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Coffee Time Briefing
7 April 2026

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Today's briefing features a saliva-based pregnancy test called the Lollipop and a healthcare-focused AI interpreter app.
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2 April 2026

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Today's briefing features a free digital platform built for unpaid carers in the UK and an AI-enabled platform for eating
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Dr Zubir Ahmed, former health innovation and safety minister
17 February 2026

£20m funding for tech to tackle drug and alcohol addiction

The government is offering £20 million in grants for medical technologies and digital tools designed to tackle drug and alcohol
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Dupe Burgess, founder of Bloomful
2 December 2025

Innovate UK launches Women in Innovation Awards 2025-26

Innovate UK has launched its Women in Innovation Awards for 2025-26, offering up to 60 awardees support grants of up
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Grace Gimson, chief executive and co-founder of Holly Health
17 November 2025

AI app launched to improve multimorbidity patient care

A project involving an app from Holly Health has improved digital self-management for people living with or at risk of
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Coffee Time Briefing
21 October 2025

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Today's Coffee Briefing includes Jigsaw Medical's Innovate UK funding and the launch of an NHS digital tool to tackle racial
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Coffee Time Briefing
14 October 2025

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Today’s Coffee Time Briefing includes a grant for Reinhart to scale its preventative mental health work and a compliance platform
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SLiNK-TECH’s PORTAL Test Vertiport at Snowdonia Aerospace Centre
3 October 2025

Funding awarded to further develop Welsh drone network

Aerospace innovators have received funding to further develop a drone network serving the Welsh Blood Service and Welsh Ambulance Service.
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Dr Cynthia Bullock, director, healthy lives at Innovate UK
12 September 2025

£3.6m awarded for XR digital mental health solutions

Innovate UK has awarded £3.6m to 17 extended reality (XR) projects to create immersive digital mental health therapeutics.
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Aston University
29 July 2025

AI Smart Care Home System to improve quality of residential care

Aston University has partnered with dementia care provider Lee Mount Healthcare (LMH) to create an AI-powered ‘Smart Care Home’ system.
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