Dr Zubir Ahmed, health innovation and safety minister (Credit: Department of Health and Social Care)
New qualifications have been launched to plug skills gaps in the UK’s MedTech sector, with an estimated 145,000 jobs…
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Nine “high-potential” digital health companies have been selected to participate in a Midlands-focused accelerator programme.
Grow Digital Health Midlands launched in February 2025, replacing what was formerly known as the East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator.
Delivered…
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust delivers over 100 clinical services across 200 centres and hospitals in the West Midlands. With 5,000 staff and numerous external service providers, protecting sensitive data and controlling remote…
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An adult social care programme in the West Midlands which uses digital technologies to help citizens live in their own homes for longer across has been extended.
Speaking at TechUK event on 10 March 2025,…
Health Innovation East Midlands and Health Innovation West Midlands have launched Grow a programme designed to support companies to develop and scale digital health innovations within the NHS and care sector.
The Grow Digital Health…
The NHS is piloting an iPhone device and app that helps detect throat cancer earlier and give patients the all-clear for the disease faster.
An initial trial on triaged low-risk patients at University Hospitals of…
A child-friendly app from Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest finalist Little Journey has gone live at Walsall Manor Hospital to help young patients prepare for surgery or treatment.
Little Journey reached the 2022 finals of the…
A GP practice in the West Midlands has reduced the ‘8am rush’ for appointments by using an online patient triage solution.
The Sutton Coldfield Group Practice implemented the Rapid Health Smart Triage system for its…
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has just signed a 10-year contract with System C for an integrated electronic patient record (EPR) system, which will replace the trust’s in-house built EPR and accelerate its…
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Health and social care providers across the West Midlands have started to integrate cancer registry data from patients diagnosed with cancer into InterSystems HealthShare, a shared care record that will support faster care and…
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