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By Michelle Freer, transformation manager of the Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership A central theme of the NHS 10 Year Plan is the long-overdue recognition that prevention should ultimately outweigh cure in delivering the strategy. For the city of Nottingham, it signals a decisive shift towards seamless, neighbourhood-based healthcare, where support is provided closer to people’s [...]
Women's health has historically been underfunded, under-researched and underserved. Femtech is changing that, one innovation at a time. But the companies driving that change often go unrecognised outside their own communities. This award exists to change that. The Femtech Company of the Year award celebrates an outstanding company dedicated to advancing women's health through innovative [...]
By Dr Constantin Jabarin, CCIO, Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA) I’ve spent years working alongside my NHS clinical colleagues and operational leaders, and one theme is constant: documentation takes too much time and, with that, takes focus away from the patient. We clinicians often end up spending significant time writing notes, chasing documentation and [...]
The NIHR has awarded £2.31m to 24 chronic condition tech projects aimed at stopping a single long-term illness progressing into multi-morbidity. This funding will support the development of technology-assisted workforce solutions focused on preventing a single chronic condition from progressing to multi-morbidity, the presence of two or more long-term health conditions, in community, home and [...]
MiniMed began trading on Nasdaq on Friday after Medtronic's diabetes tech spinoff raised US$560m in its initial public offering. The company listed under the ticker "MMED" after offering 28 million shares at US$20 each. That was below the US$25 to US$28 a share range the company had suggested in filings last month. MiniMed [...]
By Dr Melinda Rees, CEO, Psyomics Spend enough time in the NHS and you stop flinching at the word "productivity”. You hear it in every strategy document, every board meeting, every government announcement. And almost every time, it means the same thing: do more with less. It's the wrong framing. After 25 years working in [...]
Four in 10 UK adults would use AI counselling, a global survey suggests, highlighting growing trust in ChatGPT for mental health support. The study, led by Bournemouth University, surveyed nearly 31,000 adults in 35 countries about their use of artificial intelligence large language models such as ChatGPT. It found that 41 per cent of participants [...]
In recent years, GLP-1-based programs have gained attention for their potential in addressing chronic conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. These programs involve the use of medications that mimic the action of the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone, which plays a key role in regulating blood sugar levels and appetite. As interest in GLP-1 [...]
A new Dravet syndrome drug has shown promising results in early clinical trials in children with the rare and hard-to-treat form of epilepsy. Dravet syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that causes severe epilepsy that is often resistant to treatment and can also lead to speech and developmental delays. Around 3,000 people in the UK [...]
Evondos Group, a European health-tech provider transforming home healthcare and the market leader in automated medication dispensing, has announced the appointment of two senior executives. To support rapid growth plans, Tom Ellison will take up the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO), while Rasmus Platz has been appointed Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO). Ellison has [...]
