Mr Les Plant United Kingdom

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) works with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets, and encourage the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice.  

In atttending this event, we offer sellers an opportunity to explore exporting to new overseas markets. We have dedicated Market Experts available to outline the opportunity in the Nordics, Spain and The Netherlands - see below.

We offer new and experienced exporters tailored, impartial and expert advice on winning business overseas. We combine the skills of our private sector, International Trade Advisers with the national resources of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Moreover, our global network of UK trade development officers, based in British Embassies, Consulates and High Commissions, ensures you can tap into an unrivalled depth of contacts, business knowledge and expertise.


Meet UK Trade & Investment Market Experts at the event

The Nordics, Spain and the Netherlands have interest in Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation and will be available for one-to-one meetings.
Find out how your business can profit in these markets by attending a free one-to-one meeting with our visiting Market Experts from Spain, The Netherlands and Denmark who will be covering the Nordic regions.

Benefits of attending a meeting include:

  • An overview of business opportunities
  • Useful cultural tips
  • Access to relevant business contacts / websites
  • Answers to your specific questions face-to-face.

Market Experts are a valuable part of UK Trade & Investment’s overseas network. With sound current knowledge and experience of their local markets, they have access to up-to-date business opportunities and can provide tailored advice for you and your business.

Please schedule your meeting directly with the Market Expert for the country/countries you are interested in learning about:

Victor Malecki – The Nordics 
Felisa Lazaro – Spain 
Michiel Hendrickx   – Netherlands 

For more information contact us on: 08452 789 600

Email: info@uktisoutheast.com or visit our website:www.uktisoutheast.com

Buyer Business Category
UK Trade & Investment South East
Sector Specialist for Healthcare 

Miss Rosie Pocock United Kingdom

WalkSteady’s objective is to provide an inexpensive sensor controlled braking system for rollators, suitable for installation on existing and new models. The WalkSteady system incorporates both balance and attitude sensing, and provides an effective braking system which is normally ON. This will minimise falls, improve rehabilitation by promoting upright balanced walking, and make users more independent and confident both inside and outside their homes.  

WalkSteady has already been granted a UK Trademark (no. 2448173), covering use of the brand across all wheeled vehicles. This is in anticipation of a possible product extension to manual wheelchairs, where there is also a pressing need for a cost-effective solution: carers are often of similar age to the user, and may have their own health problems, yet have to manage a wheelchair on a slope, which is difficult for the fittest of people. 

Seller Business Category
Miss Rosie Pocock
WalkSteady Ltd
Director 

Mr Ben Ramsay United Kingdom

Intel-GE Care Innovations™ creates technology-based solutions that give people confidence to live independently, wherever they are. But, perhaps surprisingly, we don’t start with technology. We start with the people who use our products. Care Innovations is deeply committed to these people. We’ve spent nearly 12 years living with, talking with, studying, observing, and listening to people at all levels of healthcare and independent living. And we’re including them as active participants in the solutions we deliver.

Intel and GE Logos

Care Innovations is a unique joint venture between Intel Corporation 
and GE. Both companies have a long history of driving innovation, solving hard problems, and creating new markets. And now we’ve combined forces—GE’s expertise in healthcare and Intel’s expertise in technology— to change the way care and solutions are delivered.

As Care Innovations, we carry forward our knowledge of the industry; insight into creating new business models for changing times; deep involvement in standards and policy setting organizations; and a strong belief that we can do better—that we must do better—at creating solutions that work for our enterprise customers and the people they serve.

In the same way that we’re committed to listening to what the ultimate consumers of our solutions need, we’re committed to truly partnering with you, our customers, to deliver solutions that will stand the test of time. We’re also committed to helping you discover the new partnerships and business models that will define your success now and in the future. We know that the current array of highly specialized, highly proprietary, highly customized—and therefore very expensive—solutions are not the answer. The industry needs to cooperate to develop standards and integration, accelerate innovation, and deliver the solutions that millions of people need to live independently wherever they are.

Seller Business Category
Mr Ben Ramsay
Intel-GE Care Innovations
Market Development Manager 

Ms Laetitia Regnault United Kingdom

UKTI in France & Innovalink Consulting have developed a SIG on Service Robotics between France & England in order to establish a critical mass of key stakeholders. One of the objectives of our project is to identify business opportunities in the UK on behalf of Innovative French SMEs who have developed robotic technologies with applications in the Telehealth/Telecare industry.

Buyer Business Category
UKTI France / Innovalink
Director 

Miss Amanda Rimington United Kingdom

Buyer Business Category
NHS Kent and Medway
Lead Commissioner AAT 

Mr Michael Rowe United Kingdom

Broomwell Healthwatch provides cardiology diagnostic support to GP practices, enabling diagnostic tests to be undertaken in primary care and thereby enhancing patient care and reducing uneccesary referrals.

