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While Covid-19 has delayed many hospital treatments, new breakthrough in biopsies mean many patients will not suffer delays. Waiting times across the board increased in 2020 as the NHS coped with the global pandemic and soaring infection rates. But thanks to new technology patients waiting for a prostrate biopsy will be able to get much [...]
A new online marketplace is aiming to disrupt the UK care products sector. The platform, carestockroom.com, enables care service leaders to gain full price transparency and stock availability information across the entire range of products they need to operate their services safely and effectively. It is free to all care services; tapping into the smaller [...]
An emerging type of vaccine that has risen to prominence in the COVID-19 pandemic could be applied to cancer treatment, research suggests. Traditionally, vaccines consist of small or inactive doses of the proteins produced by the disease-causing organism – or the organism itself. They are designed to provoke an immune response. But messenger RNA (mRNA) [...]
GPs and other NHS prescribers may have helped avoid tens of thousands of falls amongst the elderly after using prescribing decision technology to deliver guidance on avoiding adverse drug side effects, a study suggests. Greater scrutiny in prescribing amongst elderly patients may have prevented 26,000 falls in a single year, according to new analysis by [...]
A new system has been announced which potentially could improve 999 response times and care in the UK. Emergency services will be able to receive fast and accurate access to critical medical and personal details during a response call. The system means data can be received from connected devices and sent to emergency communications centres [...]
The digital revolution remains a challenge for the NHS but one it needs to embrace head on. Here Hazel Jones, head of health at Made Tech, explores how building a different mind set will revolutionise health services. In my recent experience working as a digital leader within the NHS, I’ve experienced first hand the struggle [...]
Teesside has further bolstered its reputation as a hub of the bioscience sector with a new cell and gene manufacturing therapy centre. The National Horizon Centre, part of Teesside University, has been selected as the National Training Centre for the Advanced Therapies Skills Training Network (ATSTN). Last month it was announced a new Covid-19 vaccine [...]
Experts say the best way to treat a patient effectively and safely is with all their information in the right place, structured in the right way. So sharing data has never been more important. Jon Reed of Future Perfect (Healthcare) discusses what paperless means for professionals today. Over the past few years, there has been a [...]
Millions of people are affected by weaknesses in their hands due to age or chronic illnesses like Multiple Sclerosis or carpal tunnel syndrome. Now a robotic glove is being designed which could change sufferers’ lives forever and give people greater independence. The glove based on AI technology has been given business support from Edinburgh’s Business [...]
Mike Bewick, England’s former deputy medical director, international healthcare advisor Dr Jim Bonnette, and Dr Sheuli Porkess, the former director of research, medical and innovation at ABPI, join the advisory board at clinical data analytics provider C2-Ai. Three high profile individuals in healthcare and pharmaceuticals have joined the advisory board of health technology provider C2-Ai. [...]
