Innovation Directory – Wales

StatsWales is a free-to-use service that allows users to view, manipulate, create and download tables from Welsh data, including health and social care data.

Steddy Disability Aids is a retailer which provides a range of disability aids and care products to customers throughout South Wales. Steddy have sites in Bridgend and Neath and supply wheelchairs, wheelchair accessories, pill organisers, exercise therapy equipment and low-cost orthopaedic clothing

Sterling Pharma Solutions are a contract development and manufacturing company that focuses on providing small molecule and Antibody Drug Conjugate services spanning pre-clinical development to commercial manufacturing. The company also provide early-stage chemistry services for drug discovery. Sterling's Deeside facility provides the company's pre-clinical ADC research and development bioconjugation services

Sue Rees Associates are an executive search recruitment consultancy that specialises in the life sciences industry

SureChill is a provider of medical refrigerators for temperature-sensetive drugs and vaccines to be kept cool in harsh environments. These fridges do not need a constant power supply and hence can be use in areas that may be affected by power outages.

SMTL are part of NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) and provide a range of medical device and biological testing services for NHS Wales to assist with procurement.

SurgiNovi design and manufacture patient specific templates and surgical guides for orthopaedic surgeries, including producing custom made implants

The Swansea Bay City Deal is an investment of up to £1.3 billion in a portfolio of major programmes and projects across the Swansea Bay City Region. City Deal programmes and projects are based on key themes including economic acceleration, life science and well-being, energy, smart manufacturing and digital.

Local health boards are responsible for planning and delivering NHS services in their areas. Swansea Bay University Health Board is responsible for providing NHS, health and wellbeing services in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, as well as some specialist regional services.

Swansea University is attended by around 20,000 students, and houses three faculties; Humanities and Social Science; Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Science and Engineering. The faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences houses the Swansea University Medical School. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Swansea showed particular strength in Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy research.