Category: Health & Social Care

A new £10 million scheme will give leading researchers and businesses, based in the UK, the chance to work together to develop treatments and cures for those facing life-threatening conditions...

An app that allows breast cancer patients to record treatment symptoms, with data delivered to clinicians in real time, is being trialled at NHS Lothian. OWise, created by Px HealthCare, lets...

The man tasked with building a new national digital platform for health and care in Scotland has hit out at “bullies” within the NHS and wider public sector. Alistair Hann,...

Scotland’s ‘first digital hospital’ will feature an operational command centre to help clinicians understand in realtime when patients are deteriorating. The state-of the-art University Hospital Monklands will be furnished with...

An Edinburgh healthcare technology company is launching ‘Scotland’s first dedicated jobs board for the care sector’. Novacare has built the platform to coincide with the Scottish Government’s Adult Social Care...

Improvements to NHSMail – the national secure collaboration service for health and social care in England and Scotland – will beef up cybersecurity and save 40,000 hours-a-year in manual process...

Scottish tech firm Wallet.Services has been appointed by the Improvement Service to explore how to make it easier for those living with a disability to apply for, and access, their...

An Edinburgh-based healthtech company has raised £9m in a private equity-led funding round. Current Health, formerly known as Snap40, provides a patient management product that predicts diseases and recommends specific...

When it comes to Scottish health and care Ian Crichton is about as experienced as they come. As a former NHS chief executive – he ran NHS National Services Scotland...

Lord Drayson seems a man on the move. As an amateur racing driver, it is perhaps an innate charateristic, and in the current debate around health data his foot is...