Diagnostics
Bridgwater Community Diagnostic Centre has reached practical completion after a £17.8m project for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The facility was delivered by Ergéa UK through a long-term Managed Service partnership with the trust. The programme began with a ground-breaking ceremony and the start of site work in October 2025. Ergéa UK said the project was [...]
WID-easy, the only non-invasive triage test for endometrial cancer in routine use in a European public health system, has been cited in Germany’s highest-tier clinical guidance; a marker that non-invasive detection is reaching clinical maturity. The vaginal-swab test designed to spare women unnecessary invasive procedures has been referenced in the updated German S3 Guideline on [...]
Article produced in association with Jeen Health Britain has committed serious money and political will to genomics at birth and during pregnancy. The one window it keeps overlooking is the cheapest and most actionable of all - the months before conception. A screening timeline with a gap at the start The UK has rarely been [...]
Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic Karyotype testing has become a familiar part of fertility and pregnancy investigations. The test is older, and more specific in what it can answer, than many people realise. Karyotyping is one of the oldest genetic tests still in routine clinical use. The technology dates back to the [...]
NHS scanning trucks have detected more than 10,000 lung cancers in England, with more than three quarters caught at stages one or two, new research has revealed. People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stages are nearly 13 times more likely to survive for five years than those whose cancer is caught late. Local [...]
Predictive Health Intelligence today announced a promising new way to identify people with serious liver disease earlier, using existing NHS blood test data. The findings come from the LiveWell study, with results being presented at a major European liver congress this week. The study looked at a new approach called the Cumulative Liver Damage Index, [...]
The UK government has announced £237m for 36 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England. CDCs are local sites, often on high streets, in shopping centres or retail parks, where patients can get tests such as MRI and CT scans without going to hospital. The investment will pay for four new centres in Gorton [...]
Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic Within the first few days of life, every baby born in England is offered a blood spot test, commonly known as the heel prick test. The NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme screens for nine rare but serious conditions and has been responsible for [...]
Article produced in association with Jeen Health and Spital Clinic Genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk in women has, for much of its clinical history, been available only through a referral pathway involving a GP, a clinical genetics team and a family history review meeting specific risk thresholds. The arrival of direct-access private testing has [...]
By Dr Karan Wadhwa, consultant urological surgeon at Phoenix Hospital Group and clinical director at CHAPS In the UK, around one in five men dies before the age of 65, many from conditions that are preventable or far more treatable when detected early. Prostate cancer is central to that challenge. It is the most common [...]
