About Us

Propel@YH is Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber’s digital accelerator portfolio of programmes that are open to UK and international innovators. They provide innovative organisations developing digital health solutions with access to a structured course of support and advice aimed at enabling accelerated company growth and increased market presence.

The programmes are open to all SMEs that have either an existing presence in the region or are willing to establish one. We work across sectors to find solutions that meet the needs of our population, locally and nationally, through cutting-edge technologies.

They will provide a unique and tailored set of advisory, guidance and support services to enable global organisations to bring innovative digital health and patient solutions to the region’s population and the wider health economy and will also offer assistance to participants in developing an NHS-relevant business case.

Innovators will receive expert mentorship and dedicated one-to-one support on topics including marketing, law and finance. In addition, patient representatives will be involved in helping the cohort to develop a patient-centred, co-designed approach to their work.

Benefits for participants

• Masterclasses on how to build clinical safety cases, develop an evidence-based proposal and understand procurement in the NHS.
• Support to develop an NHS-relevant, evidence-based business case, tailored to the requirements of this challenging sector.
• Access to expert partner organisations including NHS providers and commissioners, primary and secondary care organisations, academic institutions and industry representatives.

These include:

– Nexus community membership, which provides use of co-working space and business lounge, access to member events and support from the engagement team through ‘drop-in’ sessions to broker connections with the University of Leeds.

– Eagle Labs will provide high growth banking expertise, investor speed dating and digital skills training alongside access to resident experts and coaches, education and mentor events and workshops with industry experts.

– Hill Dickinson will deliver workshops on intellectual property, company law, partnership/collaborative working, non-disclosure agreements and cross-border transactions.

– Developing a patient-centred, co-designed approach to your digital solution with input from patient representatives.

Our Impact

• 40 UK based innovators supported
• 44 international innovators supported
• £1.7m in funding and NHS contracts generated
• 15 new staff members

Find out more about our successes in our 2023-24 Impact Report below:

About Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber

Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber is one of 15 Health Innovation Networks set up by NHS England in 2013 and relicensed from April 2018 to operate as the key innovation arm of the NHS.

The aim of Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber is to create significant improvements in the health of the population by reducing service variability and improving patient experience in the health care system. Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber helps ensure new innovative products and services that have the potential to transform lives become part of routine clinical practice. The organisation also assists in providing economic growth for the region, supporting inward investment projects and industry that support the health sector.

For more information, go to www.healthinnovationyh.org.uk