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Top 10 Priorities for commissioners in the new NHS
Very useful document outliing the priorities in the new NHS available to download free
...New Blood Clot Prevention Device Launched in NHS
A woman has undergone a new procedure that could prevent thousands dying from blood clots after surgery.
Doreen Carter, 80 and from Wokingham, is thought to be the first in the world to have the device fitted, doctors say.
The ...
UK NHS MedTech Market Access Conference London
The medtech industry is constantly facing challenges with Market access. Wellards has put together a new line up of speakers to help you meet these challenges in the new NHS.
Its remarkable how many doors can open with the right approach ...
NICE considers treatment for breast cancer prevention
In a historic move, NHS cost regulators are considering giving women with a strong family history of breast cancer treatment to prevent the disease from developing.
A proposed update to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellences ...
NICE will ensure consistent care in commissioning landscape
NICE guidance and quality standards will help provide consistent care for patients within the new NHS commissioning landscape, say experts.
From April 2013, the new NHS commissioning structure will mean that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) take on budgets for their local ...
New NHS Spread and Adoption Tool Launched
The spread and adoption tool is a free, easy-to-use, web based application to help healthcare professionals at all levels increase the scale and pace of sustainable spread and adoption of new ideas.
This practical tool represents what we ...
Best practice tariffs and their impact
The report looks at their influence on day case surgery, fragility hip fractures and acute stroke. The report includes findings from a review of the quality of the data underpinning BPTs payment as part of the payment by results ...
NHS spends 2 billion GBP a year on respiratory disease with variation in outcomes
There is significant variation in outcomes across England including a four fold variation in admissions and a two-fold variation in mortality.
The respiratory programme has produced a wealth of support, practical help and guidance for clinicians, commissioners ...
New hope for elderly victims of disease that causes blindness Oraya Therapy
People with wet age related macular degeneration wet AMD, the leading cause of blindness in the UK, currently manage their condition with an intensive programme of hospital visits and injections directly into the eyeball.
But doctors say the need ...
The Fluorescent Future of Surgery
TEDMED just released a fascinating talk about color-coded surgery by Dr. Quyen Nguyen, a surgeon at the University of California San Diego. We’ve recently covered some pivotal developments in Nature Medicine and Science Translational Medicine that describe the use of ...
UK GPs leading the way for online services
The 2012 Commonwealth International Health Policy survey shows the UK is top of the table when it comes to using health information technology.
The survey of nearly 8,500 primary care doctors in Australia, Canada, France,Germany, the Netherlands, New ...
Eye clinics cannot cope with demand for sight saving drugs
Only half of patients with a condition called wet age related macular degeneration, or wet AMD for short, are being seen within the recommended timeframe of two weeks, according to a survey of opthalmologists.
Four out of 10 clinics ...
Examples of good practice that has helped improve quality and productivity across the NHS and social care
The Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) collection is a resource to share examples of successful good ideas with colleagues in the NHS.
It includes case studies of how health and social care are improving quality and productivity, together with topics from ...
Device Makers Need to Face New Economic Reality
According to new report from Frost & Sullivan, the device market, valued at $102.1 billion in 2011, will grow to $156.8 billion by 2018, at a more modest growth rate of 6.3 percent.
While cutting-edge technological developments and the ...
Information on plans for Payment by Results in 2013 to 2014 announced
As in previous years, information and a provisional timetable on plans for Payment by Results in 2013-14 is announced. The Department of Health is sense checking the draft payment by results tariff for 2013/14 with a small number of organisations ...
New Radiotherapy Treatment for WET AMD successful results presented
NEWARK, Calif.--()--Oraya Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the results of the INTREPID trial of radiation therapy for wet AMD were first presented during the 12th EURETINA Congress in Milan, Italy. The INTREPID study is ...
NICE launches first clinical trial into medical device effectiveness
The new role of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in testing the effectiveness of medical devices that could save the NHS money and improve patient outcomes was put into practise this week with the launch of ...
Patients to get new treatments more quickly
The NHS will have to comply with NICE guidance on new drugs and treatments or explain to patients why there is a delay, under a new scheme announced today.
This will help end the unfair practice where some parts of ...
