This two-day hackathon brings together innovators from across the Liverpool City Region to tackle real health and care challenges.

On 24th–25th September, the HealthTech Design Studio team at the University of Liverpool is hosting a two‑day hackathon bringing together innovators from across the Liverpool City Region to tackle real health and care challenges. Whether you’re an SME, entrepreneur, creative, technologist, clinician, researcher, or a resident with lived experience, this is your chance to shape solutions that matter.

Participants will work on challenges grounded in local insights, community conversations, and system‑wide priorities – supported by technical experts, prototyping materials, and data resources.

The hackathon gives you space to test ideas, build skills, and connect with collaborators. After the event, attendees can apply to our open Innovation Sprint funding call - awarding up to £25,000 to develop project ideas.

Themes

Women’s Health

Whole System Issues

Multimorbidity

Public Health

Challenge Statements

Participants can explore challenges such as:

Improving communication across languages and cultures

Creating equitable data for women’s health

Supporting people with multiple long-term conditions

Strengthening continuity and sustainability in care

Predicting and mitigating medicine shortages

Improving accuracy and interactivity of health records

Addressing digital exclusion

Integrating data across councils, NHS, and community orgs

Improving hormonal health monitoring

Designing systems that preserve identity and agency

Who Should Apply

We welcome:

SMEs and startups

Clinicians, allied health professionals, social care workers

Data scientists, developers, designers

Community organisations and voluntary sector leaders

Students, researchers, and academics

Residents with lived experience

Creatives, storytellers, and systems thinkers

Whether you have a fully formed concept or a spark of inspiration, you’re invited.

What You’ll Get

Technical support from our expert team

Materials for paper prototyping and lo‑fidelity concept development

Access to curated datasets

Networking with innovators across LCR

Opportunity to test ideas before applying to our upcoming open Innovation Sprint funding call

Description supplied by the event organiser.