Uncategorized
UK health and care excellence body NICE has launched a public consultation on proposed changes its health tech evaluation programmes. From today until 13 October 2021, NICE is seeking feedback on proposed changes to its health technology assessment methods, and processes. The consultation is the culmination of the most wide-ranging and comprehensive review NICE has [...]
Health tech 2021 and beyond Adam Beech reports on the some of the sector's brightest growth areas
The Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority Cabinet have allocated £4million in funding to the development of a Centre for Excellence in bio-manufacturing. The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), an open-access, independent innovation centre which supports the development of UK process industry and manufacturing, has been granted the cash to help it refurbish and extend [...]
News that a COVID-19 vaccine is set to be manufactured on Teesside has been welcomed by the National Horizons Centre which will provide vital training to the vaccine manufacturing workforce. Sixty-million doses of the Novavax vaccine are set to be manufactured in Stockton-on-Tees by FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB) with the National Horizons Centre to play [...]
CPI and the founding partners of the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre have today announced the signing of an agreement with Gericke AG, making it a partner in the collaboration. This partnership will draw on Gericke’s extensive experience in powder processing equipment and systems to support the Centre’s flagship Grand Challenges, which are advancing pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Medicines Manufacturing [...]
The CPI’s MicroSUN project, which focuses on the microfluidics scale-up of nanotherapeutics, has been shortlisted for the Bionow Project of the Year award at the Bionow Annual Awards. The Bionow Annual Awards celebrate the best and brightest of the biomedical and life science sectors across Northern England, recognising the outstanding success and achievements of those [...]
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 [...]
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (Somerset FT) has partnered with Radar Healthcare in a bid to improve patient care. Radar’s quality and compliance software brings together operational and regulatory processes into one platform and helps Somerset FT to identify live incidents, mitigate risks and use real-time information to enhance the safety of its patients. The system [...]
Joint Academy, a clinical evidence-based digital treatment for chronic joint pain, which connects patients with licensed physical therapists, has raised a US$23 million Series B funding round led by international investment company Kinnevik. Existing investors Karl-Johan Persson (chairman of H&M) and Alfvén & Didrikson also participated in the round, which will enable Joint Academy to accelerate [...]
Giving biotech the space to thrive Health Tech World reports. Enter keywords