Smoking related hospital admissions top 1250 a day new figures show
An estimated 460,000 hospital admissions in 2010 2011 among people aged 35 and over were due to smoking, according to new figures.
This is the equivalent of 1,260 admissions a day representing one in 20 of all admissions to hospital in ...
NHS Change Model
A call for evidence on how procurement in the NHS can be transformed has recently been issued. Views and contributions are being sought from the NHS, industry, other government departments, the academic, scientific and third sectors and social care. This could ... Many lives could be saved if hospitals diagnosed and treated blood clots in the legs and lungs more quickly, the healthcare watchdog says. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence says some hospitals are testing for blood clots ...
Zilico Ltd is pioneering new technologies that will allow swifter, more accurate detection of cervical cancer and precancerous conditions. Cervical cancer affects around 500,000 women worldwide each year and is responsible for 300,000 deaths. Under current screening practices, in the UK ... This map shows which community eye care pathways are available where, according to the current arrangement of PCT clusters. To find out the details of which Local Optical Committees are successfully managing specific pathways, click on the relevant PCT cluster
London doctors are trialling touchless technology for intricate keyhole surgery, where they can manipulate images with their voice and hand gestures rather than a keyboard and mouse. Gaming systems such as the Xbox Kinect already use a version of the technology, ... Minute quantities of a special non-toxic glue are injected into the affected veins, using a tiny catheter guided by ultrasound. Blood then finds its way through other more healthy veins and the diseased varicose veins wither and become less visible. Early ... From the NHS Monitor CCG map you will see just how far the reforms have pushed ahead since they became law at the end of March. Bnleys has also provided a useful ‘tip tool’ to guide you through the functionality ... This report from Diabetes UK shows that less than half of people with the condition are getting the basic minimum care they need, with some areas seeing only six per cent of people with diabetes getting the regular checks and services recommended ... NICE should produce clinical guidelines that look at multiple-morbidities, as the number of people with long-term medical conditions rises. Last week, a study in The Lancet found that the nearly a quarter of all people in Scotland have two ... SAN ANTONIO, May 15, 2012 PRNewswire BiO2 Medical, Inc. a Texas based medical device manufacturer with corporate offices in San Antonio, Texas, and R&D and manufacturing operations inGolden, Colorado, announced today that it has received ... Improving outcomes for people with respiratory disease is a key priority for the NHS. A companion document that sets out 45 actions for the NHS has been published to support the Outcomes Strategy for COPD and Asthma, published last July. The download ...
NHS Improvement has published Fulfilling the Potential a Better Journey for Patients, a Better Deal for the NHS. We have seen spread and adoption of enhanced recovery pathways to many specialities beyond the original four surgical specialities. ... Oraya Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the INTREPID clinical trial of radiation therapy has met its primary endpoint of reduction in anti-VEGF injections for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). The INTREPID study is the first sham-controlled double-masked ... A £180 million government scheme that will provide grant funding for innovative small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and academics to develop solutions to healthcare challenges will open for applications at the end of April. Statistical press notice Monthly critical care beds, cancelled urgent operations and delayed transfers of care data, NHS England, March 2012 and revisions from April 2011 – February 2012 Health secretary Andrew Lansley has set out the government’s strategic objectives for the NHS Commissioning Board Authority. The Department of Health will hold the authority to account for its performance against four strategic objectives, relating to: transferring power to ... FREE Parliament report to download Expenditure on the NHS has risen rapidly and consistently since it was established on 5th July 1948. In the first full year of its operation, the Government spent 11.4bn GBP on health in the UK. In ... The Prime Minister has this week announced a £180m government scheme that will help to address the valley of death faced by UK life science companies looking to get their innovative ideas for medical breakthroughs into the healthcare marketplace. The Biomedical ... Over the past year, Horizon has been behind the scenes at one of Britains leading cancer hospitals, the Royal Marsden in London. The film follows Rosemary, Phil and Ray as they undergo remarkable new treatments from a billion pound genetically targeted ... A network of 22 new centres specialising in treating patients who suffer from major trauma will open across England, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley today announced. These specialist trauma centres will provide round-the-clock life saving treatment ... Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has thanked NHS staff for their work over the last year and reassured them the Health and Social Care Act explicitly supports the core principles of the NHS. These are: care provided free at the ... The core principles of the act mean that doctors and nurses will be able to tailor services for their patients, more choice will be given to patients over how they are treated, and bureaucracy in the NHS will be ... The official NICE Guidance app is available to download now for users of Android and iPhone smartphones. The free app allows quick and easy access to all of NICEs recommendations and advice, and has been developed in response to demand from ... BiO2 Medical Inc., a San Antoniobased medical-device manufacturer, raised $13.7 million in a recent round of financing. The funding included $1 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. A San Antonio venture capital fund, the Targeted Technology Fund, made the largest investment, ... THE London Eye Hospital is offering a new single-use contact lens that is able to detect glaucoma, which is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the UK. A new report published by NHS Diabetes sets out the shocking cost to both patients and the NHS of poor quality diabetic foot care. The report shows that around £650 million is spent on foot ...
