Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is the latest large healthcare provider to go live with communication app, CardMedic. The trust-wide rollout to 7,500 staff follows a successful year-long pilot in the maternity department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Woolwich. Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust delivers acute and community services to over one million people […]
Nothing compares to the perfect summer run. All winter, even through spring, I sustain myself with the dream of jogging in shorts down a dry, grass-lined path, unencumbered by puddles or black ice. But that dream is becoming more elusive. Now, in mid-June, I already dread the prospect of being outside past about 7:30 in […]
Tesla Model Y has again topped the list of most American-made cars, but the electric automaker has lost its clean sweep of the top 4. Thanks to Tesla’s vertical integration approach, which results in the automaker making a lot of its parts itself and in the US for the vehicles it manufactures in North America, […]
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has published its annual plan for 2024/25, with a key priority to become “a more digitally-enabled and information-driven organisation”. Looking firstly at the delivery of safe, high quality care, the trust highlights an overarching aim around “equitable clinical prioritisation, influenced by active use of data”; as part of this, […]
More than 500 staff members from Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) have been recognised at special tea party events hosted to celebrate those nominated as part of this year’s HHFT People Awards. Colleagues and teams from across Hampshire Hospitals came together to enjoy a scrumptious afternoon tea, hear more about the achievements of nominees […]
Researchers in the US are developing a new range of wound care technologies, including smart bandages that would automatically sense and respond to changing conditions inside a wound. The high-tech dressings would provide continuous data on healing and potential complications, including infections or abnormal inflammation, and could deliver medications or other treatments in real time. […]
NHS Dumfries & Galloway chief executive Julie White has shared an update with every citizen in Dumfries and Galloway on the cyber attack earlier this year, stating to residents to “assume that some data relating to you is likely to have been copied and published”. The letter adds that “the criminals were able to access and […]
A nationally recognised app to help with common musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries and conditions is now being rolled out across Cumbria. If you have muscle or joint problems, the free getUBetter app, which has been designed in collaboration with local health professionals is now available to download. Laura Hocking, Highly Specialist MSK Physiotherapist from North Cumbria […]
Lesa Walton suffered for years with rheumatoid arthritis. “It was awful,” said Ms. Walton, 57, who lives in Wenatchee, Wash. “I kept getting sicker and sicker.” She also had high blood pressure, and she was obese. Doctors told her to diet and exercise, which she did, to no avail. Then she found a doctor who […]
