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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 19h
A report from the Health Services Safety Investigations Body has found that NHS staff have been positive about the impact that the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework can have on patient safety.

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PSIRF needs more resources to work says HSSIB report
A report from the Health Services Safety Investigations Body finds that although staff are positive about PSIRF, there needs to be a focus on implementation.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 1d
Sweden’s provider of medical products and solutions Asker Healthcare Group continues its acquisition spree in the UK. It has added endoscopic surgery specialists novus med to the group.

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Asker Healthcare continues acquisition spree
After its recent acquisition of Health Net Connections, the Swedish group adds endoscopic surgery specialists Novus Med to its roster.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 1d
Helsinki-based business automation and software developer Digital Workforce Services has acquired Lincolnshire’s e18 Innovation for £5 million.

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Digital Workforce acquires e18 Innovation
The acquisition makes the Helsinki-based business automation and software developer a leading provider of pathway automation to the NHS.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 1d
An AI platform developed by Sanius Health has been developed to anticipate painful vaso-occlusive crises – a significant breakthrough for rare haematology care and managing sickle cell disease.

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AI platform anticipates vaso-occlusive crises
An AI platform uses predictive analytics to forecast crises with up to 92% sensitivity, which gives patients more time to treat themselves or contact their healthcare provider.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 1d
Glasgow-based NeuroClin Ltd has partnered with diagnostic testing firm Advance Tests to bring to market Scotland’s first commercially available, blood biomarker test for the detection of early Alzheimer’s.

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NeuroClin launches first commercial early detection test for Alzheimer’s
The Glasgow-based firm has partnered with Advance Tests to market the first commercially available, blood biomarker test for the detection of early Alzheimer’s in Scotland.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 1d
X-on Health, a supplier of digital software for equal access to primary care, has partnered with Drinkaware to integrate the alcohol charity’s resources into X-on Health’s AI Surgery Assist chatbot.

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X-on Health partners with Drinkaware
The alcohol charity’s resources will be integrated into the AI Surgery Assist chatbot to help reduce demand on GP surgeries.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 1d
In an interview with Healthcare Today's Adrian Murdoch, Andrew Greaves of Kidney Cancer UK talks about what we should learn from the latest report from the National Kidney Cancer Audit.

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Andrew Greaves: The need for early kidney cancer identification
The general manager at Kidney Cancer UK talks about what we should learn from the latest report from the National Kidney Cancer Audit.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 3d
Cancer biotech company Trogenix has raised £70 million in Series A funding to help develop its pipeline of potentially curative cancer therapies across multiple aggressive solid tumours into the clinic.

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Trogenix raises £70 million in Series A funding
The Edinburgh-based cancer biotech company’s technology kills cancerous cells and stimulates the immune system while leaving surrounding healthy tissue untouched.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 3d
The Welsh government says that a new dental contract for Wales will improve access to NHS dentistry for everyone as health needs and prevention are put at the heart of the new system.

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New contract for Welsh dentistry
Although the Welsh government believes that the new contract will improve access, the British Dental Association says that many areas of ambiguity remain.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 3d
Developed by Oxford Properties Group and Pioneer Group, converted by CW Architects and delivered by contractor Wates Group, Victoria House in Bloomsbury Square, London, has launched as a life sciences hub.

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Victoria House launches as London’s new centre for life sciences
The Bloomsbury building, which was developed by Oxford Properties and Pioneer Group, is already home to nine digital health and AI-driven research start-ups.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 3d
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George Maughan, THEMIS Clinical Defence’s head of client relations, explains why the complexities of indemnity cover mean that clinicians should not rely solely on AI outputs.

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AI and medical malpractice indemnity policies: Why clinicians must proceed with caution
George Maughan, THEMIS Clinical Defence’s head of client relations, explains why the complexities of indemnity cover mean that clinicians should not rely solely on AI outputs.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 3d
Anastasia Bystritskaya, senior global life science market analyst at @thermofishersci.bsky.social, explains why healthspan, not lifespan, should be the true measure of progress.