Patients continue to report improvements in aspects of care that matter most to them, and 84 per cent of patients rated their experience as excellent or very good, according to the results of the 2011 Patient Experience Outpatient Survey. The results ... It is feared that the UK could face a Blindness epidemic, the Daily Express has claimed today. The newspaper has reported that Britain faces a sight loss epidemic due to progressive eye conditions that is being grossly underestimated by ... for the period April 2011 to September 2011. This publication considers the change in patients self reported health status for the four common elective surgical procedures in the PROMs programme: groin hernia surgery, hip replacement, knee replacement and varicose vein ...
All areas of scientific activity relevant to surgery will be considered by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Applications supporting multi-disciplinary collaborations will be particularly encouraged. The call is open for a longer period of time than usual, ...
HEALTHCARE company Cellnovo is to begin the first major clinical trial of its hi-tech diabetes management system. The trial will see the first 100 type 1 diabetes patients use the company’s unique system, which uses the latest in mobile technology. The system ... VCs Bullish about Medical Devices The device industry surpasses, for the first time, the pharma industry in attracting VC funds. Investors parked $8.4 billion in 738 healthcare company deals, marginally lower than 2010 numbers, when they invested $8.3 billion in 747 deals. ... A new, open, two-stage competition to designate and fund National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Healthcare Technology Co-operatives (HTCs) has now opened. The scheme aims to provide NIHR infrastructure funding for NHS Organisations to act as centres of expertise to develop ... A total of 176 of the 252 foundation, acute, mental health and ambulance trusts in England and Wales representing £3 billion ... NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE CENTRE FOR HEALTH TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES EVALUATION PROGRAMME UPDATE 22 December 2011 for Products considered by the Medical Technologies Advisory Committee, please click on the link below This review of hospital efficiency has found that there are many ways in which hospitals could improve efficiency and reduce the need for cutbacks in services for patients. It cites length of stay and day surgery rates as examples ... TWO orthopaedic surgeons recently recruited by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust have introduced new keyhole procedures accelerating recovery rates for patients. RULES governing the procurement of works services and supplies by contracting authorities including the NHS will change on 1 January raising the financial thresholds above which contracts must be opened up to the European market. The official report on NHS performance shows the NHS is on track to deliver up to £5.9bn savings this financial year whilst maintaining or improving quality of services. Every penny saved will be reinvested in patient care. The Quarter 2 report, ... The Department of Health sees self-governing foundation status as necessary if hospitals are to succeed in a financially demanding environment. Becoming a foundation trust requires strong governance, long-term financial viability, and a framework to secure delivery of quality services. This
A Must Read NEW Report available in PDF download. NHS success in adopting innovation helps support growth The move was revealed as part of the Chancellor of the Exchequers autumn review, which also included plans to link GP and hospital data on patient outcomes.
A UK MedTech company has made a significant breakthrough in the fight against diabetes, designing a desk top device that can better detect the disease at a fraction of the cost of existing technologies.
