Accelerator
The Accelerator is a highly competitive 12-month programme for digital health companies that have products or services with high potential to meet NHS and social care challenges.
Who is the Accelerator for?
This programme is for digital health companies with a product or service that has high potential to meet the current challenges facing the NHS and social care today, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and as detailed in the NHS Long Term Plan. Companies successful in gaining a place on the programme usually have a product or service that has already been piloted in the NHS and is ready to scale.
This NHS delivered programme is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (please see our partners for more information).
What’s involved?
The Accelerator provides tailored support over a 12-month period. Support includes:
- An assigned NHS Navigator who has NHS clinical or service manager expertise
- A programme of expert-led workshops and events as well as bespoke 1:1 advice sessions with digital health and NHS advisors from across the DigitalHealth.London network
- Brokering of meaningful connections between innovators and NHS organisations with specific challenges
Supported
160
digital health companiesFor every £1 spent on the Accelerator through the AHSNs
£ 12.70
is saved for the NHS [1]Named 1 of the Top
8
Accelerators in Europe for Women Founders [2]87 %
of SMEs demonstrated growth whilst on the programme [3]411
new contracts secured during Accelerator support [1]3668
new NHS pilots secure during Accelerator support [1]79
Net Promoter Score for the fifth cohort at 12 months [4]£ 118001546
investment raised during Accelerator support [1]
Success stories
The most valuable thing for us has been the connections made with executives and decision makers within NHS organisations, and with central NHS policy makers, for example in NHS England, and NHS improvement. Our NHS Navigator, combined with the expertise within the Accelerator’s network have helped us reach the people that can make change happen in the NHS
The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme has supported us in engaging with experts in the field and in refining our product to meet the needs of healthcare systems
“We were delighted to join the 2019-20 cohort of DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator, a brilliant programme speeding up adoption of digital health innovations in the NHS. The programme has provided us with opportunities to connect with industry experts as well as other healthtech innovators. I’d encourage companies like ours with good ideas and big ambitions to apply.”