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Catching cancer early
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24/10/2006
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With strict regulation and the need for extensive clinical testing, bringing a new disease detection technology to fruition is no easy matter, even for large diagnostics companies with the financial clout and expertise.
If you are a research team with a bright idea but no budget, it is difficult to get the funding and expertise needed to bring a project to completion. In the past, the hurdles have been so huge that innovation has gone untapped, particularly within organisations such as the NHS or the various teaching hospitals and research establishments aligned to it.
But the creation of a network of nine NHS Innovation Hubs is changing the way in which innovation is exploited within the NHS – and with notable success.
Medipex is the NHS Innovation Hub for the Yorkshire and Humber region. Set up to provide technology transfer services to the NHS, Medipex encourages NHS bodies and their employees to recognise the value of their ideas and provides practical support to would be innovators – from the ideas stage through to development and final product launch.
One project coming to fruition under Medipex’ guidance is a cervical cancer detection probe pioneered by consultant gynaecologist Dr John Tidy at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Emeritus Professor Brian Brown from University of Sheffield’s medical physics department.
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Author
Vanessa Knivett
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