 

We interpret ECGs and arrhythmia tests (holters and event recorders) for GP practices. We also provide devices to undertake these tests in primary care.

 

Tests are sent by phone, email or fax to our 24/7 tele-cardiology centre from practices across the UK and are interpreted immediately/rapidly by expert cardiology clinicians. 

 

A report is then sent back to the practice by secure email or fax and is easily integrated into the electronic patient record.

 

Consultant cardiologists set and monitor standards of clinical governance at the centre. The centre has successfully interpreted over 235,000 ECGs and arrhythmia tests for GP practices across the country enabling GPs to diagnose patients without referring them on to secondary care.

 

The resultant speeding up of the diagnosis of patients and reduction in costs and inconvenience have led to the service being commissioned by over 40 CCGs and PCTs.

Seller Business Category
Broomwell Healthwatch
Director 

Mr Ferhat Sayeste Turkey

Aileden Biri Home Healthcare Center

Established in 2005, AB offers home healthcare services within the metropolitan Istanbul area. AB obtained its official license from the Ministry of Health in 2006 and is one of the few licensed companies in Turkey.  Services for individual patients include:

  • Visits and 12/24 hour shifts of skilled nurses and care aides
  • House visits of general practitioners and specialist doctors
  • Elder companionship at Home
  • Rehabilitation at Home (Physiotherapist, Psychotherapist, Dietician)
  • Diagnosis at Home (All Laboratory Services, X-ray, Ultrasonography, EKG)
  • Sales and rental of medical equipment and supplies

AB is mostly servicing patients who suffer from chronic diseases (cancer, COPD, CHF, alzheimer's, etc.) and need nurse visits or continuous care of a care aide or a nurse. The company also assists people who got discharged from hospital and need certain treatments (IV injection, wound care, oxygen therapy, etc.) at home.

AB also provides staffing services to hospitals and other medical establishments, co-operates with pharmaceutical companies in disease management programs and works with private insurance companies in several preventive medicine projects.

For more information, you can refer to company’s website, www.ailedenbiri.com

AB wants to meet with:

remote monitoring/telemedicine/telehealth equipment producers and service providers who use such technology to complement their services in home care/elderly care/long term care fields.

AB is specifically interested in meeting with the following providers/suppliers: 

  • Personal emergency response system (or community alarm) manufacturers
  • Home care service providers who offer community alarm as part of their service offerings
  • Call center companies which are established to respond to community alarms
  • Remote monitoring equipment manufacturers who command a unique technology

AB is also interested in partnerships, collaborations, licensing or distributorship agreements with UK remote monitoring/telemedicine/telehealth equipment producers and service providers.

AB’s buying timescale is longer term (12 months + ).

Aileden Biri HomeHealthcare Center
Director 

Mr David Stansfield United Kingdom

Looking Local – owned by Kirklees Council – has delivered public sector services on TV and mobile for over seven years. Platform agnostic and driven to ensure universal access, Looking Local is leading the UK’s evaluation of eHealth and Telecare services on digital interactive TV, smartphones, tablets and mobile. This work focuses on helping older people to stay independent and at home for longer by managing their personal healthcare, monitoring, giving access to professionals, appointments, information and advice.

Looking Local is a strategic partner of NHS24, hospital health trusts and several CCGs and together we are working towards the availability of a range of health services on digital TV, mobile and smartphones. Widening access to health information, advice, appointment booking and local health services to people without internet access has proven time and again to deliver efficiencies.

In 2011 NHS Scotland launched a new service via Looking Local allowing patients improved access to NHS 24, NHS Inform, Care Information Scotland and Scottish Backs as well as the ability to undertake health questionnaires. The service offers real time GP appointment booking, access to local health services (dentists, doctors, opticians, pharmacies), information from the Health A-Z, seasonal health advice, news, health and wellbeing guides, as well as links to local support organisations.

In addition to our health partners (NHS Trusts, GP Commissioning Consortia, NHS Choices and Patient Opinion) Looking Local is also leading a number of telehealth and telecare programmes focusing on older people, issues of isolation, healthcare provision and service delivery efficiencies.

Seller Business Category
Looking Local
Account Manager 

Mr Rob Stanton United Kingdom

Seller Business Category
Care Talk
Business Development 

Mr Malcolm Stewart United Kingdom

Big Media is a web software company that specialises in turning websites into ones that look good on ANY platform through the application of their Chameleon software – one site, one URL any device.

In the context of using information and communication technologies to Liberate the Individual to Live Independently, it is seen as vital that internet experiences are not hampered and restricted to computers.

With successful deployments of Chameleon services in the Olympic Lodge Hotel bedrooms (hybrid internet and broadcast TV) and with the National Spinal Injuries Centre (multiplatform support information "channel"), Big Media demonstrates a firm understanding and ability to help organisations reach their audiences WITHOUT restricting access to PCs and laptops.

Seller Business Category
Mr Malcolm Stewart
Big Media
Director