NHG Health Adoption & Scale Healthcare (NASH) Innovation Fund

About the NHG Health Adoption & Scale Healthcare Innovation Fund

Supported by NHG Health, the NHG Health Adoption & Scale Healthcare (NASH) Innovation Fund aims to enable NHG campuses to better drive the innovation and capability development by gearing funds towards the cross-institution intra-cluster programmes.

NASH Innovation Fund aims to provide holistic innovation support within NHG Health cluster through 3 domains:

Domain A: Innovation Expertise
Domain B: Cluster Adoption and Scale
Domain C: Kaizen-enabled Point of Care

NASH Innovation Fund is only applicable to NHG Health employed staff.

For more information, please contact us at CHI.Grants.Mgmt.Office@nhghealth.com.sg.

Domain A - Innovation Expertise

Domain A aims to provide funding to invite overseas experts to share innovative ideas, best-in-class tools and practices, to build thought leadership and transform healthcare in NHG Health institutions.

Eligibility Criteria

Visiting expert(s) must engage in the following activities (“Domain A Purpose”):

o 1 CHI Masterclass session which is open to all the NHG Health and partners.

o 1 NHG Health leadership (involving C-Suite) engagement.

o 1 cross-institutions engagement (beyond the masterclass and leadership engagement mentioned above) and/or engagement which focus on our regional health with NHG Health’s role as regional manager.

Applicants must be NHG Health employed staff.
This funding excludes Research and HMDP Experts focusing on clinical service.
Co-funding of any visiting expert(s) who has been invited for other than a Domain A Purpose will not be allowed (e.g. Applicant intends to use NASH Domain A fund to co-fund expert’s cost for Conference/Event X).
However, a back-to-back funding for a Domain A Purpose in conjunction with another event is allowed (e.g. Expert is engaged for Conference/Event X from Day 1-3, and is engaged for a NASH

Exclusion criteria:

This funding excludes Research and HMDP Experts focusing on clinical service.
Co-funding of any visiting expert(s) who has been invited for other than a Domain A Purpose will not be allowed (e.g. Applicant intends to use NASH Domain A fund to co-fund expert’s cost for Conference/Event X).
- However, a back-to-back funding for a Domain A Purpose in conjunction with another event is allowed (e.g. Expert is engaged for Conference/Event X from Day 1-3, and is engaged for a NASH Domain A Purpose from Day 4-7).
- For back-to-back funding, Domain A will only cover incremental costs for the expert

Funding Quantum

Up to $25,000 per visiting expert within the awarded FY:

Covers accommodation, business class air tickets, local transportation, honorarium, entertainment, withholding tax, etc.

Grant Call Period

Grant Call will be from mid-Sep 2025 to mid-Nov 2025.

Submission and Award

Applicant should obtain endorsement by the institution CEO before submitting to the CHI Partnership Office (Main POC for Domain A) through the CHI@Campus Offices Admin leads or your institution’s admin lead.

o Where an application involves more than one (1) NHG Health institution(s) co-hosting the Domain A Purpose programme (with one of the institutions being the lead applicant), endorsement shall be provided by the leading institution.

o In the case where two (2) institutions are co-applying (i.e. co-owning the Domain A Purpose programme), endorsement from both institutions’ CEOs is required.

The review process will take approximately 2 months. During this time, Programme Lead will be approached via email to furnish any further clarifications.
Award results will be announced via email in Feb 2026.
Project duration should commence within FY2026.

Main Contact Details

For more information on Domain A, please contact main contact office (CHI Partnership Office) at:

· Ms Michelle Lee: michelle.sw.lee@nhghealth.com.sg

· Ms Patricia Chin: patricia.chin@nhghealth.com.sg

You may also approach your CHI@Campus Offices for endorsement and submission details.

Domain B - Cluster Adoption and Scale

Domain B aims to provide preliminary funding for team to adopt and scale proven innovation solutions from originating NHG Health institutions.

Eligibility Criteria

Successful validated solution:

o   Solution to be adopted can either be existing solution that has been validated or that can address unmet healthcare need.

o   The solution should be a proven innovative solution with promising clinical outcome and commercially viable (or sustainable).

o   Solution must have clear benefits to NHG Health and is aligned to NHG Health strategic goals & enablers.

o   Has obtained interest for cross institution deployment
Project team should comprise of at least 2 NHG Health institutions in mainstreaming the solutions to at least 2 NHG Health institutions.

o The NHG Health institution with the validated solution (i.e. Originating/Native institution) is eligible for the fund as long as the originating institution is either enhancing the solution for mainstreaming within their institution or involved in the mainstreaming of adopting NHG Health institution in the form of providing consultancy and advice.
Applicants must be NHG Health employed staff.

Funding Quantum

Base funding of $100,000, but up to $200,000, per project over 12 months with justification:

• Covers initial cost of purchase of solution,

• Infrastructure setup,

• Initial integration with existing system, etc.

Grant Call Period

Grant Call will be from Sep 2025 to Oct 2025.

Submission and Award

All applications require endorsement from the institutions’ CEOs.
The review process will take approximately 2 months. During this time, Project Leads will be invited to present their proposals to the Review Panel and participate in a Q&A session.
Award results will be announced via email in Feb 2026.
Project duration should commence within FY2026, with no further extension beyond the FY.

Main Contact Details

For more information on Domain B, please contact NASH Innovation Fund Secretariat at CHI.Grants.Mgmt.Office@nhghealth.com.sg.

You may also approach your CHI@Campus Offices for endorsement and submission details.

Domain C – Kaizen-enabled Point of Care

Domain C aims to support cluster-level prototyping CHILL (CHI Living Lab) and VirtCHILL (Virtual CHI Living Lab) projects.

Eligibility Criteria

Problem statement with a potential physical product-based solution (exclude digital, tech solution).
Project comprises of at least two NHG Health institutions.
Minimum team size of at least 2 individuals.
Open to all family groups.
Project team should obtain either respective institutions’ HOD or C-Suite to endorse.

Funding Quantum

Varies, range from $1,000 to $4,000 per project.

Grant Call Period

The funding will be done in the form of Hackathon format.

Please check with Main Contact Person for more details.

Submission and Award

Project should obtain endorsement by the institutions’ HOD or C-Suite before submitting application to Main POC (Camelia from CHI Kaizen).
Shortlisted teams would be invited to a full-day design workshop by CHILL and given 1 month time to develop their design and pitch.
Award results will be announced post-pitching session.

o Project duration would commence in FY2026.

o Project prototype development and support will be provided by CHILL.

Main Contact Details

For more information on Domain C, please contact main contact office (CHI Kaizen Office - CHILL) at:

· Ms Camelia Soh: camelia.soh@nhghealth.com.sg