Patients in NI dying in hospital while waiting to be discharged due to lack of community care packages, national charity unveils
More than 200 patients died in Northern Ireland’s hospitals in 2017-18 while waiting to be discharged, Marie Curie has revealed. The terminal illness charity has…
Contract wins for hospital bed supplier
Leading healthcare equipment supplier Innova Care Concepts has secured 3 separate hospital bed contracts for facilities across the United Kingdom in the space of just…
How touch screen technology can reduce hospital bed waiting times
Anybody who has spent time in a GP’s waiting room understands how frustrating healthcare waiting times can be. These inconvenient waits are bad enough when…
Councils respond to £2 billion social care funding spending rules
Cllr Linda Thomas, Vice Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, has responded to the Government framework published on the 31st March 2017,…
New technology to stop falls from beds
“All the ideas that the SBRI Healthcare are supporting will hopefully help patients in the future with a range of issues including falls, incontinence and…