SBRI Healthcare is pleased to announce the launch of Competition 16.
Cardiovascular Disease
Heart and circulatory diseases cause more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK and the British Heart Foundation have identified that there are around 7.4 million people living with heart and circulatory diseases in the UK
The NHS has an ambition to prevent over 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases over the next 10 years. Whilst much of this can be met through sharing of best practice there is also a significant unmet health need, to which this competition is looking for novel solutions.
Including the following sub themes:
- Detection and Prevention
- Intervention and invasive interventions
- Efficacy of the CVD Pathway
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Integrated Care and Social Care
There is currently a drive to transform the NHS and social care system to address the growing, and increasingly unsustainable, pressures faced by the system. This drive includes initiatives to transform the health and care workforce, to integrate health and care to better meet the needs of the population and to expand and improve access to health and social care. Including the following sub themes:
- Improve effective data sharing across the care network
- Reduce social care workforce pressure