HelpSoq has won the National Innovation Award 2022 with conviction. The team took home both prices, the one by the jury and the other by the audience.
And professional carers know why this is great. Because as long as compression stockings have existed, putting them on has always remained complicated. Especially when you have to put on twenty of them in a row every morning. But the HelpSoq is a real breakthrough. From now on, putting on these stockings takes no effort at all.
There were eight confirmed finalists and two available prizes. As the award ceremony approached, the HelpSoq video went viral online. Over 400,000 viewers shared our video. So the jury decided to award both prizes to one winner for 2022. And that had never happened before.
The National Innovation Prize for Health Care is organised by Health Valley. They want to accelerate innovations, so that healthcare can benefit from tomorrow’s solutions, today. That’s why the urgent message for HelpSoq is so clear: hurry up, because carers and nurses are eager to start using the HelpSoq. And the need is very high due to the workload, illness and downtime.
On the right of the photo you can see Harpert Wouters, the inventor of the HelpSoq. Although the industrial designers of NPK in Leiden also contributed greatly to its development. Harpert and his team were very busy at their booth at Health Valley. Because the attention for the winner was enormous. By the way, the total prize won was € 15,000. With which we can make the first devices available to overburdened professionals as soon as possible.
