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On 14 April 2026, members of the Mindset‑XR team attended the Health and Life Sciences Showcase at Parliament. The event, hosted by Curia, UKAI, and UK Healthcare and Life Sciences Innovation (UKHLSI), highlighted the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London’s nomination for the Digital Innovation Award.
Neil Kennett-Brown, Programme Director of System Sustainability for South East London Integrated Care Board, introduces the three-year programme for improving lower limb wound care pathways across south east London. The HIN and South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) have partnered to transform lower limb wound care across all six boroughs.
Since September 2025, our Patient Safety team has supported south London maternity services to implement the standardised training, tools and pathways for managing impacted fetal head. In this blog, Olivia Harris, Clinical Faculty Midwife for the Avoiding Brain Injuries in Childbirth Programme outlines how the regional implementation is progressing.
Since 2018, the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London has been supporting Psychologically Informed Collaborative Conversations (PIC-C), an innovative project designed to train healthcare professionals to improve how they care for people with pain by implementing psychologically informed treatment strategies.
Commercial Director Anna King reflects on a recent commercialisation roundtable, highlighting how XR and other digital technologies are reshaping mental healthcare and the challenges the NHS must overcome to deploy these innovations sustainably and at scale.
A further 500 residents across Merton with respiratory conditions have been supported over the winter period through a national funding programme, which has been extended from today, Tuesday, March 17
This March’s Mindset-XR Innovation Support Programme spotlight shines on Neurotech, an innovative startup applying engineering and high‑tech solutions to education and medicine to improve everyday life for people who might not otherwise have access to them.
February’s Mindset-XR Innovation Support Programme spotlight shines on Photography Based Therapeutics (PBT), a mental health company helping young people express emotions through images rather than words.
Dr Emilios Lemoniatis, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and CCIO & CEO of Medical Creatives Ltd, discusses how XR innovators can navigate the challenges of D2C to build commercially viable products.
An innovative knee, hip and back pain programme which has helped over 40,000 patients and saved the NHS tens of millions of pounds will soon be available more widely across the UK, thanks to a new par
Play Well For Life’s (PWFL) Dragons of Afterlands is a pioneering augmented reality (AR) board game co-created with young people, psychologists, and educators.
In this blog, Senior Programme Manager Jill Owens looks at the key qualities shared by successful innovators from understanding clinical needs to demonstrating positive patient outcomes, delivering cost efficiencies, and championing inclusivity.
HIN Project Managers Hilary Moorhead and Dr Antonio Ruiz-Gonzalez share insights into how horizon scans and market access reviews can support NHS teams. They explain the difference between the two approaches, when each is most useful, and highlight examples of past work that demonstrate their practical impact.
In this blog, John Waugh, Finance Support Officer and researcher, explores how innovators with solutions for women’s health from the Accelerating FemTech and DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programmes are overcoming this critical feedback loop.
The latest TeleRehaB Decision Support System (DSS) Market Access Report provides a strategic overview of the telerehabilitation market across five key European countries, examining opportunities for UK-based innovators working in digital rehabilitation. The HIN has coordinated a series of focus groups to shape the development of the project and, most recently, produced a market access report.
Our January Mindset-XR blog features Propeer Solutions Ltd and their innovative approach to post-traumatic stress disorder treatment. Their technology allows users to safely engage with realistic scenarios, providing vital support for those affected by PTSD.
Life Sciences Week (LLS) ran from 16–21 November 2025, bringing together leaders to explore innovation in London. As part of London Life Sciences Week, our CEO, Dr Rishi Das-Gupta, chaired an expe
For December, our Mindset-XR Innovation Support Programme spotlight is on Little Beginnings Ltd and their mental health app, Rumii.
Last month, our Head of Mental Health, Aileen Jackson, attended the BMJ Digital Health and Innovation Community Conference, a gathering of leading voices shaping the future of healthcare.
PMDD is characterised by intense symptoms of depression, anxiety, and even suicidal thoughts, occurring in the two weeks before menstruation. For many, this means living with intense mental and physical distress for nearly half of their reproductive years.
Kerry Beadling-Barron, Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs at the Health Innovation Network South London, shares her perspective on the rise of AI use in communications, informed by lessons from the era of “new media”.
