Insight
By Danielle Delaney-Anderson, Principal Technical Consultant, Answer Digital In light of the NHS 10 Year Plan, the recently announced Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 represents a critical turning point for the NHS. For too long, patient data has been locked away in silos and has been inaccessible across care settings. The Act seeks to [...]
By Kyle Cromey, Chief Pharmacy Information Officer, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust In recognition of World Pharmacist Day on 25 September, I’m sharing insights as Chief Pharmacy Information Officer at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust (BFT). In this blog, I delve into how technology empowers me in my ever-evolving role as a pharmacist. For some background, at [...]
Paul O’Rourke, managing director of Next Stage Group, explores why smart technology in supported housing must be treated as a public health intervention, and how tech-enabled responsive environments can reduce long-term health harms linked to poor housing. We wouldn’t tolerate hospitals with mould on the walls or schools with broken heating. So why do we [...]
The Cheshire and Merseyside Pathology Network (CAM) is delivering one of the NHS’s most ambitious diagnostic transformations. Serving 2.7 million patients across five NHS Trusts, the programme is replacing multiple legacy Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) with a single, unified solution: Evolution vLab from Magentus. This shift will consolidate services into three laboratory hubs operating [...]
By Mark Matthews of The Motivational Speakers Agency Shafi Ahmed is a healthcare speaker, surgeon and innovator, known for leading the world’s first virtual reality operation. As a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, he has pioneered global surgical training through Google Glass and immersive technologies. Beyond the operating theatre, Shafi co-founded [...]
By Mr Kuen Yeow Chin, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Founder of Apex Skin Clinic Skin cancer remains one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time. In the UK alone, melanoma cases have more than doubled in the past 25 years, and the numbers continue to rise. While treatment outcomes improve significantly with [...]
By Oscar Daws, Co-founder and Managing Director, Tone Product Design It can be tempting to cut corners on design to save time or money. In healthtech and medtech, however, this is usually a false economy. Products that ignore or sideline human-centred design risk more than frustrated users – they may face poor adoption, patient safety issues [...]
A new health and wellbeing business support programme, created to accelerate new product and service development across West Yorkshire, has officially launched. Designed to kickstart new and emerging enterprises in health and wellbeing, the Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator (HHII) is being delivered as a strategic partnership between Kirklees Council, the University of Huddersfield and the [...]
By Roger Mazzella, Global Medical Industry Leader, Qt Group When designing a product, it’s natural to strive for innovation. However, in the MedTech space, chasing the latest features can sometimes sideline the very people who use these devices and applications. Users may be left struggling with complex interfaces that hinder rather than help. [...]
By Roy Wills, VP, Head of Healthcare Business and Partnerships, Intellias Medical imaging has always been at the heart of modern medicine – the lens through which clinicians see what the human eye cannot. Yet as imaging has evolved from grainy 2D pictures to ultra-high-resolution tomographic images, it’s also become a data-intensive discipline. [...]
