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Eka Ventures has closed its €91.5m Fund II to back UK startups in health, wellbeing and sustainability. According to Eka, the raise establishes it as the UK’s largest early-stage impact VC, investing in companies that deliver both commercial and societal benefits in health, wellbeing and sustainability. The oversubscribed fund has been backed by leading limited [...]
A new cancer trial aimed at training the immune systems of children and young people to fight the disease offers “a real sense of hope”, according to the chief executive of one of its funders. Up to 60 patients with difficult-to-treat solid tumours will be recruited in the UK and the US for the study, [...]
Trust boards need to adopt a dual-track funding strategy: protecting essential services while ring-fencing investment in digital capabilities that enable new models of care, says Richard Oswald, NHS Client Director at Exponential-e As the NHS starts its 2026/27 financial year, senior leaders across trusts and integrated care systems (ICSs) face one of the most delicate [...]
From saving surgeons’ precious time, to reducing surprises and clinical risks in theatre, cutting MDT time in half, and informing decisions before procedures, surgical teams in the SWASH+ consortium of NHS trusts are embracing a ’game changer’ in orthopaedic planning technology with Sectra. David Howard, orthopaedic surgical practitioner at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, gives [...]
The MHRA has secured £3.6m to expand AI Airlock, the UK’s first regulatory sandbox for AI medical devices. Following a successful second phase, the Department of Health and Social Care has allocated £1.2m a year for the next three years, from 2026 to 2029, to the programme. The newly approved multi-year funding will allow the [...]
Thousands of patients in Warrington are set to receive daily AI-powered health support as local GP practices introduce a new system to help manage long-term conditions and reduce pressure on NHS services. Warrington Innovation Network (WIN) Primary Care Network (PCN), which covers six surgeries and around 55,000 patients, has partnered with digital health provider Aide [...]
Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic Within the first few days of life, every baby born in England is offered a blood spot test, commonly known as the heel prick test. The NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme screens for nine rare but serious conditions and has been responsible for [...]
From hospital leaflets to spoken answers in dozens of languages, new research from the University of East London (UEL) suggests artificial intelligence could dramatically improve how patients learn about serious eye conditions. A research team led by UEL’s Dr Mohammad Hossein Amirhosseini and Dr Fatima Kalabi from Queen’s Hospital in London, in collaboration with Moorfields [...]
A smart IUD being developed in Oxfordshire could help fertility research and women's healthcare by tracking conditions inside the uterus. Verso Biosense is developing a wireless monitoring device that collects real-time data from inside the uterus, including temperature and oxygen levels. Researchers hope this will shed light on one of medicine's least understood organs. [...]
Pharmacierge, the UK’s premier private e-prescription and medication delivery service, has partnered with Tatler to present the Tatler Doctors Guide – an exclusive list of the UK’s leading private clinicians. To be published annually, the guide features the UK’s most renowned clinicians in private medicine, drawing on recommendations from more than 45 private GPs to [...]
