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Awards for Bright Ideas in healthcare

A wireless computer game developed to improve the movement and coordination of children with cerebral palsy is one of the ideas up for an award at the final of the Bright Ideas in Healthcare Awards 2009.

‘Limbs Alive’ is a suite of games designed to improve limb control of children with impaired movement on one side of their body and is one of 11 ideas in with a chance of sharing the £10,000 prize fund.

Three winners and up to three runners up in the innovative devices and services categories will be announced at the ceremony at the Hilton Hotel, Gateshead, tonight.

The awards are organised by the NHS Innovations North team at technology transfer company RTC North and will showcase the most exciting new services and devices developed by employees in the region’s NHS Trusts.

Backed by the region’s NHS Trusts, this year’s awards are sponsored by a range of companies and organistations in the North East, including Newcastle Science City, NHS North East, Cels and HealthConnect, and One North East.

In its sixth year, the competition has been organised by NHS Innovations North, which was established to identify and commercialise intellectual property within the health service, and deliver new product ideas to the region’s manufacturers.

Professor Sir Miles Irving, Chairman of NHS Innovations North, said: “It has been another year of outstanding success in the search for new ways of improving our National Health Service.

“Innovation in healthcare covers a wide variety of activity, from laboratory research to the vast potential for innovation that lies in the minds of those that work at the front end, delivering NHS services.

“So groundbreaking have been many of the submissions we received this year that the judging panel had difficulty in honing down on ten entries to receive awards.”

For more information on the Bright Ideas in Health Awards, email enquiry@nhsinnovationsnorth.org.uk or visit www.nhsinnovationsnorth.org.uk.

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