution addresses a genuine, validated need.
Innovation development
Through our health innovator training we work with you to refine the design of your solution. We then apply engineering approaches and innovation methodology, developing your solution so that its ready to be tested, evaluated and refined in real world settings.
Commercial development
Drawing on our in-house expertise and world-leading ecosystem, we combine venture building with tech transfer to transform the strongest ideas into viable products and services—developing, protecting and commercialising innovations, securing investment, and building companies.
Removing friction
We scale solutions across our network of NHS trusts. We do this by reducing the barriers that slow innovation down within the NHS, from policy navigation to piloting, to innovation passporting, creating the conditions for good ideas to move.
Key benefits
Improving outcomes and efficiency
Innovations that have the potential to improve patient outcomes and create efficiencies in how care is delivered.
Supporting staff development
Greater staff satisfaction, through new development opportunities and career pathways that make the most of staff innovation potential.
From concept to scale
Structured support from concept to prototype, pilot or spin-out.
Clearer innovation pathways
Faster and more transparent process for innovators, including clarity around intellectual property, time commitment and potential outcomes from day one.
Access to expert networks
Access to UCLPartners’ commercial, clinical and funding networks, reducing time and risk.
Driving economic growth
Creating economic growth through commercializing healthcare innovations that also return value to the NHS
Case studies
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Is this right for you?
This service is most suited to those with an appetite for innovation and readiness for the cultural shift that comes with it.
You do not need a fully formed idea; a clearly identified problem is enough to start.
General enquiries
invention@uclpartners.com
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Kelly Lin
Director of Innovation Development
kelly.lin@uclpartners.com
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