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More than 25,000 nurses and care workers are now using the digital quality improvement app developed by Perfect Ward. Additionally, over the last five years, a total of 500,000 quality inspections have been conducted, with over 100,000 questions stored in the Perfect Ward database. Perfect Ward’s 500,000th health and quality inspection was carried out by [...]
Mologic, a developer of diagnostic technologies, has announced that its professional-use COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test has been certified with a CE mark. The test will provide health professionals an accurate detection of the nucleoprotein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in respiratory swabs within 10 minutes. Development and validation were supported by the Wellcome Trust and the [...]
Government service design specialist Mace & Menter has won a competitive tender to work with the NHS on a series of projects to adapt and innovate health services in the South West. The company will support Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group’s ongoing drive to design more effective and inclusive services around the needs of [...]
Poole Hospital, part of The University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, has launched a mobile check-in app to enable outpatients to check in for their hospital appointment using their smartphone or tablet. The initiative is part of a range of measures to support infection control practices aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19. Using Mobile Appointment [...]
A new advanced computing technique using routine medical scans to enable doctors to take fewer, more accurate tumour biopsies, has been developed by cancer researchers at the University of Cambridge. The research published in European Radiology shows that combining computed tomography (CT) scans with ultrasound images creates a visual guide for doctors to ensure they sample the [...]
A new point of care device is being developed which could potentially cut the diagnosis time of sepsis to just 30 minutes. Scotland-based medical device development specialist Wideblue is working alongside customer Anasyst and Teesside University to develop a low-cost optical cavity absorption system. This device, which has been used as part of a clinical evaluation [...]
The Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit (MRC HIU) has appointed a new director. The MRC HIU at the University of Oxford aims to further our understanding of how the immune system functions to develop better treatment strategies against infectious diseases, cancer, allergy and autoimmune diseases. The unit’s research spans basic to translational immunology focussed [...]
Northern Ireland-headquartered Eakin Healthcare Group is expanding into a new therapeutic area with a fresh acquisition. The company has snapped up Coleraine-based Armstrong Medical, which specialises in respiratory care products. The deal represents a diversification for the group which to date has specialised in ostomy and wound care products. The acquisition will be supported by [...]
Heating up cancer cells while targeting them with chemotherapy is an effective way of killing them, according to a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. The study, published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B, found that loading a chemotherapy drug on to tiny magnetic particles that can heat up the cancer cells [...]
A digital technology firm is boosting connectivity and collaboration within Scotland care homes through the use of its monitoring platform. Person Centred Software’s Mobile Care Monitoring system allows staff to digitally plan, record and monitor the care of residents in real-time. The mobile digital care system is designed to reduce the time it would take [...]