Oxford Medical Diagnostics’s analyser has been shown ... The number of lung cancer patients benefiting from life-saving surgery has shot up by 60 per cent while the operative mortality rate has halved in recent years as a new generation of specialist lung surgeons start to come ... A WORRYING 13% increase in the number of injuries and deaths related to medical devices has led to the announcement of changes to the way reports are investigated. The Department of Health’s National Institute for Health Research in partnership with Health and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has announced the creation of a new Clinical Practice Research Datalink service, which will be fully established by 1 April ... The Department of Health are in the process of implementing fundamental changes to the way they approach the policy and methodology behind the national Payment by Results PbR tariff. To understand how these changes will influence the future direction of Payment ... RESEARCHERS are predicting that cancer prevalence will soar by 45% over the next 20 years unless the NHS gets to grips with smoking and obesity. The Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme at the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) welcomed the appointment last week of a new external assessment centre. The centre will provide NICE with independent assessment of the evidence for medical technologies ... Speaking to the Royal College of General Practitioners on Saturday morning, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced 11 new areas of medicine whose outcomes for patients will be audited, monitored and regularly published in future. This brings to 40 the total number ... NICE is calling on organisations which have tried creative new ways to put NICE guidance into practice to enter the 2012 NICE Shared Learning Awards. The awards seek to recognise services and organisations that have developed effective ways to put NICE ... OBESE children as young as 11 could soon be given gastric balloons as part of an NHS drive to help young people lose weight. NHS Wolverhampton City is aiming to save £1.2m over the next four years through the use of digital pen technology. Prime minister David Cameron has announced that the government is investing up to £15 million to support the recommendations to improve prosthetics services for military veterans who have lost a limb due to activities while serving their ... National clinical directors and advisors - sometimes referred to as Tsars - are experts that oversee the implementation of a national service framework (NSF) or major clinical or service strategy They act as advocates for the NSFs or strategy within the ... Following recent discussions on governance arrangements of PCT clusters, Jim Easton, national director for improvement and efficiency, wrote to chief executives setting out conclusions of the NHS Management Board His letter explains that out of the four governance models ... When Maps and Apps was launched we committed to creating a showcase of the best ideas. From this week we will begin profiling ideas and existing apps here on the website, and at a special event. More details about that ... WINNERS ANNOUNCED OF THE 2011 MEDICAL FUTURES AWARDS London, Monday 6th June, 2011 The Medical Futures Innovation Awards, Europes leading showcase of early stage innovation in healthcare, today announced this years winners ... A call for ideas and evidence on how the adoption and spread of innovation can be accelerated throughout the NHS has been issued by the Department of Health. Ideas could include actions for government, the Department of Health, industry, the National ... Medical technologies that advance the QIPP agenda by saving healthcare providers time and cost were the focus of an event featuring Government and NHS speakers alongside demonstrations of groundbreaking new technologies. The inaugural Healthcare Efficiency through Technology Expo (pictured), held at Olympia ...
In April 2011 Jim Easton, national director of improvement & efficiency wrote to NHS chief executives inviting them to join a product pricing project. This pilot benchmarking exercise was to examine the prices paid by individual trusts for the same goods, ... He suggested the health service has a vital opportunity to modernise its approach in this area and improve efficiency as a result.
The National Horizon Scanning Centre (NHSC) invites you to explore our enhanced website at www.nhsc-healthhorizons.org.uk.
...and can also help to deliver more efficient care to patients.
Help address unmet clinical need and win a cash award and a prestigious research collaboration - three current competitions
A study published in the Lancet ahead of a high-level UN meeting on non-communicable disease in September has revealed that 15 million people are already obese in the UK, a figure expected to rise by a further 11 million by ...The model has been created to support the NHS to adopt a shared approach to leading change and transformation. We hope to build this website further and add practical information, tools and support over the coming months. Please tell us ...
