Smart Solutions For HCAI

Helping to find new technologies to fight infection

Reducing healthcare acquired infections (HCAIs) is one of the top priorities for the NHS. It is investing significant sums in improving infection prevention and control and has set itself some challenging targets for the coming years.

While the basic ways of reducing HCAIs are largely unchanged, new technologies and equipment can help to meet these goals more quickly. Therefore it is important that technologies with proven effectiveness can be developed and made available to the NHS without unnecessary delay.

The Smart Solutions programme aims to bring forward new technologies generated by businesses in healthcare or other commercial sectors that are not currently in use, or have not been widely adopted, within the NHS.

These may include new types of medical equipment, but could equally be technologies currently used in non-healthcare applications, which have the potential to be transferred into the NHS to fight infection, such as new types of packaging, coatings or textiles to name but a few.

Applications from companies are now closed, however you can follow the progress of the project through the updates on this website.

Smart Solutions for HCAI is a national programme run by TrusTECH®, the North West Innovation Hub, and supported by the NHS National Innovation Centre. TrusTECH® continues to work with companies with HCAI solutions on a fee-paying basis to deliver innovation and patient care. For more details about our work click here.