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More than half a million people in the UK have made organ donation decisions via NHS app, new figures show. People across England are being encouraged to use the NHS app to register their organ donation decision - as more than 7,000 patients actively wait for a transplant. The total number of organ donation decisions [...]
Here, our reporter Andrew speaks to Luke Starr (CCO) and Dr Steven Brooks (CMO) of Rapid Response Revival, the team behind the groundbreaking CellAED, a portable defibrillator. CellAED is a portable defibrillator that can be stored in the home, ready to be used incase of emergency. In this special report, we discuss innovation, boosting survival [...]
Recorded incidents involving physical violence and abuse are not uncommon in UK-based healthcare institutions. According to the 2022 NHS Staff Survey, almost 15 per cent of healthcare professionals experienced at least one incident of physical violence during the previous 12 months, with almost 30 per cent of staff experiencing some form of harassment, bullying or [...]
Health tech is set to boom in the coming years. But there’s still “persistent gender inequality” across the space. How can we better empower women in health technology? No matter which way you spin it - women are still a minority in tech. The rise of femtech has closed the gender gap to a point [...]
Tola Sargeant, managing director of analyst firm TechMarketView, examines the outlook for health tech spending in the NHS in 2023 and beyond... Looking to the year ahead, you don’t need to be an expert to see the immense pressure that the NHS is currently under. Workforce issues, the Covid-19 backlog and rising costs adding to [...]
Millions of NHS doctor’s hours and approximately £1bn has been lost to ‘inadequate’ IT systems, according to a new report from the British Medical Association… A new study by the British Medical Association (BMA) has found that the NHS loses 13.5 million hours of doctors' work annually due to inferior and inadequate IT systems. A [...]
We asked a handful of major investors to share details on what they're looking for from your health tech business in 2023... Securing investment is part of the growth process no matter which sector you’re in. For health technology, digital health and the like, it’s crucial to develop the right relationships with the right people, [...]
The word “burnout” is never far from the headlines, and the number of people suffering from it is rising fast. This app has been designed to tackle just that… A new app designed to help working people manage their own wellbeing and avoid burn-out was launched in time for the New Year. Bank of Me [...]
Chris Lindley, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust, shares his insights with Health Tech World... With the NHS under immense pressure, anything that we can do to make our procedures more efficient and effective has obvious upsides for clinicians as well as for our patients. One area in which significant improvement is being [...]
Hannah Thomson, CEO and founder of The Joy Club, speaks to Health Tech World about a future of healing loneliness, especially later in life, through online communities… The advent and exponential adoption of social media globally means that - in many ways - the world is more connected than ever before. Yet, loneliness is on [...]
