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Browne Jacobson supports Cambridge Heartwear in launching wearable tech for rapid heart disease diagnosis

Browne Jacobson has supported an AI MedTech start-up to roll out innovative wearable technology that enables people to track their heart rate on the go.

Nick Smee

The UK and Ireland law firm advised Cambridge Heartwear on a wide range of legal issues during preparations for the commercial launch of HeartSense – described as

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Bristol NHS Group opens doors to tech providers to inspire staff, in flagship Elevate showcase  

Health and social care staff from two NHS trusts and the wider BNSSG integrated care system will engage with tech companies on 13 May, as Bristol NHS Group advances its digital strategy and looks to take forward the 10 Year Health Plan. 

Bristol NHS Group’s Local Health Tech Showcase is the latest in a new series of digital engagement events known as Elevate, which bring relevant health tech directly to NHS organisations, allowing trusts to engage their

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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

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Safety is now a duty of care across multiple sectors, says Fire Aware

The cultural change needed to bring about a shift in fire safety starts with a recognition of a duty of care by all of those responsible across multiple sectors, says growing fire safety body Fire Aware.

Everyone involved in the design, construction, maintenance and letting of the built environment needs to understand

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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

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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

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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

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Phoenix Software raised over £25k for St Leonard’s Hospice in 2025

Phoenix Software is proud to reflect on a successful year of fundraising in 2025, with a series of events and challenges raising significant funds in support of St Leonard’s Hospice.

The highlight of the year was Race for a Reason, a four-day challenge inspired by the BBC TV show Race Across the World. In July,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The WAN You Want: The Data Centre Magic of Christmas

Graham Jarvis

By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist

It’s that time of year again. The festive Christmas lights are about to be turned on in the high streets to welcome shoppers, enticing them to buy presents for their loved ones. However, not all the festive commerce occurs in physical stores.

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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,

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The whole nation ‘must step up’ to deter Russian threat of wider war in Europe

Reporter: Stuart Littleford

The head of the Armed Forces will issue a rallying cry this evening to the nation to build Britain’s resilience in the face of growing threats and uncertainty.

The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton will set out how a whole-nation response is needed in a more volatile

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How experiential learning is defining a new era in Government learning

By Lawrie Day, CEO at Cognitas Global

Today’s public sector organisations face unprecedented challenges in training and development. Despite real world risks such as cyber breaches greater than ever before, the UK Government and public sector departments are under pressure to achieve more with less in terms of training their people, stretching

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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

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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,

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