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A specialist nurse, who was back at work just eight months after having a life-saving heart transplant, is urging people to consider becoming donors.

When Elaine Ratcliffe first walked through the doors of Queen Victoria Hospital in the 1970s to visit a friend who was a patient, little did she know that years later she’d be back and also be starting a family trend.

A new mobile breast screening trailer has now been delivered to University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust as part of their Althea managed service contract.

The independent expert screening committee has recommended that bowel cancer screening in England should in future start 10 years earlier at age 50.

The majority of England’s acute Trusts have no policy to discourage consumer instant messaging tools, while many hospitals provide no alternative, according to cross platform mobile digital specialist, CommonTime.

A 21 year old woman, who suffered severe facial trauma from a gunshot wound has received a total face transplant from a team of surgeons and specialists.

Richard Murray, currently director of policy at The King’s Fund, has been appointed as its new chief executive.

Cambridge IVF is to become the first NHS centre in the UK to routinely freeze embryos after proving the technique very significantly increases the chance of patients becoming pregnant.

The survival rate for children aged 1-16 with leukaemia is now at 90% at Poole Hospital after continued developments in cancer treatment.

Royal Philips has introduced a cardiovascular ultrasound system specifically designed to increase diagnostic confidence and simplify workflow for clinicians.

TheSocialMedwork is making a mission statement by its pledge to make medicines accessible to people around the world, at the same time, wherever they live.

World leading experts from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield have received a £2 million Global Health grant from the National Institute for Health Research to help transform the management and prevention of preterm birth in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has highlighted the importance of technology in NHS improvements, saying: "Let this be clear: tech transformation is coming."

A county-wide bowel screening programme has fully rolled out an extended service that aims to diagnose bowel cancer at an earlier stage, helping save more lives.

The pace of innovation in medical imaging and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an enabler for improving radiological diagnosis and reporting are the most exciting opportunities in the UK radiology market right now according to a survey by Canon Medical Systems UK.

ABHI’s latest member Brexit survey has highlighted the significant contingency planning that is underway within the HealthTech sector.

A year on from its launch, a medical app is helping to reduce the time it takes for clinicians to prescribe drugs to patients.

A mobile ward with eight beds has arrived at Hereford County Hospital to help manage the increase in demands on hospital services.

A communication device for individuals with Locked-In Syndrome, has been launched in the UK, enabling patients to once again communicate with their loved ones and carers in a simple, intuitive, and innovative way.

A new survey published on Thursday 16 August 2018, highlights that variations in the practice of airway management in intensive care units across the UK are putting children, and particularly newborn babies, at risk.