Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) is a digital health hub that aims to address the unmet health and care needs of populations in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) region of the UK by facilitating responsible cross-sector healthcare technologies design research, innovation, training, and knowledge exchange.
We are a consortium uniting:
We take a community-centred approach and are committed to humanising health-tech by championing equity, participation, and investment across the region. We practice participant-led user research and evaluation of tools and resources to strive for the design of useable and useful technologies and services.
Funded by UKRI/EPSRC as a pilot programme, NortHFutures has established a pioneering ecosystem working across job sectors that empowers people to engage and lead in digital health and health-tech initiatives.
Save the date for the Digital Health Symposium 2026! We are excited to invite you to the Digital Health Symposium, organised in collaboration with NHS England Education North East. 📅 13th March 2026 📍 The Catalyst, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG Book your place now! Once more, we are bringing together clinicians,
Let’s Do Digital is a community of healthcare professionals, educators and technologists who are passionate about health-tech innovation, literacy, and learning. Their annual conference provides a forum for exploring radical and alternative ideas for the future of digital health. Let’s Do Digital 2025 was held last month in
We are working with the VCSE organisation Connected Voice to deliver a series of three training sessions, aimed at cross-sector participants in early stages of research projects and research bid development. The three sessions are aimed at participants in all sectors, levels of seniority, and job roles, and will be
