Who owns healthtech innovation?

Join RCS England's Innovation Hub and the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) for this in-person only event that follows healthtech innovation through its whole life – from first spark to NHS adoption – and puts one question on trial at every stage: whose job is it to carry it forward?

What to expect from the day

One innovation. Four debates. An idea that improves patient care never travels alone – it passes through the hands of developers, funders, investors, industry and the NHS itself. At each handover, it can stall. In our four debates, expert panels will address the challenges of each stage of the journey. By the end of the day, the room will have carried one innovation all the way to a patient – and named who carried it at every step.

Please note that your ticket includes lunch and light refreshments throughout the day.

Who should attend?

Surgeons and clinicians with an idea or research they want to translate; engineers and academics building healthtech; funders and investors backing it; and industry and NHS teams responsible for adopting it.

How do I book my place?

Places are limited and allocated first-come, first-served – we recommend booking early. Please use the link below to book your place today.

If you require any assistance or have any questions at all, please contact the team at innovation@rcseng.ac.uk.

• A practical map of how a healthtech innovation actually moves from idea to patient – and where it stalls.
• Insight into the people, decisions and money at every stage, whether you're the one with the idea or the one who helps it travel.
• A shared language for the ownership and adoption challenges everyone recognises but rarely names.
• Direct connections across the surgical, engineering, funding and industry communities – built into the format, not left to chance.