Public health
Doctors in Gloucestershire will offer free football tickets to patients with depression under a new social prescribing scheme. The initiative, launching this season, has been developed by Labour MP Dr Simon Opher and Ecotricity owner Dale Vince. It will offer patients at surgeries across Gloucestershire tickets to National League side Forest Green Rovers at The [...]
By Dr Harry Thirkettle, Head of Health Innovation, Aire Logic As a former NHS surgeon and now a clinical entrepreneur at Aire Logic, an employee-owned, B-Corp certified tech consultancy, I’ve seen the NHS’s challenges and potential up close. The NHS 10 Year Health Plan offers a bold vision to transform England’s healthcare system. Its three [...]
Two US hospitals have developed simpler ways to preserve hearts after circulatory death, potentially increasing access to life-saving transplants. The approaches aim to overcome challenges with using hearts from donation after circulatory death (DCD) — where a patient’s heart stops after life support is withdrawn — as opposed to brain death, where the heart continues [...]
Cloud21 responds to the UK government’s 10 Year Health Plan The new 10 Year Plan for the NHS in England outlines a clear vision for a digitally-enabled health service. Acknowledging a service left behind in terms of a modern user experience compared to other sectors and other countries, is absolutely right. However, our healthcare teams [...]
The UK government has launched a £2bn life sciences strategy aimed at driving growth, speeding up innovation, and transforming NHS healthcare. Life sciences is one of eight priority sectors in the UK’s Industrial Strategy. The ten-year plan aims to boost an industry worth around £100bn and employing around 300,000 people. The strategy focuses on three [...]
Hundreds of people with rare forms of cystic fibrosis will gain access to a new once-daily therapy through the NHS for the first time. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic condition that causes thick mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive system, leading to infections, breathing problems and digestive issues. The new treatment, a [...]
The UK has recorded the lowest MMR vaccination rate among G7 nations, as nearly 30m children globally are not fully protected against preventable diseases. New figures show that just 89 per cent of UK children received their first MMR jab in 2024, compared with 96 per cent in Germany, 95 per cent in France, Italy [...]
Devon County Council has partnered with System C to deliver a major upgrade to its social care services, promising improved access and support for the county's 800,000 residents. Through the adoption of System C’s advanced Liquidlogic Adults Case Management and Liquidlogic Children's Case Management solutions, this strategic collaboration aims to create a more efficient and [...]
Patients and healthcare staff in west Wales are set to benefit from a digital system that will streamline prescribing in secondary services. Hywel Dda University Health Board (UHB) has selected Better as its preferred technology partner to deliver electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA), which will see the roll out of digital systems to replace [...]
Scientists have completed full-body scans of 100,000 people in what is believed to be the world’s largest body imaging study. The decade-long initiative has produced one billion anonymised images showing internal organs, blood vessels, bones and joints, which researchers can now use to explore how ageing and disease develop. Each participant contributed around 12,000 images, [...]
