Category: Health & Social Care

Digital has been placed at the heart of a new strategic partnership between the NHS’s education body and a government innovation agency. NHS Education for Scotland (NES) will work closely...

A web-chat suicide support channel that had to be taken offline because it repeatedly crashed has been accused of being done ‘on the cheap’, according to MSPs. The Breathing Space...

Two family-run care homes in Edinburgh are using AI to help assess pain and comfort levels for residents – by monitoring tiny changes in their facial expressions. Elder Homes Ltd has...

A specialist medical device company spun out of the University of Glasgow has won a prestigious physics award for ‘revolutionising’ drugs inhalation technology. Nebu~Flow, which worked out a way to...

Two constituencies came together in September for an event designed to stimulate activity in an emerging technology cluster. At the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, members of the tech community met...

Healthcare innovators in Scotland are being urged to sign up to an NHS ‘clinical entrepreneur’ programme. The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) is designed to help healthcare professionals rapidly turn...

Scottish Government innovation minister Richard Lochhead recently tagged InnoScot Health and other organisations into a LinkedIn post, stating: “I’m giving a lot of thought just now as to how we...

North Lanarkshire’s new health and social care plan has pledged to be ‘bold and innovative’ in the ways that it delivers frontline services. The strategic commissioning document will find a...

Local authorities in Scotland are poised to adopt a new nationwide digital alarm system that will help keep some of the most vulnerable residents safe in their homes. Digital Office...