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Healthspan: The standard that matters
Anastasia Bystritskaya, senior global life science market analyst at Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains why healthspan, not lifespan, should be the true measure of progress.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 6d
A new AI research screening platform is being built by NHS England to enable trusts across the country to join trials of AI in screening to help speed up diagnosis.

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Government pushes into AI
A new AI research screening platform is being built by NHS England to enable trusts across the country to join trials of AI in screening to help speed up diagnosis.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 6d
Scientists at Nottingham Trent University, Newcastle University and Axomics Medical are developing a smart textile band which aims to detect and monitor the age-related condition sarcopenia.

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Smart textile band to monitor muscle health
Sarcopenia remains difficult to diagnose, although muscle weakness and associated falls are estimated to cost the UK alone £2.5 billion a year.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 6d
The NHS has revamped its approach to buying the latest medical technology. Rather than buying tech-based primarily on cost rather than effectiveness, the new approach could save what it considers “billions of pounds”.

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NHS changes approach to medtech
Rather than buying tech based primarily on cost, the NHS will now look at effectiveness as it shifts to value-based procurement.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 7d
The Royal College of Radiologists and the Society of Radiographers warn that current structures stifle innovation and cause unequal access to cancer treatments

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Calls to cut red tape for cancer treatment
The Royal College of Radiologists and the Society of Radiographers warn that current structures stifle innovation and cause unequal access to cancer treatments
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 7d
The Association for Perioperative Practice has accredited all 49 hospitals with operating theatres within Circle Health Group and more than 155 operating theatres under its Theatre Accreditation and Audit programme.

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All Circle Health hospitals accredited
The Association for Perioperative Practice has accredited all 49 hospitals with operating theatres within Circle Health Group.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 7d
Rakeeb Chowdhury, the chief executive and founder of Hummingbirds Medical, explains why current recall systems are widely seen as fragmented, admin-led, and clinically unsafe.

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Rakeeb Chowdhury: Treating a lack of alignment
The chief executive and founder of Hummingbirds Medical explains why current recall systems are widely seen as fragmented, admin-led, and clinically unsafe.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 7d
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Informed consent has long been a cornerstone of ethical medical practice, but its quieter twin, informed refusal, remains less clearly understood and inconsistently applied.

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When patients say no: Understanding the ethics and risks of informed refusal
Informed consent has long been a cornerstone of ethical medical practice, but its quieter twin, informed refusal, remains less clearly understood and inconsistently applied, says TMLEP’s lead healthca...
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 8d
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have taken action again against the advertising of prescription-only medicines used for weight management.

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MHRA enforce new rules for weight-loss medicines
The MHRA have taken action again against the advertising of prescription-only medicines used for weight management.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 8d
Across the UK health sector, workforce wellbeing has become a central concern in discussions about quality of care, says Designated Medical’s Lisa King.

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Burnout and patient safety: Managing workforce wellbeing to improve outcomes
Across the UK health sector, workforce wellbeing has become a central concern in discussions about quality of care, says Designated Medical’s Lisa King.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 8d
As the caseload rises by 8%, in its annual review, the Social Care Ombudsman is calling for greater accountability in the adult social care sector.

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Ombudsman calls for reform of adult care complaints
As the caseload rises by 8%, in its annual review, the Social Care Ombudsman is calling for greater accountability in the adult social care sector.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 9d
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has highlighted a significant jump with long A&E waits before admission in Scotland last year.

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Excess deaths associated to long A&E waits in Scotland
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has highlighted a significant jump with long A&E waits before admission in Scotland last year.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 9d
Richard Marshall, private client legal director at Hill Dickinson, analyses the changes made to pensions in last year’s October Budget and what it means for GPs, their families and their practice.

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Inheritance tax: A safe pension to tax trap?
Richard Marshall, private client legal director at Hill Dickinson, analyses the changes made to pensions in last year’s October Budget and what it means for GPs, their families and their practice.
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Healthcare Today @healthcaretoday.bsky.social · 9d
A £1.99 million project at The University of Edinburgh and funded by UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is developing a portable brain-monitoring tool that can detect seizures much earlier and closer to home

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EPSRC project develops epilepsy scanner
The Edinburgh University project is developing a portable brain-monitoring tool that can detect seizures much earlier and closer to home.
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