The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) is offering UK companies the opportunity to take part in a number of US-based activities designed to help them access the US market. Having already established a strong network of relationships across Texas, the UK’s largest health technology trade association is continuing to develop networks and connections withRead more
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NHS England is offering community grants of up to £2,500 to voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations that have developed good practice around patient and citizen involvement in healthcare. The purpose of the grant is to enable organisations to share their good practice so that others can learn from the involvement successes. The communityRead more
ESCAPE-pain – an award-winning model of care for the management of chronic joint pain – is now available online to help ease the suffering of thousands of people across the country. Chronic joint pain, or osteoarthritis, affects over 8.75 million people in the UK, including half the population over the age of 75, and oneRead more
The team at Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH) has launched HealthSpan: measuring how long people remain in good health. HealthSpan is a core measure for prevention that has the power to support a sustainable health system in the future. The population-level measure identifies how long a population remains in good health, without a significant long-term conditionRead more
John Craig, Chief Executive of Care City Test Bed, highlights the successes of ‘combinatorial innovation’ and why collaboration is king when it comes to embedding new technologies and services into whole systems and pathways. You cannot admit to many people that you are obsessed with public sector innovation before one tells you, ‘it’s a contradictionRead more
Debbie Wake, NIA Fellow, CEO and Co-Founder of MyWay Digital Health, offers food for thought for innovators and academics looking to form a ‘spin-out’ company, describing the advantages and challenges she’s experienced on her innovation journey. The UK is said to be excellent at developing IP-intensive technologies but not as good at commercialising them. TheRead more
Robert Berry, Head of Innovation at Kent, Surrey, Sussex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) reflects on the crucial difference between ‘cost effective’ and ‘affordable.’ Andrew Dillon, CEO of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), recently highlighted the difference between ‘cost effective’ and ‘affordable’: “Something being cost-effective is not the same as beingRead more
UCLPartners is inviting trusts from across its partnership to apply to be part of an exciting pilot of innovative respiratory rate monitor, RespiraSense. One of 37 evidence-based innovations currently being supported to spread by the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), RespiraSense is the world’s only continuous and motion-tolerant respiratory rate monitor. It improves quality of careRead more
The first three in a series of nine new films about digital health innovations in the NHS have been launched, as part of #NHS70DigitalWeek. Produced by the AHSN Network and NHS England, the films show some of the latest ways the NHS is using digital technology to empower people to take control of their healthRead more
Warren* is a medical student who suffers from anorexia nervosa. Changing universities during the course of his studies caused complications with receiving timely treatment due to long waiting periods. Then Warren* was signed up for FREED (First episode & Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders) . “I first had problems in my fourth year at university.Read more
