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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, [...]
Health services provider FCMS has incorporated CLEO CORE into its Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) in Blackpool FCMS is a social enterprise, not-for-profit health and wellbeing provider, delivering 24-hour integrated care across multiple health economies. The CLEO Systems patient management system, CLEO CORE, supports urgent and primary care providers to deliver healthcare services in a variety [...]
A simple blood test for people with Type 1 diabetes which may enable some patients to stop taking insulin will be rolled out in Scotland. Health bosses say Scotland is the first country in the world to introduce this test which launched in hospital diabetes centres on November 1. Aimed to improve the accuracy of [...]
England's Covid-19 National Booking System will allow people to pre-book their booster appointment a month before they are eligible. Everyone aged over 50 and all those most at risk from Covid-19 should get a booster six months after their second dose. From today (November 8), they will be able to book their appointment after five [...]
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking examples of how data gathered from wearable technology can enhance health and wellbeing in soldiers. The defence community is looking at wearable devices as a way of gathering data that can be applied in tools that support and protect the capabilities of soldiers. By utilising the power [...]
Teesside University, based in North East England, has launched a programme to show students what a career in the life sciences could look like. The first cohort of the Life Sciences Manufacturing Academy saw students from Darlington College spending a week at Teesside University’s National Horizons Centre, hearing from their biotech experts, and colleagues from [...]
Amina Graham, executive director of people and systems at Housing 21, a not-for-profit providing housing for older people of modest means, discusses how integral digital transformation is to the care sector and its ability to meet residents' needs for the future. The pandemic accelerated digital transformation across many sectors, with advancements in technology noticeably changing [...]
Mark Herbert, managing director at corporate finance firm Shawpoint and Michael Squirrell, corporate partner at law firm Shakespeare Martineau, explore the steps MedTech companies can take in advance of a sale or investment. An ageing population and increasing public health expenditure makes the NHS an appealing market to overseas healthcare investors, with UK MedTech businesses [...]
Andrew Martin, senior sales and marketing director at EMEA and managing director UK at Egnyte, discusses the fastest growing trends in biotech. With the life sciences industry slowly ramping back up to pre-pandemic activity levels, the uncertainty of the last 18 months is starting to lift. As it does , we are seeing an acceleration of [...]
