Medtech
Dr Anas Nader, CEO and co-founder of Patchwork Health, explains how innovative new technologies are being used to combat the NHS burnout epidemic. You only need to look at the panic-fuelled petrol queues dominating recent headlines to know that, when an essential resource like fuel runs out, it’s treated as a national emergency. However, right [...]
HT World joins CPI on the medical device development journey.
In the third part of his Reluctant Entrepreneur series for Health Tech World, Dr DJ Hamblin-Brown shares his number one rule for doing business as an entrepreneur. It may seem incredible to the modern mind that for much of human history blood was considered a humour; a static receptacle of various qualities. The conception of [...]
A novel non-fusion surgical technique that aims to create a straight spine in children diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has been demonstrated on the ABHI Surgical Simulation Theatre at Future Surgery Show 2021. Vertebral body tethering (VBT) is a promising new procedure currently being trialled in the UK for the first time. A simulation of the technically [...]
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) will develop tools and training to reduce brain injuries at birth, UK health bosses have announced. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said RCOG will develop tools to monitor and respond to a baby’s wellbeing during labour and to manage complications with babies’ positioning during [...]
Dr Louise Rix, a former VC at Forward Partners, will take up a new role as chief medical officer at femtech start-up Béa Fertility. Co-founded by Tess Cosad, embryologist David O’Rourke and product engineer George Thomas, Béa Fertility is developing at-home fertility treatments for people who are struggling to conceive naturally. As chief medical officer, [...]
A new virtual MedTech summit will welcome SMEs, innovators, academics and clinicians from across the UK. The North-South MedTech Summit, led by the NIHR Surgical MedTech Co-operative and Bournemouth University in partnership with the OVHcloud Startup Program, is powered by Empact Ventures. The free-of-charge virtual event will take place on November 26 and aims to [...]
People who suspect they may have experienced a side effect from medical devices, medicines or vaccines are being encouraged to report it to the government's Yellow Card scheme. The scheme, which is run by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), aims to quickly detect whether the safety of medicine or medical devices may [...]
England could be the first country in the world to prescribe medicinally licensed e-cigarettes to help reduce smoking rates. E-cigarettes could be prescribed on the NHS in England to help people stop smoking tobacco products, as health and social care secretary Sajid Javid welcomed the latest step forward in the licensing process for manufacturers. The [...]
A UK-based business has received £2.85million investment funding to forge ahead with its development of the Occuity Indigo, an innovative non-contact, optical glucose meter. The device will allow the 4.7million people in the UK with diabetes to monitor their blood-sugar levels through a simple scan of the eye. Occuity, the medical technology start-up, which is developing [...]
