New NHS collaboration to use innovative digital tech to transform patient care
Aiming to improve patient health and care as well as allow clinicians to create their own digital health applications, NHS organisations across the North East…
Remote ultrasound tech to help ease pressure off emergency departments and improve patients’ experiences
A collaboration between University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), BT and WM5G has demonstrated how a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network…
New NHS figures reveal an increase in adult carers feeling stressed or depressed
Revealed by NHS Digital, just over 60 percent of carers reported feeling stressed in 2018-19 (compared to percent in 2016-17), while the number of carers…
NHS Long Term Plan will be hindered without additional Government funding, health charity warns
Analysis from independent health charity Health Foundation and a separate survey of front-line health leaders from the NHS Confederation have said that the NHS Long…
Personal Health Budget roll out sees over 50,000 people take control of their own care
The NHS has announced that more than 50,000 people have taken charge of their own care after being handed control of how their NHS funding…
£2 million cash injection to improve Changing Places facilities provision across the NHS
A KingKraft Changing Places facility In a new Government announcement, from 1st of June 2019, NHS Trusts in England can apply for funding to install…
Multi-million-pound investment to help pioneer new patient treatments
The UK Government has unveiled plans to give scientists access to anonymised health data to pioneer new, faster treatments for patients and new cures for…
NHS funds important handheld device to get rid of excruciating headaches
As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England is funding a handheld device that can zap away painful headaches in its effort to…
New report explores the need for innovation and automation in the NHS
A new report by the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), and launched by the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care,…
Dedicated recovery area for dementia patients opens at hospital in Scotland
The Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy has launched a new, dedicated recovery area for dementia patients, filled with scenic paintings and calming sounds. The recovery area…