NIHR awards funding for Recallify feasibility study in brain injury self-management
Recallify has been awarded funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) through its Invention for Innovation (i4i) FAST programme.
The funded project, titled “Feasibility and acceptability of Recallify for self-management after brain injury,” is an NIHR-funded Recallify feasibility study evaluating whether Recallify is an acceptable, usable, and feasible digital tool to support adults living with acquired brain injury (ABI).
Project structure of the NIHR Recallify feasibility study
After discharge, access to cognitive rehabilitation is often limited, despite strong evidence that memory and executive-function strategies can support independence, confidence, and participation in everyday life. Recallify was developed in the neuropsychology clinic to help address this gap, translating established rehabilitation approaches — including external memory aids, structured summarisation, reminders, and spaced retrieval — into a smartphone-based platform.
This 12-month NIHR-funded feasibility study will use a two-arm design comparing Recallify plus treatment-as-usual with treatment-as-usual alone. The evaluation will focus on usability, engagement, and acceptability, alongside early signals of impact on quality of life, functional independence, and healthcare resource use. The project will also generate early health-economic evidence and undertake preparatory work toward NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) and clinical safety requirements.
Study delivery, partnerships, and patient involvement
The study is delivered in collaboration with academic and health-economic experts, including Andrew Bateman at the University of Essex, and specialist input in health-economic data analysis to support future NHS commissioning decisions.
Patient and public involvement is central to the project, with people with lived experience of brain injury contributing to study design, participant materials, interpretation of findings, and dissemination.
By generating early clinical and economic evidence, this project represents an important step toward understanding whether AI-enabled tools like Recallify can play a meaningful role in supporting long-term self-management after brain injury and informing future NHS adoption.