The Isle of Wight is set to benefit from Rally Round, a free digital network which enables family members, friends, carers and communities to create and organise support for themselves or someone they care about. Rally Round allows users to create a secure online network of people they know and […]
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3D printed bionic hands trial begin in Bristol
The world’s first clinical trial of 3D printed bionic hands for child amputees, backed by SBRI Healthcare, has recently started in Bristol. It has the potential to rapidly improve waiting times, and reduce the cost of traditional solutions. Currently, the only prosthetic hands available to children on the NHS are […]
Highland Marketing: Using sales acceleration to aid business growth
Getting the right message to the right people is a key activity when it comes to engaging with the NHS market, as Highland Marketing explains in this article on sales acceleration. If you want to engage with the NHS, then getting the right message across in a direct and meaningful […]
June Newsletter
Here we cover and recap on some of the great news we have featured this month. There have been some fantastic stories, we have met some great people and welcomed them to our network. South London Small Grants open for innovators Papworth Hospital goes live with Lorenzo Heart device on […]
New web calculator to more accurately predict bowel cancer survival
GPs and patients could soon more accurately predict the chances of bowel cancer survival, thanks to a new web calculator developed using data from QResearch, a not-for-profit project between EMIS Health and University of Nottingham. The new tool is intended to help people make more informed decisions around treatment and […]
DeepMind Health to work with Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
DeepMind Health has announced it will start working with Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust after signing an agreement to deploy Streams. The hospital will be working with DeepMind Health to implement and develop the Streams clinical app that will further improve patient safety. This will be available at the […]
NHS Digital launches interactive tool
A new interactive dashboard is set to provide new insight into cervical screening coverage to help GPs and health organisations improve cervical screening rates. It is hoped that the interactive dashboard will help identify areas where screening levels could be improved and encourage work to boost coverage. The dashboard will […]
Medicash Completes £4m minority investment in Now Healthcare Group
Now Healthcare Group (NHG) has announced that it has received a minority investment from leading health cash plan provider Medicash of 4 million GBP. Founded in 2015 by Lee Dentith, NHG provides digital healthcare services through its brands Dr Now, Now GP and Now Pharmacy. This new partnership with Medicash […]
Project unveils 25 years of lifestyle changes
A new tool shows how people in England’s smoking, drinking and healthy eating habits have changed over the past 25 years, in a new, easy to understand, format. Statistics on how many of us are overweight, obese or still lighting up cigarettes can now be compared from the early 1990s […]
Patients Know Best awarded national framework
Patients Know Best is a fully secure system which enables patients themselves to organise and share their own personal records with others. For example they can share information not only with clinicians anywhere in the world, but other organisations like social services, or even members of their family. The choice […]
