Funding competition information

SBRI Healthcare Competition 27: ‘Work-related digital innovations for individuals with poor mental health’ invites innovations that focus on three areas:

  1. Digital interventions targeting work-related risk factors facing working age population (aged 16 to 64) with mental health problems in employment, that provide rapid support to individuals to help them remain in work
  2. Digital interventions that specifically tackle barriers to work facing unemployed working age individuals (aged 16 to 64) with mental health problems, to support individuals to return to work or gain employment
  3. Digital interventions targeting workplace issues/barriers facing working age population (aged 16 to 64) from disadvantaged communities with mental health problems, to support individuals attain, remain or return to work

The competition is open to innovations at any stage of development from testing the technical and commercial feasibility to generating evidence in real world settings. Please see the Challenge Brief.

Applicants can apply for up to £200,000 (NET, excluding VAT) per innovation for up to 12 months.

The competition is open to single organisations (contracts are executed with individual legal entities) based in the UK or EU from the private, public and third sectors, including companies (large corporates and small and medium enterprises), charities, universities, and NHS providers, given a strong commercial strategy is provided and clear benefit to the NHS is demonstrated.

SBRI Healthcare is an Accelerated Access Collaborative initiative in partnership with the Health Innovation Network. Competition 27 is run in partnership with NHS England’s Digital Innovation Team.

A Briefing Webinar will be held on Tuesday 8 October 9.30-11.30am. Register here.

Applications are open from Wednesday 9 October 2024 to Wednesday 13 November 2024 (13:00 GMT). For more information and to read the FAQs, click here. 

 

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