February 2023: The first personalised educational package for patients living with stroke, My Stroke Companion, launched in December last year, marking the start of a year-long trial. The project aims to reduce health inequalities, by connecting people with personalised health information to help them manage their condition in a way that suits them. Currently launched […]
The U.K.’s Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt has said that the U.S. President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is a bid to play ‘catch up’ on clean energy investment. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.K. Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt said Friday that the U.S.’s Inflation Reduction Act was U.S. President Joe Biden’s attempt to play […]
Waiting lists continue to rise across the NHS in Scotland, with Health Boards lacking confidence in the ambitious targets set out within the government’s recovery plan, but digital pre-operative assessments (POA) could be the welcome relief needed to address surgery backlogs. In September 2022, it was reported that there are over 470,000 people waiting to […]
February, London, UK – Purpose-led technology company, AND Technology Research, is today announcing new research revealing the potential cost and time-saving impact of its latest iteration of its ground-breaking Tento+ testing dashboard. Tento+ is on course to boost the MedTech market significantly as more medical devices are set to enter service across the world. The medical device […]
Patient engagement platform (PEP) supplier, DrDoctor, has secured £10m of investment. The funding will expedite its plans for delivering patient-initiated models of care to integrated care systems (ICS). These include making integration enhancements to the platform to meet the needs of all providers, and implementing a new AI tool to help the NHS predict and […]
While the entire UK public sector is facing unprecedented funding challenges, most would agree that the NHS is facing the most pressure. From the ongoing recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the current crisis in emergency medicine, the return of flu season and the resurgence of Covid, to staff shortages and strike action […]
A new contract has been awarded to a delivery partner to support NHS England’s Digital Maturity Assessments programme. Through a contract award notice, it states an aim to “deliver a baseline and an enhanced assessment” of the seven domains of NHS England’s ‘What Good Looks Like’ framework, to include all NHS trusts, community integrated care […]
An investigational gene therapy for a rare condition which leads to a form of childhood dementia has shown promising early results in a proof-of-concept study. The Sanfilippo syndrome study was funded by Orchard Therapeutics, sponsored by the University of Manchester and conducted at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. The research found that four out of […]
DrDoctor has secured £10 million in investment through a funding round led by YFM Equity Partners, supported by existing investors, Ananda Impact Ventures and 24 Haymarket. The company, which supplies a patient engagement platform, said it will use the funding to accelerate its plans for delivering patient-initiated models of care to integrated care systems. The funding will also […]
A new digital dashboard has been created by several NHS Wales teams with the aim of making it easier for laboratory staff and clinicians to view information in south, west and mid Wales for patients who are awaiting kidney transplants. The dashboard has been designed to improve information sharing, and to provide the Welsh Transplantation […]
