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) …

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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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