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We’re extremely proud to announce that we’ve been chosen to partner with NHSX to roll out a care worker app, fully integrated with the NHS111 online symptom checker, to help care providers during COVID-19. With over 1,600 applications to Techforce19, Birdie is one of just 18 startups chosen.
NHSX and MHCLG last week announced the 18 digital solutions that have been awarded funding under the TechForce19 challenge. TechForce19 has awarded up to £25,000 to innovations that offer a digital way to support vulnerable people. NHSX has been working with partners PUBLIC and the AHSN Network to run the fast-track competition for innovators, creating a pool of technologies that have the potential to be rapidly scaled regionally and nationally.
Birdie will deploy a free, national care worker app with a COVID-19 symptom checker, integrated with the NHS111 service, to identify confirmed or suspected infections among the elderly they care for. As it’s fully integrated with the existing NHS111 service, it’ll be the first care management app to provide carers and care managers with online medical guidance in real-time; regularly updated by the NHS to stay up to date with Public Health England and Government recommendations.
It will also enable better infection tracking for care providers, local authorities and the NHS, addressing one of the most crucial needs during the COVID-19 crisis.
We’ll share more about our symptom tracker in the coming weeks.
“The TechForce19 challenge has harnessed some of the incredible talent we have in our tech sector to help the most vulnerable. Many of the problems created by isolation lend themselves to digital solutions, and we hope this process will help people take advantage of the potential that digital technology offers.”
Iain O’Neil, NHSX Digital Transformation Director
NHSX is leading the largest digital health and social care transformation programme in the world. With investment of more than £1 billion pounds a year nationally and a significant additional spend locally, NHSX has been created to give staff and citizens the technology they need.
PUBLIC gives technology startups the networks, support, insights and capital to solve public problems and improve the lives of citizens. The team - led by Daniel Korski, ex-deputy head of the No.10 policy unit and venture investor, Alexander de Carvalho - combines expertise in government, technology and finance into a range of programmes like the GovStart programme, a pan-european GovTech accelerator.
Through GovStart, its market-leading insight, well-known events and the technology solutions it builds in-house, PUBLIC has rapidly earned a reputation as a GovTech pioneer and an expert in the role of startups in transforming Europe’s public sector. Its headline event: the annual GovTech Summit, brings together thousands of governments, startups, and investors from across Europe in an effort to break down the barriers that prevent great tech ideas from changing people’s lives.
The AHSN Network comprises 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) across England, established by NHS England in 2013 to spread innovation at pace and scale. We support our health and care partners to deliver improvements that:
As the only organisations that connect NHS and academia, local authorities, the third sector, industry and citizens, AHSNs are catalysts working to create the conditions needed to facilitate change across whole health and social care economies, with a clear focus on improving outcomes for patients.
AHSNs work collaboratively, identifying and supporting the successful development of innovations in our local regional healthcare communities and helping to spread these across our national Network.
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