NHS wants more innovative procurement processes and more widespread procurement of innovation
Blood clot care risking lives NICE says
Zilico UK receives funding for innovative cervical cancer diagnostic device
Atlas of Optical Variation Enhanced Eye Health Services in England
Touchless technology aids surgeons in London
VenaSeal Sapheon Closure System closes varicose veins with glue
Excellent Free UK Clinical Commissioning Map
Diabetes healthcare has reached state of crisis
The Lancet found that the nearly a quarter of all people in Scotland have two or more chronic diseases
First IVC Filter with a Prophylactic Use Indication gets CE Mark
NHS Outcomes strategy for COPD and asthma
NHS Improvement encourages spread of good practice
Breakthrough Oraya Therapy trial has shown to reduce ANTI VEGF injections for Wet AMD sufferers
180 Million GBP available government funding to bridge the valley of death for medical breakthroughs
Monthly critical care beds cancelled urgent operations and delayed transfers of care data England
Health secretary sets out objectives for NHS Commissioning Board Authority
NHS Funding and Expenditure Since 1948
180 million GBP on offer to support UK MedTech
BBC Horizon programme Showcases NHS MedTech Innovation at Royal Marsden Hospital London
22 New major trauma centres to save up to 600 lives every year
Health Secretary thanks NHS staff and sets out ambition for clinically led NHS
The health and social care bill today gained royal assent to become the Health and Social Care Act 2012
NICE Guidance App available on your smartphone
BiO2 Medical raises 13.7 million USD
London Eye Hospital gives high tech contact lenses to help prevent blindness
The new electronic contact lens, called Triggerfish, measures pressure within the ...£650 million is spent on foot ulcers or amputations each year
Patients are getting excellent or very good care in the NHS but more needs to be done
Sight problems predicted to rise in UK
This is the latest publication of provisional post-operatives scores from the UK NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme
Researchers across the country have until 25 May to make funding bids for surgical research projects
Clinical trial of new wireless diabetes management system
The device industry surpasses for the first time the pharma industry in attracting VC funds
NIHR Healthcare Technology Co operatives competition 2012
The shop window for NHS Buyers and NHS Suppliers
Procurement professionals at NHS trusts have agreed to use a product comparison website to gain visibility and control of spend.
Products reviewed by the Medical Technologies Advisory Committee up to November 2011
NHS hospitals can do more with less
New orthopaedic consultants reduce patients recovery times at NHS Hospital
Consultants Shyam Kumar and Kuntal Patel are both based at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. Kumar ...Rules governing the procurement of supplies to the NHS will change on 1 January 2012
NHS on track to deliver savings to reinvest in care
Achievement of foundation trust status by NHS hospital trusts: sixtieth report of session 2010-12
Innovation Health And Wealth Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion into the NHS
in the life sciences industries. That in turn enables these industries to invest in developing the technology and services the NHS needs for ...NHS patients will be able to access their own personal health records online by 2015 the government has announced
The review states: The government will ensure all NHS patients can ...UK MedTech company has made a significant breakthrough in the fight against diabetes
New audit reveals big increase in lung cancer surgery
13% increase in number of injuries and deaths related to medical devices report shows
The new approach to adverse incident report handling follows a review ...Launch of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Service
Payment By Results Update
Cancer prevalence to rise by 45 percent by 2030 new research warns
The results of research published in the British Journal of Cancer predict that, while ...New Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme MTEP at NICE announced
Transparency in the NHS Good for patients good for doctors
Share your story on using NICE guidance for prestigious award
Obese children as young as 11 whose size is endangering their health are to be given gastric balloons on the NHS in a drastic attempt to make them lose weight
Similar to a gastric band in that it reduces the amount of food that can ...Introduction of digital pens at NHS Wolverhampton City to save £1.2m
The PCT has signed a contract with Destiny Wireless to allow more than 600 clinicians use the pens to ...New NHS treatment centres for military heroes
Department of Health National Clinical Directors - Listed
PCT cluster governance update
NHS invites software developers to create healthcare apps
Medical Future Awards 2011
Ground Breaking Ideas Recognised as the Medical Treatments of TomorrowSpreading innovation in the NHS call for evidence and ideas
London Expo provides springboard for new healthcare technologies
MedTech Product Pricing Differences Across NHS Exposed
The NHS should adopt the most up-to-date methods of helping long-term care patients, according to health secretary Andrew Lansley.
Over 15 million people are treated as long-term care patients in the UK and these individuals account ...The National Horizon Scanning Centre (NHSC) website new features
The NHSC is funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to provide key NHS decision makers with advance notice of new and emerging ...UK Dept of Health report on good procurement 'Which can deliver more than just cost savings Procuring new and innovative technologies can have a significant impact on costs....
About 30% of a trust's budget will be spent on procurement. It is likely to be the biggest expense after payroll, yet it is probably not something that chief executives ..."Devices for Dignity" - UK NHS healthcare technology competition
The burden placed on the NHS in treating UK obesity cases is likely to grow more pronounced in the next two decades, according to a new study.
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