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Joyvié has raised £771k to launch reusable incontinence underwear for people with faecal incontinence. The Sussex-based female-led startup has closed its pre-seed funding round through angel investment and Innovate UK grant funding. The money will support a direct-to-consumer product launch later in 2026. It will also fund clinical pilots across care home, hospital [...]

Hospitals with higher empathy scores had better patient and staff outcomes, according to provisional research on NHS trusts in England. The study suggests trusts with higher empathy scores also spent less on agency staff, locums and consultants. Researchers created an empathy score for NHS trusts using publicly available information on organisational culture, leadership behaviour and [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a paper on how health AI could reshape policy-making, setting out both risks and opportunities. The paper examines how AI could affect the way health problems are defined, policy options are designed and the impact of decisions is assessed. It says AI could help policymakers analyse [...]

By Dr Ed Hutchison, clinical solutions specialist, Altera Digital Health AI is now impossible to ignore. You cannot move without seeing some sort of AI advert promising a capability that is going to revolutionise your life. Need a new fridge? It better have inbuilt AI. Need to book a holiday? Why don’t you talk to [...]

By Stephen Sutcliffe, director of innovation & technology solutions and finance & accounting, NHS Shared Business Services The NHS has no shortage of promising health technology. Pilots succeed, tools demonstrate value in individual teams, and there is rarely a scarcity of ambition. The harder challenge is what happens once the pilots conclude. Too many innovations [...]

Emergency medical service SAMU de Paris has achieved an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate four times the global average, through a rescue therapy called ECPR. Previously largely confined to hospitals, deployment on Paris streets has been supported in part with the help of handheld ultrasound technology and AR glasses from international health tech company Mindray. [...]

NHS data sharing could cut 20,000 A&E visits a year and save £20m annually, the government has claimed. Ministers say the NHS modernisation bill would require GPs and hospitals in England to securely share patient information. The bill, which is due to receive its second reading on Monday, also sets out plans to abolish NHS [...]

UNITE has named the first three digital health projects selected to support cross-border deployment in Europe. The Regional Innovation Valley project UNITE, coordinated by 28DIGITAL in Belgium and co-funded under Horizon Europe, has selected CARDIO-HUB, NEODATA+ and RAD-TRACK EU as its first joint interregional projects. The initiative said the projects mark a milestone in building [...]

NHS scanning trucks have detected more than 10,000 lung cancers in England, with more than three quarters caught at stages one or two, new research has revealed. People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stages are nearly 13 times more likely to survive for five years than those whose cancer is caught late. Local [...]

Sixty five per cent of employers are advancing women’s health at work, but progress remains fragmented across sectors, a new report has revealed. The findings come from the [w]Health Employer Index, a benchmark assessing how organisations embed women’s health into workforce strategy, leadership and operations. The analysis was developed by global consultancy Kearney with the [...]