Brush DJ, developed by NHS Innovation Accelerator Alumni and dentist Ben Underwood, has won funding support from Health Innovation Manchester’s Momentum Fund to improve children’s oral health. In Greater Manchester, £6 million is spent extracting multiple decayed teeth in children every year. Seven of the area’s 10 localities are included in those with the poorest children’sRead more
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Date: Tue 20 Jun 2017 Time: 09.30 – 13.30 Location: Liverpool Join the 12th Digital Ecosystem event where the focus will be on digital innovations for mental health and dementia. It is part of a series of events to promote digital innovation in health and care run with the ECH Alliance. You will hear fromRead more
27th June 2017 Time: 9:45 – 16:00 Venue: The Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5DH The NECS Research and Evidence Team are organising this exciting event, in collaboration with: the five Vanguards, regional and local valuation Partners, and NHS England, showcasing the outputs of the evaluations of the many Vanguards in the NorthRead more
21st June 2017 Time: 10:00 – 16:00 Venue: Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham View Map This event is organised by the Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University and NHS RightCare. Supported by NHS England and NECS What will be covered during this event? We will present the evidence for the value of SDM, where itRead more
‘Good Ideas and what to do with them’ is a two hour course delivered by the Yorkshire & Humber Innovation Champions Network, specifically for NHS staff. It has loads of real case studies from our region and team-based exercises to gain practical knowledge of innovation, invention and adaptation within the NHS. Having attended this course youRead more
MedCity and some of their UK colleagues are travelling to BIO US in San Diego in June, to join the 1,800 exhibitors and 16,000+ biotech and pharma leaders who attend from across the world. It’s one of the biggest events on the life sciences calendar and this year the sessions will be covering everything from digitalRead more
Co-located with Health+Care, on the 28-29 June 2017 at ExCel London Multi-award winning organiser CloserStill Media launches the Digital Healthcare Show – a new event dedicated to digital transformation of the NHS, healthcare re-imagination and promotion of interoperability of digital solutions in integrated healthcare. The show will take place on the 28-29 June 2017 atRead more
Join DigitalHealth.London during London Tech Week to access expert insight into healthcare demands and guidance on how to access funding to support demand-led innovation. MedCity, DigitalHealth.London, Tech London Advocates HealthTech group and Asthma UK will host speakers and opinion leaders from across industry, the investment community and medical research charities for a series of presentationsRead more
In the fast-paced environment of health and care, it is very easy to feel disconnected from one another as we grapple with the challenges of increasing specialisation, constant reporting and inspections, and the seemingly relentless need to be seen to deliver. Eating lunch or an afternoon tea together, and chatting over some common ground isRead more
This half-day workshop will bring together a diverse audience for lively debate and discussion about current practice in the UK’s health care innovation landscape. The workshop is a response to one of UCL’s current policy ‘grand challenges’ – understanding how innovation can be successfully embedded in the NHS, and what learning can be applied fromRead more
