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UK receives funding for automated insulin pump rollout this year

January 3, 2024 By Sean Whooley

Following new government guidance, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has plans to roll out automated insulin delivery systems. Last month, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued guidance supporting automated insulin delivery for type 1 diabetes. NICE published guidance recommending hybrid closed-loop systems for eligible people with type 1 diabetes in […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Drug Pumps, Drug-Device Combinations, Health Technology, Software / IT Tagged With: Diabetes UK, U.K. National Health Service (NHS), U.K. National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE)

UK recommends Axonics SNM for overactive bladder

September 8, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Axonics Modulation Technologies (NSDQ:AXNX) announced today that NICE suggested using its r-SNM system in the UK. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) offers evidence-based guidance to the UK and, in guidance published last week, it recommended Axonics’ sacral neuromodulation (SNM) system for treating refractory overactive bladder for the country’s National Health Service (NHS). […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Neurological, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Tagged With: Axonics Modulation Technologies, U.K. National Health Service (NHS), U.K. National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE)

UK’s National Health Service to tap “ethical hackers” in $27m cybersecurity push

November 27, 2017 By Fink Densford

The UK’s NHS is looking to spend $26.7 million (GBP £20 million) to reinforce its central cybersecurity unit with “ethical hackers”, as it aims to bolster its protection from future attacks on its health services systems, according to a The Times UK report. The new additions will reportedly monitor for emerging threats and work alongside […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Software / IT Tagged With: Cybersecurity, U.K. National Health Service (NHS)

UK Hospitals get $27m to improve cybersecurity in wake of WannaCry attack

July 14, 2017 By Fink Densford

A group of UK hospitals are receiving $27.3 million (£21 million) to improve their cybersecurity in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack that occurred earlier this year and shut down a number of healthcare systems, according to a Guardian report. UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the extra money was pledged to try and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Health Information Technology Tagged With: Cybersecurity, U.K. National Health Service (NHS)

U.K.’s NHS uses McLaren Formula 1 tech for pediatric monitoring

November 13, 2015 By Fink Densford

The U.K.’s National Health Service is using technology originally developed for McLaren’s Formula One team for its drivers to monitor pediatric patients, according to The Telegraph. The technology, which continuously monitors heart rate, breathing rate and oxygen levels, is being tested at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital as part of the real-time adaptive and predictive indicator […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: McLaren Applied Technologies, U.K. National Health Service (NHS)

U.K. poised to ban metal-on-metal hips

October 30, 2013 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

The U.K. is poised to ban metal-on-metal hips

Regulators in the U.K. are reportedly poised to ban the use of metal-on-metal hip implants after finding unacceptably high rates of failure in a review of 17,000 cases.

The proposed ban, which would affect hospitals in the U.K.’s National Health Service, follows a review by the country’s National Institute for Health & Care Excellence that found failure rates as high as 43% for some of the implants, The Telegraph reported.

Filed Under: Implants, Metal-on-Metal, News Well, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Hips, U.K. National Health Service (NHS), U.K. National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE)

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