Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) is a collaborative digital health hub that addresses unmet health and care needs of populations in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) region of the UK.
NortHFutures funds and facilitates responsible cross-sector health-tech design research, innovation, training, and knowledge exchange.
We are a consortium uniting:
Funded by UKRI/EPSRC until July 31st 2027, NortHFutures has established a pioneering ecosystem that empowers people to engage and lead in digital health initiatives.
We take a community-centred approach and are committed to humanising health-tech by championing equity, participation, and investment across the region.
Our main focus is to deepen research involvement in digital health research by the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.
We practice participant-led user research and evaluation of tools and resources to strive for the design of useable and useful technologies and services.
Director's update The NortHFutures team has had a busy start to 2026, delivering many of our funded research and training initiatives whilst planning upcoming events. The funded teams have been carefully documenting their work in order to share practical insights from taking a community-centred approach to digital health
On Friday last week the NortHFutures delivered the annual Digital Health Symposium with our NHS partners. This was the fourth event of its kind and the second that NortHFutures has supported with Health Data Research (HDR) UK. This year’s symposium theme was 'Future Ready: Digital Health for Tomorrow’
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,
