# NIHR Hacking Child Health Tech Report 2025

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**Created:** 2025-03-27 12:35 UTC
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**Replies:** 2
**URL:** https://forum.rcpch.tech/t/nihr-hacking-child-health-tech-report-2025/345

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## Post #1 by @pacharanero

For general interest - this NIHR report came out last week. We as RCPCH Digital were invited to comment/feed back - I reviewed and didn't have any major additions or thoughts regarding the content which is all fairly unarguable.

I did feed back that in order to attract better funding and prominence to Child Health Tech we need to be actively lobbying in the right places, using all the levers NIHR, RCPCH, and other bodies have. We need to be shouting louder than a lot of other groups!

https://io.nihr.ac.uk/resources/reports/hacking-child-healthtech-2025-report/

https://io.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hacking-Child-HealthTech-2025-Report.pdf

### 5 Key Messages
(from their document)
**1. The Time to Prioritise Children is Now**
Driving children’s HealthTech innovation can
reverse the deterioration in children’s health

**2. Investing in Child HealthTech is Economically Smart**
The highest rates of return come from the earliest investments, and there is high potential for investing in early years innovation

**3. Scale Up, Rather Than Shrink Down**
Repositioning young children as the starting point for innovation unlocks creative, inclusive, workable design solutions that can be scaled up for everyone

**4. Connecting is Key**
Working together across sectors and actively involving children and young people will accelerate progress and reduce fragmentation in children’s HealthTech innovation

**5. For Us To Shape**
Technology revolution for children is underway at high pace. It is up to us to shape it, and ensure it’s impact on children and society is positive

[Hacking-Child-HealthTech-2025-Report.pdf|attachment](upload://9ddWQBwLxuucytDh0Yp1csyuNAn.pdf) (5.1 MB)

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## Post #2 by @dgm3333

Hi Marcus,
Thanks for this.
I have a GP-style proposal I've been working on with already one school on board and some more considering. Do you have any interested paeds who might consider collaborating / offering independent review. Could you email me? David.Mckenzie@nhs.net

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## Post #3 by @pacharanero

[quote="dgm3333, post:2, topic:345"]
Do you have any interested paeds who might consider collaborating / offering independent review. Could you email me?
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I'm not in a position to take on any additional work around seeking collaborators/review for your project sadly, but feel free to describe the project in more detail in #general and possibly also on the [Digital Health Networks](https://discourse.digitalhealth.net) and ask in both for people who might be interested in helping.

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