Nordic Consulting, an award-winning global healthcare and technology consultancy with over 3,300 employees, has appointed senior health tech executive, Claire Staple as Vice President of Strategy and Country Manager. The newly created role will strengthen Nordic’s existing footprint in Ireland, as Staple oversees the management of all existing client services and business operations. As a […]

NHS waiting lists could top eight million by next summer, with chronic staff shortages and a lack of funding suggested to be the main drivers, according to new data from the Health Foundation Charity. With an already record number of people on the hospital waiting list, as the winter months draw closer, long waits for emergency care are […]

Milton Keynes University Hospital has this week announced that it is launching a collaboration with Milton Keynes City Council, EXI, Apple and Loughborough University, with a view to help tackle diabetes through use of technology and financial incentives.  The aim of the Milton Keynes Activity Reward Programme is to encourage people with type 2 diabetes […]

A pilot project from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust which saw portable ECG devices used to monitor community patients on certain antipsychotic medications during the pandemic, has helped to inform to national guidance around ECGs. Through the pilot project, which spanned three months, patients could place the device on their knee and send […]

Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, has shared that their ‘pill school’ – designed to help children and young people move from liquid medication to tablets – has been made available virtually, with staff praising how the virtual offering means that young people accessing services remotely can […]