‘NHS Wales each year vaccinate approximately 1 million adults and children from across Wales, including childhood immunisations and Influenza.’
This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic delivery of these vaccinations will become more of a challenge, due to a wider range of more vulnerable groups (shielded), new social distancing measures, infection control and the inclusion of the COVID-19 vaccination. A COVID-19 vaccine in the best case scenario will be delivered rapidly to large numbers of people in alternative venues in the community from this autumn.
The SBRI are looking to identify, develop and demonstrate rapid technologies in the best case scenario.
At the end of the project, systems will be tested and demonstrated in a live trial with NHS Wales.
Innovations must be suitable for rapid deployment within the NHS and ideally solutions will have wider applicability. Due to the restricted timescale of this challenge informatics solutions will not be considered.
The closing date for applications is 12pm on 29 July 2020.
For further information please visit the SBRI website.