The Charity
Supporting research, design and development of information technology to improve healthcare.
About Endeavour Health
Foundation
The Endeavour Health Charitable Trust was established in 2014 with an endowment by Dr David Stables.
Activities
The charity funds projects that are designed to enable new or improved healthcare services, and provides unrestricted open source technology for those projects.
In particular the charity focuses on projects that enable citizens to have personalised health management systems supported by their own health data.
About Endeavour Health
Community Interest Company
In 2024, 'Endeavour Predict CIC' was founded as a community interest company aimed at offering decision support services to assist patients in making informed health choices and advancing research in predictive health. The company emerged from the renaming of ClinRisk Ltd., renowned for its Qrisk tools, and was generously donated to the charity by Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox and the Revd Stephen Hippisley-Cox. Endeavour Predict CIC now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the charity.
Project Funding
- 2023 part funded an AI research project, CHARIOT, A Manchester University research project designing a Cardiovascular Health Assessment and Risk-based Intervention Optimisation Tool using causative inference
- Between 2014 and 2019, £3 million was donated to fund the Discovery project in order to design, build, and run the Discovery Data Service; with a further £0.5 million donated in 2021/2022.
- In 2014, £50,000 was donated to the PM Challenge Fund Report and £100,000 to the Leeds Patient Oriented IT Benefit Evaluation project.
About Endeavour Predict
Endeavour Predict is a community interest company primarily established to predict, anticipate, or inform individual health needs.
Endeavour PredictCharity Trustees
The people responsible for governing and guiding Endeavour Health Charitable Trust
Dr David Stables: Trustee, CEO
Formerly a General Practitioner, co-founder and director of EMIS specialising in IT systems for healthcare professionals, where he led the software development until 2013. He retired from EMIS in 2013 to establish this charity as an alternative approach to achieving the objectives. Also trustee of the Peter Sowerby Foundation.
Rachel Stables: Trustee
Formerly a counsellor and ran an advisory and information centre for vulnerable young people.
Andrew Whitwam: Trustee
Former director of EMIS specialising in IT systems for healthcare professionals, where he led the support services. Also trustee of the Whitwam Family Charitable Foundation.
James Berry: Trustee
Founder of the Adastra company, which supports 90% of urgent care organisations, James went on to become CTO of Advanced Computer Systems before retiring in 2017.
Discovery Data Service
Built, designed and operated by the charity's team as an open source platform, the service brings together clinical data for a patient from many different sources. It then links and converts the data to a single common data model and ontology, so that the data can be accessed in one way. The service covered a London population of 7.5 million and was gifted to NHS London in 2019
Discovery Data Service