FEATURE ARTICLES

Patients with chest pains and suspected heart attacks are benefitting from better informed decisions in a high-impact initiative led by clinicians, writes Dr. Krishnaraj Sinhji Rathod, a Consultant in Interventional Cardiology at Barts Health NHS Trust. He explains the clinical, environmental, and efficiency significance of digitising electrocardiograms, and the opportunity to scale success more widely in the NHS.

For UK HealthTech companies with global ambitions, few events offer the scale, visibility, and commercial opportunity of WHX Dubai. Formerly known as Arab Health, WHX Dubai has long been recognised as a cornerstone of the international healthcare exhibition calendar, bringing together the people, partnerships and innovations shaping the future of care. ABHI’s head of international events, Michelle Michelucci, provides an overview of this year’s event.

Ameen Mahmood and Professor Jag Dhanda look at how VR technology is transforming training and global access to surgery.

Kate Woodhead RGN DMS shares her reflections on 25 years of delivering perioperative education through the charity, Friends of African Nursing. She provides an insight into the lessons learnt, the impact achieved and challenges encountered along the way.

By prioritising ease of use, digital integration, and responsive care, Salford Royal’s Respiratory Support Unit team has enabled clinicians to deliver faster, safer, and more effective ventilation across the hospital. This article looks at how respiratory care has been transformed through strategic innovation and collaboration.

Empowering patients through a self-care model in lower limb management has helped achieve improved sustainability at the Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. In this article, Andrew Kerr, Lisa Wood and Lesley McDonagh provide an overview of this successful project.

Paul Chivers of PCC Sustainable Solutions – an independent SME and Programme / Project manager for innovation and sustainability across PPE, medical devices, and facilities, discusses recent work to examine, and then verify, the effectiveness of novel ways to reprocess reuseable anaesthetic masks, other PPE, and medical devices, using technologies such as UVC, in the process considerably reducing energy and water consumption across the NHS.

Sustainability was high on the agenda at EBME Expo. Dr. Helen Meese PhD CEng MIMechE MIPEM MWES FRSA told the delegates that biomedical engineers and technologists are “in a very powerful position to reimagine what the healthcare system is going to look like, particularly around environmental responsibility and technology advancement.”

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust has pioneered nasal photodisinfection to tackle surgical site infections. In this article, Jason Hickok looks at how the technology is being used to eliminate pathogens without contributing to antimicrobial resistance.

In this article, Richard McAuley explores how digital innovations in operating theatres are reshaping the future of healthcare, by striving to achieve energy efficiencies, improved patient outcomes, and enhanced sustainability.

Age UK has called on ministers to set a date to end corridor care, associated with long A&E waits, and produce a plan to achieve it. A recent survey, by the charity, reveals the impact of the problem.

CSJ provides an insight into the highlights at the Future of Surgery Show in Birmingham, taking place on 20 January 2026. Technological innovation, elective recovery, patient safety and sustainability will be high on the agenda, at this one-day event.

As sustainability becomes central to the healthcare agenda, systems around the world are under pressure to deliver more care with fewer resources and clinicians. Clinical Services Journal spoke with Eric De Kesel, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President, Sustainability, and Dr. Emma Wright, Chief Medical Officer, at Mölnlycke Health Care, about how the company is working to support healthcare systems turn sustainable healthcare from aspiration into daily practice, connecting performance, people and planet.

New research from CPI reveals systemic barriers facing UK MedTech startups and spinouts and calls for co-ordinated reform across regulation, investment and NHS adoption, to unlock innovation and deliver national health and economic strategies.

Billions have been spent to tackle NHS waiting lists, but recovery targets continue to be missed, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found. In a new report, MPs likened Government plans for NHS reform to “poor practices seen on HS2”.

Vernacare is enhancing safety, efficiency and dignity across the healthcare system, with a variety of sustainable solutions at every touch point.

Sophie Spencer and Beth Greenhough discuss how transitioning to reusable surgical instruments, through a managed equipment service, can dramatically reduce theatres’ environmental impact. They consider how hospitals can embrace ‘Design for Life’ principles and circular economy thinking.

Shareeta Senthithasan considers: can Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) protect both workers and the environment? She shares some expert insights and discusses some of the key considerations.

The role of perioperative practitioners in driving sustainability in operating theatres is key to reducing the impact of healthcare on the environment. The AfPP Oxford Regional Conference recently explored both the scale of the problem, and the practical solutions perioperative practitioners can adopt.

Elliot Dixon highlights the NHS’s ‘untapped goldmine’ for achieving Net Zero and improving quality of care.