NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has published its climate emergency and sustainability strategy for 2024-2027 along with an action plan for delivery, including focus on a ‘digital first’ approach “both to the work of its own staff and the delivery of training”. Placing emphasis on remote learning, the strategy states that work-related travel should be […]
West Northamptonshire Council has signed a new five-year contract with social care software specialist, System C, to implement its Liquidlogic case management application for adult social care in the region. The new cloud-based system is due to go live in February 2025, offering an integrated, comprehensive single view of individuals. It will incorporate a person’s […]
J o Franco still remembers the moment she realized that her nose worked. Growing up in Wilmington, a Los Angeles neighborhood dotted with oil refineries and next to one of the largest port complexes in the country, she’d always assumed she had a fever, or allergies: “I could never breathe through my nose at all,” […]
Voice-Care International Ltd is delighted to announce it has won the ‘Best Healthcare Technology Solution of the Year’ Category in the Health Tech Digital Awards 2024 for its Surgical Workflow Application. The Voice-Care Surgical Workflow Application has been developed in accordance with the WHO, LocSSIPs and NatSSIPs Checklists, alongside surgical clinicians, Heads of Governance and […]
The healthcare industry has become an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals, posing grave risks to patient safety, data security, and the integrity of critical systems. As healthcare organizations grapple with the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape, Trevor Cooke, Privacy Expert at EarthWeb, explores four essential insights into this critical concern. Fact 1: Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations are […]
University of Birmingham experts are developing a non-invasive saliva test that – within 15 minutes – might identify children across the Global South missing immunity to tetanus who may also have missed out on essential vaccines. Life-saving childhood vaccinations fail to reach over 20 million children worldwide and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in global coverage […]
A research study exploring the impact of remote monitoring on patients who had recently experienced a heart attack reportedly found that “telemedicine patients were 76 percent less likely to be readmitted to hospital within six months and 41 percent less likely to attend A&E, compared to those who followed normal care pathways”. The study involved […]
Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare has launched competitions seeking innovations in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), women’s health, stroke care and urgent and emergency care, with the aim of accelerating the uptake of innovations and facilitating the collection of evidence in real-world settings. The first of the competitions, focusing on AMR and women’s health, is at […]
BP in 2020 set out its ambition to become a net zero company “by 2050 or sooner.” Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images BP shares dropped 4.3% on Tuesday after the firm flagged it expects to post an impairment of up to $2 billion in the second quarter and warned of lower […]
While we’d always like our travels to go as smoothly as possible, we sometimes encounter medical issues that can seem scary, daunting, and impossible to overcome efficiently. To help with this, Steve Bater, Money Saving Expert at nhsdiscountoffers.co.uk suggest six tips to handle medical emergencies abroad and potentially avoid hefty medical expenses. 1. Pack a […]
