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Life Sciences Hub Wales’ 2024-25 Annual Report highlights how cross-sector collaboration is tackling real-world challenges and making a lasting difference to the health, wealth, and wellbeing of Wales and its people. Life Sciences Hub Wales exists to help propel inspiring life science innovations into frontline use in health and social care across Wales. As a [...]
By Steve Sanghera, co-founder and CEO, Inventus Group The UK Government’s Life Sciences Sector Plan sets a clear ambition for the UK to be the best place to discover, test and scale new treatments. A £600 million investment in advanced health data infrastructure, commitments to cut red tape, and an NHS technology passport to roll [...]
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has taken a significant step towards a more digital future by rolling out electronic test ordering using Clinisys ICE. The trust deployed the order communications system to around 2,000 clinical users across all of its wards, the maternity and paediatrics units, the emergency and same day emergency care departments, and [...]
By Sanius Health Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) is often seen as one of the great success stories in rare disease, but the next chapter is only just beginning. With targeted therapies now enabling many patients to live longer and more stable lives, it can be easy to assume the major challenges are behind us. But [...]
By Mikael Kågebäck, Chief Technology Officer at Sleep Cycle, Ph.D. What if the sound of your breathing could offer an early clue that something in your body is changing? What if a restless night carried more meaning than just poor sleep? These are no longer speculative questions. They are part of a new frontier at [...]
Patients with chest pains and suspected heart attacks are benefitting from better informed decisions in a high-impact initiative led by clinicians, writes Dr Krishnaraj Sinhji Rathod, consultant in interventional cardiology at Barts Health NHS Trust. He explains the clinical, environmental, and efficiency significance of digitising electrocardiograms, and the opportunity to scale success more widely in [...]
A computer scientist's view on the problem, by Kevin Monk, CEO, SARD. Our Electronic Health Records are a mess. A caveat I don’t work in EHR. I’m a computer scientist who runs a workforce optimisation consultancy in the NHS. But I live next door to the EHR people and as a concerned neighbour I poke [...]
The government’s plan for the NHS is a huge document. Jane Stephenson, chief executive of SPARK TSL, argues the key to unlocking its digital ambitions is to consider what it has to say about the shift from CDs to digital music. How can trusts and health boards make the same shift from analogue to digital [...]
By EatMoreFruit Communications Many health tech and medical device firms spend years refining technology, securing CE marks and FDA approvals, only to stumble at market launch. The missing link? Strategic PR that drives stakeholders from passive awareness to active adoption. The Adoption Funnel in Numbers According to Deloitte’s 2025 Global MedTech Survey, 61 per cent [...]
Venture capital firm Apollo Health Ventures is funding and co-founding early-stage companies that are transforming age-related diseases and ageing. Health Tech World speaks to co-founder Dr Alexandra Bause to find out more. Founded in 2017, Apollo Health Ventures has, to date, invested in 15 companies that are innovating in the longevity space. From DNA damage [...]
