We build digital health ventures.
And the people building them.

For founders, university spinouts and NHS innovation teams.

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01 Audiences

Three buyers. One method. Pick your lane.

UXC Accelerate adapts to where you're starting from — but the underlying engine is the same. Iterative. Behaviourally-informed. Evidence-driven.

01 For founders

Get build-ready, get funded, get adopted.

Pre-seed to Series A digital health founders who need clarity, conviction and an evidence base — without losing 18 months to dead-ends.

Engagement12 wks · cohort

OutcomeFunded venture

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02 For universities

Translate research into ventures.

TTOs and spinout teams bridging the TRL gap. We design the accelerator, train the founders, and connect the spinout to clinic.

Engagement6–18 months

OutcomeSpinout pipeline

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03 For organisations

Accelerate change at organisational scale.

Corporates moving through transformation. NHS bodies, innovation teams, accelerator commissioners. Wherever the people side of change has to land at scale — with Project5 and national programmes as the proof.

Engagement3 – 24 mos

OutcomeChange that holds

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Twenty minutes. Three useful questions. A written read either way — within 48 hours.

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02 The method

Three stages. One loop. Built to be re-run.

The U·X·C engine: User research, eXperience iteration, evidence-led Change. Not a single waterfall — a sprint cycle that keeps re-entering discovery.

Stage 01 · ~3 wks

User

Discover

Ethnographic research, jobs-to-be-done, behavioural diagnostics. We find out what's actually broken — clinically, operationally, behaviourally — before anyone touches a build.

Deliverables

Stakeholder map + power dynamics
Jobs-to-be-done backlog
COM-B behavioural diagnostic

Stage 02 · ~6 wks

eXperience

Accelerate

Service blueprints, prototypes, founder coaching. Two-week sprints with real users in the loop from week one. Behavioural patterns built into the design itself.

Deliverables

Hi-fi prototype, clinician tested
Service blueprint + roles
Weekly founder 1:1 coaching

Stage 03 · ~3 wks

Change

Evidence

Implementation playbook, adoption metrics, evidence pack. The thing that makes commissioners say yes — and clinicians actually use it past week six.

Deliverables

Adoption KPI dashboard
Commissioner-ready evidence pack
Hand-off + 90-day retro

↻Every loop re-enters discovery — no waterfalls, ever. Full method →

03 Outcomes

What moved when the method ran.

Real scale across NHS digital health work since 2018.

NHS wellbeing — burnout prevention

5,000+

NHS staff supported through wellbeing sessions to prevent burnout — across local, regional and national teams since 2018.

Source: uxcgroup.com/nhs

Public-sector evaluations

100+

Public-sector evaluations supported by the UXC team — innovation programmes, change initiatives and clinical-pathway work.

Source: uxcgroup.com/abouttus

Track record

200+

NHS teams supported with development — local, regional and national

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£2.5m+

in research and innovation grants captured by the team

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1,000+

wellbeing practitioners trained by the team

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5 yrs

of primary-care learning, published as the book Leading Primary Care

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It's that psychological safety for someone to lead an intense project — and still come out sane at the other end.

Clinical lead After UXC coaching · NHS Quoted at uxcgroup.com — used here with the parent practice's permission

04 Work in the world

Things we helped ship.

A handful from the last seven years. Each one started in discovery, ran the loop, and made it past the pilot.

★ Flagship · Project5 2020 — 2025

Project5 — wellbeing for the NHS, built under pressure.

Project5 — free wellbeing service for NHS staff

A free mental-health and wellbeing service for NHS staff. Set up by UXC at the start of COVID. Bringing together a team of specialists to deliver a massive value gift to the NHS. Zero funding. Zero ask from the state. Partnered with the NHS wellbeing taskforce. Recognised with a Points of Light award from the Prime Minister.

15,000+

wellbeing sessions delivered at no cost to the NHS

£1.5m+

value of the gift to the NHS · all volunteer-delivered

★

Points of Light · PM award

National · UK primary care 3-year programme

Coached the national digital transformation team.

UXC coached the national team responsible for the UK's entire primary care digital transformation — and the national clinical lead — across a three-year programme. Strategic, behavioural and team-development work at the level where national policy meets implementation.

Devon NHS STP multi-award nominated

Devon Digital Accelerator.

Change-management programme and research evaluation for the Devon NHS STP. Supported the rapid implementation of online consultation across primary care — and the blueprint that scaled to support the national change programme during COVID.

Devon-wide · 120+ teams regional

Primary Care Digital Optimisation.

Regional change-management programme delivered to 120+ NHS teams across the whole of Devon. Regional conferences, leadership coaching to build change capability, and educational assets for every team.

Selected past UXC partners — NHS, university and innovation organisations

Past partners · selected2018 — present

The visible partners.

Many of our corporate clients we don't name — we work as their secret sauce, on the inside. The logos here are the visible subset. You get the same confidentiality offer.

05 Recognition

Award-winning, measurably.

Independent recognition — selected from a longer list across health innovation, neurology, patient safety and primary-care technology.

2024

Tech South West · Spotlight Award

Winner — regional technology innovation recognition.

★ Winner

2020

Points of Light · Project5

Prime Minister's award for outstanding voluntary service — recognising Project5, the free wellbeing service for NHS staff during COVID.

★ Awarded — pointsoflight.gov.uk/project5

2020

Building Better Health Award

Best Use of Technology (Primary / Community Care) — winner.

★ Winner

2019

BMJ Awards · Education Team of the Year

British Medical Journal Awards — winner.

★ Winner — bmj.com/awards

2018

HSJ Patient Safety Awards

Improving Efficiency in Healthcare with Technology — winner.

★ Winner — hsj.co.uk/awards

2016

SUDEP Institute Challenge · 1st place

USA · $30,000 prize. Recognised for digital innovation in epilepsy care.

★ 1st place

2016

BMJ Awards · Neurology

British Medical Journal Awards — winner.

★ Winner — bmj.com/awards

Start here

Ready to ship something real?
Start with a 20-minute call.

We'll diagnose where you are, name the next move, and decide together whether UXC is the right fit. No pitch deck. No CRM follow-up loop. Written diagnosis sent within 48 hours, regardless of fit.

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Duration 20 min · video call

With Dr. Craig Newman, founder

Prep None — just show up

Next Written diagnosis · 48h

Or — start with a fixed-price step £750 All-inclusive

The Formulation. A needs assessment in one meeting.

90 minutes with both Chartered Psychologists. You leave with a two-side written formulation of your challenge — current state, maintaining factors, untapped resource, diagnostic needs and a first-pass intervention. Designed as a needs assessment to support your budgeting and resource-allocation decisions.

          90 min · meeting
          2 psychologists · both involved
          2-side formulation document
        

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