Bring your tech to North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust
Venue: Thelwall House, Warrington Hospital, Warrington
Start: Friday 27 Nov 2026 09:00
End: Friday 27 Nov 2026 17:00
Request a showcase place (10% discount for ABHI members on request)
Organised by ABHI member Highland in collaboration with North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust.
The opportunity for ABHI members
Meet staff at every level: trust leaders, frontline, digital teams and operational decision-makers from one of the NHS's newest integrated trusts and demonstrate how your innovation can support its ambitions.
This showcase provides ABHI members with a unique opportunity to engage directly with stakeholders from across the trust at a formative stage in its development, when strategy is being built, and future approaches to care delivery, service redesign and technology adoption are actively being considered.
The trust is looking to explore solutions that address current operational and clinical challenges, while also creating a smarter hospital environment and introducing innovative approaches that can bring care closer to home.
Discover more about the trust’s tech interests
Bringing tech directly to the NHS
Elevate is a programme of health tech showcases bringing health tech directly into the NHS.
For NHS teams, it exposes leaders and the workforce to the art of the possible: with tech aligned with organisational priorities.
For tech suppliers, it literally opens trust doors to walk through. Access to execs, senior leaders, clinicians and operational teams in their environment.
Innovation areas of interest
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust has identified a broad range of innovation priorities and is particularly interested in solutions that support:
- Care closer to home: Tech that enables patients to be safety supported outside hospital and reduces avoidable attendance/admissions. Eg: remote monitoring, home diagnostics, remote monitoring, wearables, virtual consultations, supported discharge, hospital at home.
- Smart hospitals: Using tech, data and connected devices to improve safety, flow and operational performance. Eg AI diagnostics, smart beds/sensors, RTLS, asset tracking, command centre, smart theatres, connected medical devices.
- Prevention and population health: Moving from reacting to illness to identifying risk and intervention earlier. Eg AI risk prediction, deterioration detection, population health analytics, falls/frailty prevention.
- Clinical productivity: Giving teams time back and removing repetitive admin work. Eg clinical AI assistants, workflow automation/RPA, automated coding, referral triage.
- Digital Front Door, access & patient empowerment: Making it easer for patients to access, navigate and participate in their care. Eg digital triage, self-service, appointment management, digital consent, NHS app integration.
- Winter pressures: Urgent requirement this year to put in place tech that supports patient triage, demand management, navigation, streaming, and redirection.
- The art of the possible: Organisations whose solutions do not sit neatly within the listed categories are still encouraged to request a place where they can demonstrate relevance to the trust's objectives.
The trust has worked with Highland to identify nearly 100 solution areas for exploration. To maximise value for participants and NHS attendees, showcase places are limited to two suppliers per category.
Demonstrated success across the NHS
The Elevate model has already been delivered with organisations including University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, and Countess of Chester Hospital.
At Derby and Burton, more than 500 NHS employees engaged with participating suppliers during the event. Discussions generated during the showcase have continued through follow-up conversations, helping inform organisational thinking and creating opportunities for future collaboration.
Learn more about previous showcase events:
https://elevate.highland.health/
Why participate?
Meaningful access to NHS stakeholders
- Connect directly with senior leaders, clinicians, digital teams and operational staff from across the organisation.
Relevance and alignment
- Participating suppliers are matched against trust priorities to ensure conversations are focused and productive.
Inform future thinking
- Share insights and expertise that can contribute to ongoing discussions around innovation, service development and transformation.
Understand real-world challenges
- Gain first-hand perspectives from both senior decision-makers and frontline teams.
Reach a broad audience
- Engage staff representing two hospital sites and more than 70 community locations across the trust.
Build relationships efficiently
- Suppliers involved in previous showcases have described achieving several months of relationship-building and stakeholder engagement within a single day.
How to secure your showcase place
Elevate: North Cheshire and Mersey is a curated innovation showcase hosted within the trust, bringing healthcare suppliers together with the people responsible for shaping future care delivery.
Information on participation, pricing and applications is available online.
ABHI members are eligible to request a 10% discount.
For enquiries, please contact:
Mark Venables
mark@highland.health
+44 (0)7973 172894
Places are limited and allocated by solution category. Ready to take part?