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Chesham-based Lightpoint Medical has received the CE mark approval for the first robotic gamma probe to be commercially available to European hospital systems. SENSEI has been designed for intra-operative detection of sentinel lymph nodes, as well as cancer metastasis through the lymphatic system. The technology promises more precise, targeted cancer surgery and is applicable across [...]
Silverline Care, a Glasgow-based company which operates 12 elderly care nursing homes across Scotland and the North of England, has utilised Perfect Ward’s digital technology to communicate with staff and the friends and family of residents. Silverline Care is using Perfect Ward to drive quality improvements. It has recently added new quality processes, new reports [...]
The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) has strengthened its board with a new appointment. Richard Stubbs has worked in the NHS for almost 20 years and is the CEO at Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network. As a member of the NHSA board, Stubbs will represent the North’s Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and [...]
Residents and care professionals across Swindon and Wiltshire are set to have a new digital integrated care record to join up care across the region. Following a procurement process, the local clinical commissioning group has awarded the contract to Graphnet to deliver its CareCentric shared record software. CareCentric is already consolidating care records in neighbouring [...]
Visionable has renewed its offer of free video calls to connect hospital patients with their loved ones as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The company, which has developed a video collaboration platform that is used for multi-disciplinary team meetings and virtual clinics across the NHS, created Visionable Connect in the first wave to support patients who [...]
A robot-assisted prostate surgery at King Edward VII’s Hospital was showcased to leading medical specialists and fellows around the world late last year. HT World spoke to a professor from the hospital about the future of the technology. The successful surgery, which took one and a half hours to complete, was performed by consultant urological surgeon Paul Cathcart [...]
Belgium-based Endo Tools Therapeutics (ETT), a developer of advanced endoscopic medical devices for use by gastroenterologists, has secured €8m through a series D funding round. The transaction, led by White Fund, is supported by new private investors, as well as the existing investors FPIM-SFPI, Epimède and Chagral Invest. ETT has developed a triangulation platform, Endomina, [...]
The UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the use of an MRI-based technology that maps the effects of COVID-19 on several of the body’s key organs. Perspectum’s CoverScan MD technology enables healthcare providers to identify coronavirus-related systemic organ damage through scans of patient’s hearts, lungs, livers, as well as other internal organs, and [...]
Oxfordshire-based Owen Mumford, a medical device manufacturer, has been appointed as the sole supplier for insulin safety pen needles by the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership. Ateria SafeControl safety pen needles will now be used in all NHS Wales hospital environments, as well as by community nurses who also have access to the new procurement framework. The device is also listed on the Drug Tariff, following its approval for use by the [...]
London-headquartered Ampersand Health has launched a new digital therapeutic to support people with Inflammatory Arthritis. Clinical trials are currently underway of My Arthritis DTx, which has been developed by Ampersand Health in collaboration with leading specialists across the UK, including experts from King’s College Hospital, University Hospitals Dorset and the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS). The digital therapeutic will enable people living with [...]
