RECENT NEWS

Moorfields Eye Hospital has welcomed the first patients for surgery at its new hub in Stratford. The hub at Stratford Broadway opened its doors earlier this year to provide eye care services to patients across east and north-east London.

One Wirral CIC, a community interest company that proactively helps to bridge gaps in health services and support for local communities, has launched a ground-breaking diabetes prehabilitation service to reduce surgery postponements, tackle waiting lists, and improve postoperative outcomes for patients.

A new report by the Medical Technology Group has called for a full review into the performance of surgical hubs and diagnostic centres to end regional variation in their performance and work through the backlog of 7.5 million patients faster.

The World Health Organization (WHO) 2023 Global tuberculosis (TB) report underscores a significant worldwide recovery in the scale-up of TB diagnosis and treatment services in 2022. It shows an encouraging trend starting to reverse the detrimental effects of COVID- 19 disruptions on TB services.

Women who have mild inflammation in the acute stages of COVID-19 infection may be more likely to experience a particular set of Long COVID symptoms, according to new research.

A new report published in the American Journal of InfectionControl (AJIC) demonstrates that implementing a dedicated team of nurses to assist with central line insertions can reduce patients’ risk of developing bloodstream infections due to those central lines.

More than 2,200 people in high-risk communities have been newly identified as being at risk of life-threatening liver cancer, thanks to NHS roaming liver trucks across the country.

The NHS is rolling out a new early warning system for doctors and nurses treating children to quickly identify deterioration, escalate care, and act on parental concerns.

Nuffield Health, a healthcare charity, and LycaHealth, a diagnostics provider, have agreed a relationship with the aim of delivering faster, high quality diagnostic services to more people using Nuffield Health’s health and wellbeing services across London.

£21 million is being allocated to 64 NHS trusts across England to roll out AI tools to speed up the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.

The government will meet its target to open 160 community diagnostic centres a year early, the Health and Social Care Secretary has announced. All 160 centres will be open by March 2024, a year ahead of the original March 2025 target - speeding up access to potentially lifesaving tests and checks.

Four trusts in the Greater Manchester Pathology Network are working to deploy Clinisys’ laboratory information management system (LIMS) in a way that will enable them to work more collaboratively and improve services for clinicians and patients.

UK-based health technology consultancy Health Tech Enterprise is proud to announce their participation at MEDICA 2023 to showcase their ground-breaking support services helping international MedTech innovators in accessing the EU and UK markets, as they launch a pioneering Net Zero modelling tool for healthcare.

A leading corporate services provider, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), has launched its inaugural ‘Sustainable Healthcare Recycling & Waste Management’ framework agreement designed to help the NHS meet net zero.

Bender UK has appointed a new sales director to help drive future growth of the company. Carl Fletcher is responsible for the management and development of the sales function that covers the main business areas of Healthcare, eMobility, Service Solutions, and Industry.

Despite national efforts to address inequity, the health and care system is not always meeting the needs of people with a learning disability when they are cared for in hospital, says a new report from the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB).

The UK’s Health Ombudsman has warned that sepsis is still taking too many lives due to the same hospital failings we were seeing over ten years ago.

Five leading HealthTech innovators will be among the strong delegation of UK companies joining the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) at Global Health Exhibition in Saudi Arabia.

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based tool for estimating a newly diagnosed cancer patient’s chances for surviving long term, according to a study presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2023.

A new report published by NHS Blood and Transplant shows that an increased proportion of potential organ donors of Black and Asian heritage are showing their support by registering their decision to be a donor on the NHS Organ Donor Register, but the number of actual deceased donors fell last year (2022/23).