Prove your technology
in real-world adult social care settings
Work with the University of Liverpool, National Care Forum and adult social care providers in the Liverpool City Region to undertake user testing, refine your product, generate real world evidence and accelerate adoption.
About
Adult social care services in the UK are under increasing pressure, with growing demand, an ageing population and more complex needs. At the same time, broad-ranging technologies could enable the delivery of new care services, augment traditional approaches, reduce the time staff spend on admin and compliance, whilst safeguarding people who draw on care, and improve the quality of care provided.
Many care technologies struggle to find a route to market. Limited access to care settings, professionals and people who draw on care result in new developers having to approach commissioners and providers with unproven technologies. This makes it difficult to demonstrate product safety, efficacy and potential to enable high quality care provision.
The trials engine associated with our Adult Social Care Testbed, established in partnership with the National Care Forum, is explicitly designed to address this gap in the infrastructure needed to support and enable the sector’s digital transformation. We bring together care providers, researchers and technology partners and support the co-design, development, testing and evaluation of innovative solutions in real care environments.
By working within the Testbed, organisations can generate meaningful evidence, understand how their technology performs in practice, and build a stronger case for adoption amongst commissioners and providers.
Work with us
Explore real-world challenges with care providers and identify how your solution could make a difference
Develop your product with input from academics, technicians, care professionals and people who draw on care
User test in active care settings to gather meaningful feedback
Co-design trials with researchers to generate credible evidence
Implement studies with experienced delivery partners
Demonstrate your ROI working with specialist health and care economists
How it works
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Understand your target market and the challenges your solution seeks to address
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Collaborate with us to refine and prototype your solution
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Define what success looks like and co-design a robust evaluation approach
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Deploy your technology in operational services and real-world environments
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Generate data and results to demonstrate impact and value
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Use the evidence to enable commissioning, secure investment and achieve scale
Who you’ll work with
Academic experts and technical professionals from the University of Liverpool
The National Care Forum
Broad-ranging adult social care providers operating in the Liverpool City Region
Who it’s for
This opportunity is best suited to organisations that:
Have a developed product or prototype
Are ready to test in real-world care settings
Want to generate evidence for commissioners, providers or investors
Are open to collaboration and iteration