The Mike Barnes Award for Innovation 2022

This year’s winner is Krysalis Consultancy for their digital health platform and vocational rehabilitation service solution – Neuro Logical.

Neuro Logical is a neuro-OT digital health platform that delivers a vocational rehabilitation solution to managing acquired brain injuries in the workplace. Krysalis was founded by clinical director Jo Throp in 2006. She leads a nationwide team of specialist neurological occupational therapists who have been providing community based neuro rehabilitation services for more than 16 years.

Neuro Logical uses Krysalis’ specialist expertise to identify and remove the barriers of complex neurological conditions that would otherwise limit potential and opportunity. It helps individuals and the workplace recognise what is possible.

It works by recording patient experiences and perceptions of self, creating a ‘real-world’ profile of needs, fostering engagement and motivation via an app. This then allows the occupational therapist to create the best fit environment, roles and occupations for a patient.

Previous Winners:

2021 - MyAbility
This innovation was created by Dr Andrea Pickering, Consultant Clinical Psychologist of Recolo; Fran Sephton, Emma Bowers and Niki Dutton, Highly Specialised Speech and Language Therapists at AT Therapy. They are being supported by the National Institute for Health Research to advance their project and mentoring from Dr Penny Trayner from Goal Manager.

2020 – Alfred

Dr Ellis Parry of Neumind won the award for his app 'Alfred.' Please click here to see more about Ellis and Alfred! Ellis has won several other awards for Alfred most recently the Young Innovators Next Steps award to provide additional support for the UK’s most promising young entrepreneurs. You can read more about this award in this article from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/29/inventor-of-brain-injury-app-wins-second-young-innovators-prize

2019 – Goal Manager

Dr Penny Trayner won the first ever Mike Barnes Innovation Award in 2019. You can read more about Goal Manager here https://goalmanager.co.uk/about-us/. Penny also made a short film about how the Innovation Award helped her make progress.  To view please click here.