RECENT NEWS

Through the Trust’s vendor-independent managed service, Althea and Samsung Healthcare have worked with Leicester General Hospital (LGH) to replace their plain x-ray rooms. Supported by Althea’s Implementation & Technology experts, LGH selected Samsung’s GC85 from all available systems.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust, which provides hospital, community, mental health and ambulance services to over 140,000 island residents, has deployed a smartphone based Intelligent Paging app.

Maetrics, a leading international life sciences regulatory and compliance consultancy, have launched a new report providing clarity to medical device manufacturers on the requirements for properly documented, up-to-date Clinical Evaluation Reports (CER).

Two mobile operating theatres have been called in by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust to maintain patient access to services during the refurbishment of two of its permanent operating theatres.

Researchers at the University of Oxford, Cleveland Clinic, and the University of Erlangen have identified a novel imaging biomarker – and found it can be used to predict all-cause and cardiac mortality by measuring inflammation of fatty tissue surrounding the coronary arteries.

A Sheffield scientist investigating the impact hearing aids have on the musical experiences of those who are deaf or have a hearing impairment has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award.

SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) Healthcare has announced that it has secured savings in excess of £30 million for the NHS. These findings are part of a report by independent consultants PA Consulting, published on 5 September 2018.

A specialist nurse, who was back at work just eight months after having a life-saving heart transplant, is urging people to consider becoming donors.

When Elaine Ratcliffe first walked through the doors of Queen Victoria Hospital in the 1970s to visit a friend who was a patient, little did she know that years later she’d be back and also be starting a family trend.

A new mobile breast screening trailer has now been delivered to University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust as part of their Althea managed service contract.

The independent expert screening committee has recommended that bowel cancer screening in England should in future start 10 years earlier at age 50.

The majority of England’s acute Trusts have no policy to discourage consumer instant messaging tools, while many hospitals provide no alternative, according to cross platform mobile digital specialist, CommonTime.

A 21 year old woman, who suffered severe facial trauma from a gunshot wound has received a total face transplant from a team of surgeons and specialists.

Richard Murray, currently director of policy at The King’s Fund, has been appointed as its new chief executive.

Cambridge IVF is to become the first NHS centre in the UK to routinely freeze embryos after proving the technique very significantly increases the chance of patients becoming pregnant.

The survival rate for children aged 1-16 with leukaemia is now at 90% at Poole Hospital after continued developments in cancer treatment.

Royal Philips has introduced a cardiovascular ultrasound system specifically designed to increase diagnostic confidence and simplify workflow for clinicians.

TheSocialMedwork is making a mission statement by its pledge to make medicines accessible to people around the world, at the same time, wherever they live.

World leading experts from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield have received a £2 million Global Health grant from the National Institute for Health Research to help transform the management and prevention of preterm birth in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has highlighted the importance of technology in NHS improvements, saying: "Let this be clear: tech transformation is coming."