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In the UK, the NHS radiology workforce is chronically understaffed, with a shortfall of around 33 per cent – and the issue is getting worse. In fact, by 2025, the Royal College of Radiologists estimates that the shortfall will reach 44 per cent – with 3,600 new radiologists needed. Put simply, while demand for diagnostics [...]
The growing awareness around mental health in sport has led to two new client wins for wellbeing technology start-up Frog Systems. The company’s software was selected by United Leicester and Switch the Play for two significant projects - a free digital wellbeing hub for sports fans in the city of Leicester and a platform to [...]
A UK medical devices company specialising in the development of surgical solutions using the patented polymer technology NovoSorb® will be joining the ABHI UK Pavilion at MEDICA 2021 to launch its revolutionary NovoSorb BTM (Biodegradable Temporising Matrix) technology into the European market. Founded in 2004, PolyNovo’s mission is to empower clinicians across the globe to [...]
A £15.9m contract has been awarded to Citadel Health to provide new technology to NHS Wales; in a deal with will create the largest and most inclusive single laboratory information management system in the UK. The contract aims to bring together the management of end-to-end patient testing for every discipline across Wales. It is hoped [...]
By Dr Matt Wilson, CEO and founder at uMed. Delivering clinical studies at a primary care setting is hard. One of the biggest challenges is that clinicians and allied health professionals have limited capacity to support the extensive logistics required for recruiting and engaging patient volunteers. It requires time, knowledge of the research process, and often [...]
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 [...]
Virtual labs platform Labster has acquired UbiSim, the virtual reality training platform for nursing. Labster, founded in Denmark in 2012, is a learning platform featuring science learning resources, including virtual science simulations, manuals, lab reports, and 3D animated videos. UbiSim, was established four years ago in Switzerland. It offers immersive virtual training simulations for nurses and [...]
Wearables have been big news over the past few years, no more so than in the field of healthcare. And as the pandemic has changed the way we live, work and access healthcare, innovation in health wearables has continued apace, meaning everyone can take ownership of their physical and mental wellbeing better than ever before. [...]
Health Tech World recently hosted a roundtable featuring leading experts from across the biomanufacturing sector. The wide-ranging discussion, held in partnership with Invest Tees Valley, covered the challenges and opportunities of UK biomanufacturing and the barriers that must be addressed in fulfilling the sector’s potential. Much of the focus of the discussion was on Tees [...]
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