Vanguard Healthcare Solutions, the UK’s leading provider of flexible clinical infrastructure, is hosting an information event for healthcare professionals which will offer a tour of one of its new mobile operating theatres. Vanguard creates and rapidly delivers mobile and modular healthcare spaces which help hospitals and health systems to provide increased capacity and essential surgical …

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The FAST 2 (Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy guided Surfactant Therapy) trial begins in 4 Danish University Hospitals to validate performance of innovative point-of-care (POC) device SIME Diagnostics, a pioneer in point-of-care respiratory diagnostics in the ICU, has launched an investigational pilot (FAST 2 study) of the company’s Clinical AI Platform in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) …

SIME Begins Clinical Trial Validating Point-of-care Device that Rapidly Predicts Neonatal Respiratory Disease at Birth in the NICU Read More »

In claims against medical professionals the system remains under pressure and our general prediction is that everything will take longer and claims will cost more to resolve. The Fixed Recoverable Costs bubble? The government is still considering the introduction of FRC for clinical negligence claims worth up to £25,000. Initially it appeared that this would …

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Have lessons been learned in the decade since the Francis Report explored major failures of care at Stafford Hospital that led to unnecessary patient deaths. It is 10 years since the publication of the report by Sir Robert Francis KC of the Public Inquiry into Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The inquiry explored major failures of care at …

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The medical technology strategy will ensure patients can access safe, effective and innovative equipment and medical devices. Patients across the UK are set to benefit from access to safe, effective and innovative equipment and medical devices as part of the first ever medical technology (medtech) strategy published this week. The blueprint for boosting NHS medtech will focus …

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A ground-breaking ‘Surgical Simulation Theatre’ that allows visitors to watch some of the UK’s best surgeons perform both ‘live’ and simulated surgery will once again be returning to Future Surgery 2022. Organised by the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), the one-of-its-kind simulated operating theatre will give world-class surgeons a platform to demonstrate the latest …

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The bestselling author of new book Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine has revealed all. Humans will lose the ability to love within a century because of the alleged cognitive damage caused by hormone-blocking drugs during childbirth, a new book claims. Epidural analgesics and general anaesthetics, used routinely in labour since …

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Commenting on the latest Winter Flow Project data, Dr Adrian Boyle, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “For the second week in a row the Royal College’s Winter Flow Project has recorded 1 in 11 patients delayed by 12 hours or more in an Emergency Department from time of arrival. The …

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A report into public attitudes towards the NHS, published by the Health Foundation, shows that the public wants to see an increase in NHS staff numbers to address spiralling waiting lists. The findings align with assessments by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, that reveal a shortage of 1,400 anaesthetists across the UK is already preventing …

RCoA Supports Public Calls to Increase NHS Staffing Levels, Citing Current 1,400 Shortfall in Anaesthetists Read More »

The latest Emergency Department performance figures for December 2021 published by the Welsh government show: There were 57,761 attendances to major Emergency Departments (a decrease of 6% on the previous month, November 2021) Four-hour performance at major Emergency Departments was 58.2%, a 0.6 percentage point drop compared to the previous month, November 2021 December 2021 …

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