22/10/2025
NHS CEP Patient Entrepreneur Programme
Are you a patient or family carer whose experience has led you to develop a healthcare innovation? Do you want to learn new skills to help scale this idea?
This support programme could be for you!
We are delighted to announce a third cohort of the NHS Patient Entrepreneur Programme. Based on the highly successful NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP), this programme is specifically for people who have experience health care services or of a long-term health condition and have used this experience to develop healthcare innovations. We know that many patients and family carers have developed innovations and inventions that can improve healthcare, but people often need support to move their innovation beyond design phase. This free,12-month support programme gives successful applicants access to workshops and webinars, mentoring, business planning sessions, healthcare experts and taught modules, a network of mentors and more.
Applications for this programme will open on the 3rd November and close on the 28th November 2025. Find out more at www.nhscep.com/pep
So, if you are a patient with lived experience of an illness or condition who has developed an innovation to improve patient care, this is your chance to scale your idea with the help of the NHS CEP Patient Entrepreneur Programme.
About us What is the Patient Entrepreneur Programme? The NHS CEP Patient Entrepreneur Programme (PEP) is a programme aimed at people with lived experience (as a patient or family carer) of a condition who have developed a new innovation to improve patient care. The programme aims to give individuals...