Our Collaborations
Partnership is at the heart of successful health and care innovation. In our CHI-Zone Collaborations section, we proudly showcase a range of news stories reflecting the impact of our work with national networks, commissioners and providers, and pioneering HealthTech businesses. These stories offer practical insights and inspiration for prospective partners. You’ll find updates on projects as they evolve, testimonials from partner businesses, and concrete examples of how collaboration with the CHI-Zone has accelerated innovation journeys. These stories highlight the breadth of support available and the tangible benefits of working together.
Spotlight: vTime – AI-generated immersive training for healthcare
Meet vTime, a Liverpool-based company, building Project Seacole - an AI-driven immersive training platform for healthcare professionals.
Spotlight: Scenegraph Studios – advancing ethical AI avatars for mental health simulation training
Meet Scenegraph Studios, a Birkenhead-based company, developing developing Pxl-Persona, an AI-driven avatar platform designed to transform how healthcare professionals practise complex mental health conversations.
Spotlight: Facial Dynamics – supporting recovery and confidence through remote facial rehabilitation
Meet Life Analytics Ltd, developers Facial Dynamics, and one of our XR for Community Healthcare grant awardees. Facial Dynamics is addressing the clinical and psychological impact of facial palsy through remote monitoring and augmented reality.
Spotlight: Tend VR – expanding access to mental health support with immersive technology
Meet Tend VR, one of the awardees of our Extended Reality for Community Healthcare Grants. Tend is using immersive technology to widen access to mental health support and ease pressure on overstretched services.
CHI-Zone Fellowship Session 5: Building with Integrity
Week 5 of the CHI-Zone Fellowship focussed on building with integrity, bringing important discussions around regulations, ethics and IP.
CHI-Zone Fellowship Session 4: From Idea to Impact, Taking Solutions to Market
Session four of the CHI-Zone Fellowship switched us from opportunity exploration and market scoping to building business and delivering solutions to market. The focus was on what it really takes to grow a digital health business, work effectively with the NHS, and stay grounded in purpose and people along the way.
CHI-Zone Fellowship Session 3: Understanding Demand
For the third CHI-Zone Fellowship, our focus shifted from ideas to evidence. We took a deep dive into understanding demand, and discussed the importance of challenging assumptions and ensuring our propositions are grounded in real world evidence.
Taking a wider view, we emphasized that evidence gathering is critical not only to solution development, but to building a credible, defensible commercial narrative.
CHI-Zone Fellowship Session 2: Breaking Moulds & Building Futures
Last week our CHI-Zone Fellowship gathered for the second session — and what a session it was. We travelled to St Helens to visit Glass Futures, heard from two extraordinary innovators, and came away reminded how the best might come from the most unexpected corners.
Launching the CHI-Zone Fellowship: Bringing People Together to Rethink Mental Health Futures
Last week marked the first session of our inaugural CHI-Zone Fellowship , a first-of-its-kind programme that gathers innovators from across sectors into one room, sparking fresh thinking and bold new approaches in health and care, with this years’ theme focusing on Mental Health Futures.