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Digital Health has renewed its PR partnership with Chishick Communications for Rewired 2027, set to take place at the NEC in Birmingham. The renewal follows the agency's work on Rewired this year, including record media attendance, extensive press coverage and the launch of initiatives such as the on-site Podcast Café. Rewired 2027 will [...]
By Tamara Everington, chief medical officer at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust When NHS organisations reflect on successful EPR implementations, the story often focuses on systems, suppliers and timelines. At Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH), the decisive factor was people. A strong network of clinical champions and super users helped translate a [...]
Prime Health has announced a £2m investment in its Queen Anne Street centre, adding a new 3T MRI system and expanding preventative health services. The London centre, at 45 Queen Anne Street in the Harley Street Health District, is due to be officially unveiled on 24 September 2026 following an extensive refurbishment programme. The investment [...]
Health innovation minister James Frith said he was worried about “mistrust” of US defence and health tech company Palantir and “the impact it could have on people’s willingness to share data with the NHS”. The government is deciding whether to end Palantir's £330m contract to operate the NHS federated data platform, which is intended to [...]
Private prescription platform Healistic has expanded its two-hour medication delivery service beyond London to Manchester and Birmingham. The London-based company allows private clinicians to issue electronic prescriptions and arrange for medicines to be dispensed and delivered without the patient visiting a pharmacy. Healistic says it has grown 40-fold in recent years and now serves more [...]
By Sanius Health One of the most overused words in oncology is "manageable". An adverse event can be clinically manageable and still change the structure of someone's life. It can be recorded as Grade 1 or Grade 2, recur across treatment cycles, erode sleep, reduce mobility, weaken appetite, impair cognition and quietly determine whether a [...]
AseptiFlow has secured a commercial partner as the NHS-developed device moves towards wider deployment in healthcare settings worldwide. The device, invented and developed by Dr James Soothill, consultant microbiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH), has been licensed to Mueller Europe Ltd for commercial manufacture and adoption across hospitals, care [...]
GP practices across Wales are being invited to a new webinar exploring the practical role AI could play in supporting primary care teams as they manage rising workloads and continued digital transformation. Improving Clinical Coding in Wales with BetterLetter will take place on Wednesday 23 September, from 12pm to 12.45pm BST. The free session will [...]
AI scribes used by doctors may miss body language and other non-verbal cues that can contain clinically important information, a review has warned. The technology converts spoken consultations into text and generates summaries, but researchers said it cannot capture gestures, facial expressions, movement or emotional cues. Academics at the University of Edinburgh raised [...]
By Sanius Health As we enjoy the last days of Summer and head into September, one of the clearest shifts we are seeing across life sciences is a surge in demand for patient preference science. Some of that momentum reflects the work of Kielo Health, Sanius Health’s preference science division, led by Dr Tommi Tervonen, [...]
