Content by Open Medical for HTN’s latest feature series focusing on sustainability.  Everyone is accountable 80 percent of the carbon footprint of the NHS is attributable to clinical decisions. Although adjusting clinical practice presents a significant opportunity to decrease carbon emissions, it’s not that simple. Several factors come into play, such as supply procurement, availability of environmentally […]

Tiktok is set to introduce a one-hour a day limit  feature for young people, in an effort to improve their wellbeing. This means that any user who is under the age of 18 will not be able to access the app for more than 60 minutes a day, unless they enter a passcode and make […]

InnoScot Health has published findings from a recent survey highlighting how 90 percent of staff agree that “innovation must be at the heart of improving NHS Scotland services and helping to tackle pandemic backlogs”. The research study asked 602 NHS staff between October and November 2022 a series of questions around innovation and change for […]

Brainomix, the AI-powered medtech solutions company, today announced that its Brainomix 360 e-ASPECTS tool for stroke has received FDA clearance, enabling the Oxford-based company to deploy its cutting-edge stroke AI imaging platform to US stroke centers. With deployments across more than 30 countries, Brainomix’s AI stroke software has been studied and validated in more than […]

NHS Highland – Argyll & Bute Health & Social Care has selected Maintel, the pioneering cloud and managed services company, to deliver a new and improved telephony system. In a new hybrid working environment, 2,500 staff across 8 community hospitals and selected GP practices now benefit from Maintel’s cutting edge, reliable and resilient telephony solution with […]

Mobiquity, a digital consultancy that designs and delivers innovative digital products and services for the world’s leading brands, released today its first digital Healthcare Features Radar, which unveils the most commonly used mobile app features designed to engage and empower people living with chronic conditions. The report uncovers how certain mobile app features engage users […]

UK GPs experience the highest stress and lowest job satisfaction compared to GPs in 9 other high-income countries, according to new analysis of Commonwealth Fund data from the Health Foundation. Just a decade earlier UK GPs were among the most satisfied of any country. A new Health Foundation report published today paints a grim picture […]

Respiratory diseases are a major factor in winter pressures faced by the NHS: hospital admissions for respiratory disease are three times as likely as those for all other causes. Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a key intervention in the NHS Long Term Plan, which has made respiratory disease — and its impact on people’s quality of […]