NHS Wales Stroke Technology Symposium

I. Introduction and Invitation:

If your organisation has technology solutions and/or the skills and expertise to develop new solutions in partnership with NHS clinical and operational teams, we invite you to join us at the Stroke Tech Symposium. This event is not intended for drugs development or trials.

The NHS Wales Stroke Innovation and Improvement Subgroup as part of the NHS Wales Cardiovascular Network will be running a STROKE TECH SYMPOSIUM on Thursday 13 November 2025 as a means of responding to NHS stroke based clinical and operational ambitions and challenges.

The categories are:

• Data collection and management
• Remote monitoring
• Rehabilitation and Medical Adherence
• Patient flow and efficiency
• Patient education and support
• Technology innovation and integration

These categories are connected to achieving national standards, stroke prevention, treatment, digital infrastructure development, acute stroke services, post-acute stroke services, post diagnosis not-stroke (Mimic) services, hyper acute stroke unit developments.

We are looking for companies with goods and/or services that might be able to help us with these challenges.

The Stroke Technology Symposiums aims are to:

• Catalyse partnerships between NHS teams and businesses that will lead to a project proposal(s) – funding available ~£60k.
• Identify a grand challenge for a later ‘Contracts for Innovation’ (previously SBRI) project.

II. Process Information you may find helpful in considering our request:

Before the Stroke Tech Symposium;

You are invited to register for the event.

When registering you should indicate how you would like to participate in the event.

We may connect you to NHS stroke teams in Wales to learn more about your goods and/or services.

During the Stroke Tech Symposium;

The event format – World Café:

• NHS teams will share their ambitions and challenges. Businesses will have opportunities to ask/explore those ambitions and challenges by questions, clarifying the nature and context of the ambitions and challenges etc.
• NHS teams will share examples of good practice.
• You (businesses) will share/present your goods and/or services.
• Opportunities for collaborating with NHS teams and initial preparations for submitting collaboration proposals.

After the Stroke Tech Symposium;

• Work with NHS teams to prepare and submit proposals
• Selection process and panel

After the panel decision;

• Selected projects will receive funding to deliver their project(s)
• A selected challenge will be passed to ‘Contracts for Innovation’ (previously SBRI)

The Panel;

The panel members will be senior NHS Clinicians, Executive Management, Patient and Public Representatives, and National Teams.

III. Other Information you may find helpful in considering our request:

This initiative is being co-ordinated on behalf of all NHS organisations in Wales and selected proposals will be progressed via the individual organisation’s procurement processes and not on a National scale.

Funding will be paid only to NHS organisations who, in turn, will contract with businesses directly.

Project proposals will only be accepted from businesses working in collaboration with NHS teams.

Business will be expected to demonstrate how they will contribute resources or funding (in-kind) to the project.

There will be no extensions to timelines.

We are publicising this informal engagement widely to help NHS stroke teams explore fully and understand the potential options for future services developments.

Projects will need to be delivered by end March 2026.

IV. Process and timelines

Interested participants to register their interest in attending by 9th October 2025

Registered participants to receive confirmation of their attendance by 15th October 2025. We will also confirm whether you will be invited to host a table during the World Café business session.

Agenda will be issued prior to the Symposium

Stroke Tech Symposium to be held on 13th November 2025

Selected parties to submit proposals within 4 weeks following the Symposium

The Panel to meet Mid-December 2025

Distribution of Funds by end of January 2026