Inside the Healthcare Innovation Centre

The UK's First Healthcare Innovation Centre

A fully operational simulation and demonstration facility, built to mirror real clinical environments without the pressures of a live hospital.

Operating Theatre Intensive Care Unit Emergency Ward Clinical Washroom Breakout Lounge
Overview

A unique space for the healthcare industry

Alongside our industry partners, we are proud to be home to the UK's first Healthcare Innovation Centre in the North West. The centre is the result of six years of planning, development and collaboration, informed by the group's experience in delivering healthcare projects across the UK and internationally.

Working closely with architects, designers, medical professionals, and technology partners, we've developed a space that reflects the challenges of real clinical environments while creating the freedom to explore new ideas, products and technologies.

5
Clinical Environments
6 years
Planning & Development
1st
Of its kind in the UK
Inside the Centre

Five environments, one facility

01

Operating Theatre

A fully functioning OR with medical gas supply, pendants, and integrated AI camera systems, allowing healthcare teams to see integrated theatre systems first-hand.

Operating theatre
02

Intensive Care Unit

A simulated ICU environment showcasing bedhead services, medical gas integration, monitoring systems and infection control design.

Intensive care unit
03

Clinical Washroom Areas

A fully constructed HTM-compliant clinical washroom highlighting infection prevention measures and compliant hygiene infrastructure.

Clinical washroom
04

Emergency Ward Area

An adaptable emergency care setting with vertical and horizontal bedhead trunking, demonstrating different infrastructure layouts in a realistic clinical environment.

Emergency ward area
05

Breakout Lounge

A spacious open-plan break-out space with a large meeting table, lounge, kitchen and the latest audio-visual technology for presentations, seminars and learning.

Breakout lounge
Flexible. Adaptable. Built to Evolve.

A world-class simulation and demonstration space

The HIC includes a fully operational operating theatre, intensive care unit, emergency ward area and clinical washroom. Each environment has been designed to demonstrate how clinical infrastructure, technology and equipment come together in practice.

Unlike traditional showrooms, the centre provides an immersive environment where products and systems can be experienced as they would be within a working healthcare setting. It gives visitors the opportunity to see how different technologies interact, learn how to get the most out of them and explore potential solutions in a way that simply isn't possible inside a live hospital.

Industry Partners

Built in collaboration

See it as it works, not as a showroom

Experience the centre as you would a live clinical setting, book a guided visit or arrange a private demonstration for your team.

Book a Visit

Arrange your visit

Tell us a little about your team and what you'd like to see. We'll be in touch to confirm a date and tailor the visit to your interests.

Prefer to email?
bookings@the-hic.co.uk