Since conception in 2016 TheHill have ran and delivered a large number of programmes, including:
Digital Skills for Healthcare Workers (2023)
The newly revamped and updated Digital Skills Programme for 2023 was designed to help healthcare professionals gain in depth digital skills and engage with new pioneering technologies to enable improvements through digital innovation in healthcare.
Find out more about this programme
Barclays Ecosystem Partnership Programme (2024)
The Barclays Ecosystem Partnership Programme (EPP), running as TheHill Start-Up Labs, was a short course for early-stage companies, supporting them to get their healthcare focused digital innovation off the ground. Our 2024 course encouraged Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHPs) to share their ideas for digital solutions that could revolutionise the care they give to patients.
Find out more about this programme.
Virtual Wards Programme
Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Integrated Care System (BOB ICS) is supporting the development, implementation and increasing the capacity of the current virtual ward provisions across Bucks, Berks and Oxon.
TheHill is part of a team of partners including Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley and Channel 3 who are supporting Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford Health, PML, Berkshire Health, Royal Berkshire Hospital and Buckinghamshire Healthcare to put this service in place.
Find out more about our work in Virtual Wards.
OUH Innovation Pathway (2020)
TheHill worked with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to identify the innovative practices that emerged in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WE Health
WE Health was an EIT Health Campus programme designed to enhance the participation of women in health innovation and entrepreneurship. WE Health empowers female health innovators by providing training specifically tailored to their needs, offering inspiration and support to help them advance in their professional careers. WE Health also aims to raise awareness of the positive economic and social impact of gender diversity in health innovation, while generating new ideas that promote innovation across the entrepreneur community in a more balanced way.
Open API Bootcamp (2020)
TheHill, as part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Region Skane (Sweden) and Trinity College (Dublin) ran a 6-week training programme in 2020. It was funded by EIT Health.
The Open API Bootcamp was designed to support early stage start-ups and SME focused on digital health. This EIT Health funded initiative is aimed at tackling three key challenges facing start-ups offering digital solutions in the healthcare sector including:
- Customer acceptance
- Integration with existing technology and systems
- International expansion
EIT Health Bootcamps are intensive incubation programmes for European teams with an idea for a new healthcare product that is in the research and development stage.
Ecosystem Mapping Project
The Oxfordshire health, care and wellbeing ecosystem is a diverse and flourishing environment for innovation. We worked with partners across Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley to usefully map the ecosystem, and understand what further support is required for health, care and wellbeing innovators.
Internet of Things (IoT) Pitch-in Project
Pitch-In aims to collaboratively identify and address barriers to the successful development, introduction and further exploitation of Internet of Things technologies across four key sectors – Cities, Energy, Health and Wellbeing and Manufacturing – whilst also overcoming the social and organisational barriers related to managing the introduction of IoT.
ISfB
Innovation Support for Business (ISfB) is a three-year £5.2m programme funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support innovative Oxfordshire entrepreneurs and businesses by:
- Assisting in developing and commercialising innovations.
- Enhancing research and innovation infrastructure in Oxfordshire.
- Promoting business investment in research and innovation.
- Developing links between businesses and researchers.
OxLEP delivers the ISfB programme with partners from the University of Oxford, Cherwell District Council, Oxford City Council and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.