Medilink Midlands News & Opportunities - Issue 47 - January 2025
Medilink Midlands
Transforming the Healthcare Industry by connecting Academics, Businesses and the NHS
With just a week to go until the Medilink Midlands Business Awards application deadline, we take a look at the benefits of being a part of the awards.
Plus, we cover a host of good news and opportunities from across our community, including?the ￡15k funding opportunity through the UK Healthy Ageing Innovation Consortium (formerly Blue Zone).
Enjoy!
Medilink Midlands Team
News
Entering the Medilink Midlands Business Awards is a fantastic opportunity to elevate your business within the competitive landscape of the medtech and life sciences industry.
With less than two?weeks to go until the deadline of the 2025 Awards, we take a look at the top 10 benefits to entering your business in our latest blog.
Many thanks to our category sponsors
Entrepreneurs and innovators from across the West Midlands will get the opportunity to develop and grow their businesses by connecting with potential investors, partners and support organisations at a free event in March.
￡15k funding opportunity through the UK Healthy Ageing Innovation Consortium?Flexible Talent Mobility Award (FTMA),?will enable cross-sector and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange within healthy ageing and biosciences.
The Medilink Midlands Innovation Builder is designed to best serve the exact needs of innovators from across academia and industry. So, if you're an innovator looking to find innovation support and pathways to commercialisation and investment sources, we encourage you to join us.?
SLS has reached a significant milestone in its sustainability journey by achieving a gold rating from EcoVadis, and the company now sits in the top 5% assessed by EcoVadis globally for sustainability performance.
This new offering builds on the company’s decade-long expertise in delivering tailored solutions for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, addressing the unique communication challenges of cross-border Good Practice audits.
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Pioneer Group, the life science infrastructure and venture building specialist, has joined forces with Innovate UK, The Medical Research Council (MRC) and AstraZeneca, to deliver the AI in Health Accelerator 2024/2025 Programme.
IMed Consultancy is sponsoring the NHS Market Access Accelerator Programme, run by innovation catalyst TheHill. The programme offers digital health start-ups a chance to gain a better understanding of how the NHS works.
Excellence First Enterprise Consultancy (EFEC) shares key insights from the recent 11th UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue held on 11 January in Beijing.
Innovate UK has awarded 15 projects a share of ￡1.3m seed funding through the Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation programme.
Opportunities
The Leicestershire Innovation Clinics include sector-specific sessions, offering innovators tangible advice on product development, funding advice, regulation -?all the way through to engaging with the NHS. The next clinic is to take place on 11 March.
This guidance is designed to help medical device manufacturers understand and prepare for the new Post-market surveillance (PMS) regulation for medical devices in Great Britain, which will come into force on 16 June 2025.
An established Midlands-based health manufacturer is keen to hear from others about their demand forecasting strategies.
If you are responsible for sales forecasting in your business, or if you are looking to review your process and gain useful best practise insights from others, we would like to hear from you!