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This online workshop will provide the opportunity for developers of new technologies for the diagnosis or monitoring of patients with acute or chronic breathlessness in primary care or in the community to have focussed discussions with researchers from the NIHR Community Healthcare MIC and its strategic partners. Developers will receive immediate advice from the team, and we will discuss the potential to take technologies forward into joint funding applications.

Recent years have witnessed considerable exciting innovation in early cancer detection diagnostics. As primary care researchers with an interest in early cancer detection, we are keen to support developers through provision of advice and through joint funding applications to generate vital evidence of test performance to inform commissioners of healthcare.

This online workshop will provide the opportunity for developers of early cancer detection diagnostics to have focussed consultations with researchers from the NIHR Community Healthcare MIC and its strategic partners who have expertise in early cancer detection. Developers will receive immediate advice from the team, and we will discuss the potential to take technologies forward into joint funding applications.

***Date TBC***

Early detection of cancers is an NHS and CRUK priority and an area of considerable innovation by researchers and developers of diagnostics.

Dr Brian Nicholson is a GP and Cancer Detection Lead for the Nuffield Department of Primary Care and a MIC key researcher. He is leading a number of research programmes in collaboration with the Oxford CRUK Cancer Centre, which are evaluating novel methods for cancer detection.

Our workshop will provide the opportunity for developers of early cancer detection diagnostics to have focussed consultations with researchers from the NIHR Community Healthcare MIC and its strategic partners who have expertise in early cancer detection.

Four 40 minute appointments will be available for companies to meet with the panel. Companies will have the opportunity to make a 10 minute presentation of their diagnostic followed by focused discussions regarding the technology, how it might be incorporated into community healthcare and the next steps required in evidence generation. The aim will be to take promising technologies forward beyond the meeting into collaborative funding applications which will allow the required evidence to be generated.

We invite interested developers of diagnostics to complete an expression of interest form to register their interest to attend the workshop; we will be particularly interested to hear from developers of multi-cancer diagnostics for which samples could be collected in primary care or other community healthcare settings.

Successful applicants will be offered an appointment to join our workshop, which will take place in February or March online.