The Mike Barnes Award for Innovation 2023

The winner of the Mike Barnes Award for Innovation 2023 is Melo - an AI driven app that is designed to help clinicians better understand challenging behaviours and improve the way data is used to support patients.

Previous Winners

2022 - Krysalis Consultancy

Digital health platform and vocational rehabilitation service solution; Neuro Logical was created by Krysalis Consultancy. 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.

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.

2019 – Goal Manager

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