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Highland launches Elevate – bringing health tech direct to the NHS

A new showcase series is reshaping NHS-supplier engagement. Pioneers at the first NHS host brought together hundreds of staff organisation-wide, along with major tech companies and niche innovators in a single day, already inspiring 10 further NHS providers to follow in 2026.

Highland has launched Elevate, a new health tech event series that is bringing

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The Long Goodbye

Can the seemingly intractable problem of delayed hospital patient discharge be solved by the creation of a single responsible body?

By Norman Niven, CEO at The Medication Support Company and former director at BUPA

What seems to be the problem?

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the NHS is greater numbers of patients experiencing delayed

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Fusion21 invites bids for £85 million Grounds Maintenance Framework

Fusion21 has announced the renewal of its national Grounds Maintenance Framework, worth up to £85 million over four years, and is now inviting bids from interested suppliers providing regional or national coverage.

The national procurement specialist is seeking competent firms operating in the public sector, including SMEs, to support its members in delivering grounds

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Sword Intelligence launches in the UK, bringing proven national-scale AI care operations set to transform healthcare in Greece

Following the announcement of a national collaboration with the Greek government, Sword Intelligence is bringing AI-led triage, care coordination and access operations to help the UK tackle waiting lists and access pressure.

Sword Intelligence has launched in the UK and Europe to bring AI-led care operations designed to help healthcare providers improve access, manage

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A shift from analogue to digital sits at the heart of the Government’s ambitious plans for NHS reform in England

Steve Sanghera

The 10-year health plan outlined earlier this year intends to make the NHS ‘digital by default’ and central to the overhaul will be the roll out of an NHS App tool which will read real-time data from wearables, biometric sensors or smart devices.

According to one Government source: “This Plan will take

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Over Four Million Working Days lost to Work-Place Stress in the Public Sector

Work-related stress is causing over four million lost working days per year in the public sector, with an overhaul of staff training needed to fix the problem, according to new analysis by Forbes Solicitors.

Ridwaan Omar

The government’s latest Employer Skills Survey shows that employers in education, health and social work, and public administration

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Blood transfusion at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) live with Clinisys™ WinPath

Critical service adopts the latest Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to support the transfusion laboratory testing and distribution of blood components and blood products for the population of ABUHB

The Blood Transfusion service at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has gone live with Clinisys™ WinPath in a first of type deployment in Wales.

The

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Why the government needs to borrow a ‘startup mentality’ to innovate better

While governments can’t afford to mimic the startup model entirely – nor should it with the margin for error far narrower – what they can and should do, argues Dr Jon Rimmer, Chief Experience Officer at Mercator Digital, is borrow key traits to improve innovation

Right now, governments are under a huge amount of

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AI helps ED doctors spot fractures as Northern Ireland deploys BoneView through Sectra 

Emergency departments and minor injury units across Northern Ireland are now benefitting from AI that helps clinicians accurately and efficiently identify bone fractures – deployed rapidly and at scale through Sectra Amplifier Services.

Sectra Amplifier Services, provided by Northern Ireland’s enterprise imaging partner Sectra, enables healthcare organisations to integrate AI tools directly into their

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The UK’s Rising Spine-Health Burden: Why Back and Neck Pain Are Now a Public-Sector Priority

By Anthony Ghosh, MD FRCSMR

Anthony Ghosh

Back and neck pain are often framed as inevitable features of modern life, an individual inconvenience rather than a collective challenge. Yet new evidence shows that spinal health has become one of the UK’s most significant, yet under-recognised, public-sector issues. Affecting nearly one in five adults, spine-related

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Why bungalows are a bad idea for older people’s housing

By Mike Lord, CEO and Chairman of Stiltz Homelifts

Mike Lord

For decades, the bungalow has been the gold standard of later-life housing. Single-storey living promises freedom from stairs, simpler maintenance, and the comfort of a private garden. For many older people, it has symbolised a sensible, even aspirational, step down from the

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Highland advisory board discussion: The single patient record

A new attempt to create a national, longitudinal health record was one of the big ideas in the 10 Year Health Plan. However, the use case and architecture is far from clear, and there are some big commercial issues to address with health tech vendors.

The NHS has a troubled history when it comes to

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AXREM and Highland extend partnership to drive growth and visibility for the UK’s diagnostic health tech sector

Mark Venables

UK trade association AXREM and health tech growth specialist Highland have extended their partnership for two further years, reaffirming a shared commitment to supporting growth across the UK’s diagnostic and health technology markets.

AXREM represents member companies that collectively provide the majority of diagnostic medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment used in UK

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The future is connected healthcare – How IoMT ecosystems can solve medication non-adherence

By Mark Scrivens, FPT UK Chief Executive Officer, FPT Corporation

Mark Scrivens

Although diagnosis can be one of the great challenges in healthcare, once a healthcare plan is developed, we naturally assume that patients take the medications that clinicians prescribe for them. However, this could not be further from reality. In fact, medication non-adherence

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McAvoy Awarded Place on NHS Commercial Solutions Framework Leading offsite manufacturer

McAvoy has, for the first time, secured a place on Lot 2: Modular & Prefabricated Building Services, within the NHS Commercial Solutions’ £1bn Modular & Prefabricated Building Solutions Framework.

Through this four-year award, public sector clients will be able to access McAvoy’s full suite of expertise to support the delivery of modular buildings across

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How pathologists are rapidly changing decades of clinical practice: Impact in Greater Manchester

Improvements to clinical practice and work-life balance are being achieved at pace by early adopters of digital pathology at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Luisa Motta and Dr Lynne Jamieson give the detail on the latest impact in a Greater Manchester wide programme.

Effective new digital multidisciplinary team meetings, better work-life

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UHS Goes Live with Miya Emergency

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust enhances ED performance through Miya Emergency digital integration

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) has successfully deployed Alcidion’s Miya Emergency across its largest site Southampton General Hospital, digitising emergency department processes, integrating disparate patient data and providing visibility of patient status and A&E activity.

UHS serves approximately

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Elevating Housing – Why the Future of UK Homes Must Look Beyond the Staircase

By Stiltz Homelifts/CEO Mike Lord

The UK is on the brink of a profound demographic transformation. By 2072, more than a quarter of the population – around 22.1 million people – will be aged 65 or over. Yet, the homes being built today are failing to meet the needs of this ageing society.

Mike

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Time to Regulate Medical Tourism and Protect the Reputation of the UK Aesthetics Industry

By Kagan Seymenoglu, CEO, Longevita

The global medical tourism market has grown exponentially over the past two decades – and nowhere is this trend more visible than in aesthetic medicine. Every year, more UK patients travel abroad for low-cost cosmetic procedures, drawn by persuasive marketing, short waiting times, and the promise of “holiday surgery”

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New consultancy targets organisational culture to improve health and social care outcomes

Richard McKenzie

A new UK-based consultancy, MPP Culture, has launched to support health and social care organisations in addressing organisational culture as a root cause of care quality issues, workforce challenges, and compliance risks.

The consultancy offers structured cultural assessments and advisory support to providers, boards, commissioners, and investors. Its goal is to help

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