Welsh Government Opens £250,000 Equipment Fund to NHS Health Boards and Care Bodies
A Welsh Government capital fund worth up to £250,000 per project has opened its doors to NHS health boards and third sector care organisations, alongside universities and private business. With applications closing on 25 September, providers and commissioners across Wales have a narrow window to secure funding for equipment that current budgets rarely stretch to cover. Continue reading Welsh Government Opens £250,000 Equipment Fund to NHS Health Boards and Care Bodies
Government Fast-Tracks Motor Neurone Disease Support as National Care Service Takes Shape
Yvette Cooper has used a visit to the Rob Burrow Centre in Leeds to announce a fast-track care pathway for people with motor neurone disease, the first concrete step in the government’s promised National Care Service. Behind the announcement sits a harder question that will land squarely on commissioners and providers: how do you fast-track a pathway across health, social care and housing when the systems underneath it still barely talk to each other.
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King’s College Hospital Trust Rolls Out Robotic Hip and Knee Replacement at Orpington
The Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Orpington Hospital has installed the Stryker Mako robotic-arm system, becoming the first NHS site in South East London to offer robot-assisted joint replacement. For a trust managing around 100 procedures a year through the new … Continue reading King’s College Hospital Trust Rolls Out Robotic Hip and Knee Replacement at Orpington
AI Scribes Get Regulatory Clarity As MHRA Defines Medical Device
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has told developers, suppliers and NHS organisations exactly where the regulatory line sits for ambient voice technology. Continue reading AI Scribes Get Regulatory Clarity As MHRA Defines Medical Device
Inside the VR Headsets Being Trialled in a Sussex Dementia Care Setting
Port Manor Care Home in Seaford has begun using 360-degree virtual reality headsets within its new Memory Lane Community, part of a growing move to bring reminiscence-based technology into specialist dementia care. Continue reading Inside the VR Headsets Being Trialled in a Sussex Dementia Care Setting
£1.65m Quantum Health Fund Targets Home Monitoring And Early Diagnosis
Seventeen early-stage quantum health projects have received £1.65 million from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, spanning home eye monitoring, ICU risk prediction and neurophysiological markers of Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading £1.65m Quantum Health Fund Targets Home Monitoring And Early Diagnosis
Burnham’s Social Care Warning Puts Digital Reform Back on the Table
Andy Burnham has told Britain that the NHS could collapse without a fundamental fix to social care, reviving a debate that has outlasted six prime ministers before him. For care providers and technology suppliers who have spent years planning around promises that never became policy, the question is whether this one will be any different. Continue reading Burnham’s Social Care Warning Puts Digital Reform Back on the Table
Bereaved Families Take On Oxevision as NHS Adoption Figures Are Disputed
Leicestershire Partnership Trust has told the Lampard Inquiry why it abandoned a bedroom monitoring system that a neighbouring trust is expanding across every inpatient unit. Continue reading Bereaved Families Take On Oxevision as NHS Adoption Figures Are Disputed
Why a New Hormone-Tracking Patch Matters for NHS Digital Plans
A US biotech has recorded the first continuous read of cortisol taken directly from human skin, using the same aptamer technology that underpins next-generation glucose sensors. Continue reading Why a New Hormone-Tracking Patch Matters for NHS Digital Plans
New Health Secretary Yvette Cooper Inherits NHS Digital Transformation’s Biggest Unresolved Row
Yvette Cooper has been appointed health and social care secretary by Andy Burnham, taking charge of a department where the NHS Federated Data Platform contract and Palantir’s role within it are approaching a decision point. Her record across four previous Cabinet posts gives the sector plenty to judge her by.
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