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UK trial launches to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis

By Liz Wells 10 September 2025

A major UCL-led clinical trial, aiming to transform the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease through a blood test, is welcoming its first participants.

UK RNA BIOFOUNDRY

Next-gen therapies for cancer and dementia fast-tracked with new facility

By Liz Wells 28 August 2025

The UK government is to invest £29.6m in a new facility that will springboard new RNA therapies, which could help tackle cancer, heart conditions, and other diseases.

DEMENTIA

NHS supporting record numbers of people living with dementia

By Liz Wells 26 August 2025

A record half a million people have received a dementia diagnosis on the NHS, new data reveals.

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Care England report calls for national dementia strategy

By Lee Peart 31 July 2025

A Care England report has highlighted the urgent need for a unified national dementia strategy, enhanced dementia-specific workforce training and sufficient sustainable funding to improve outcomes ...

DEMENTIA

Dementia group warns of global health crisis

By Lee Peart 21 May 2025

An international federation of dementia organisations has warned the world is heading towards a global health crisis.

TECHNOLOGY

Government backs technologies to support people with dementia

By Liz Wells 24 March 2025

People living with dementia are set to benefit from government-backed research designed to help them live more independently in their own homes.

TECHNOLOGY

High street opticians could use AI to help diagnose dementia with an eye scan

By Liz Wells 13 March 2025

Opticians could play a key role in identifying people at risk of dementia by spotting distinctive patterns in the back of the eye linked to early signs of the condition, new research reveals.

CARE ENGLAND

Government condemned for scrapping dementia targets

By Lee Peart 19 February 2025

The Government’s decision to drop dementia targets from its operational planning guidance has been condemned as ‘unacceptable and offensive’ by Care England.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

AI tool aims to use high street eye tests to spot dementia risk

By Liz Wells 21 January 2025

Data scientists and clinical researchers are working with high street opticians for the first time to develop a digital tool that can predict a person’s risk of dementia from a routine eye test.

TECHNOLOGY

Lightbulb moment - Multi-excitation Raman spectroscopy

By Liz Wells 28 October 2024

Each issue we are asking NHS trust and ICB workers to share their great ideas and moments of inspiration which boost care outcomes and productivity.

OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Trust director appointed University of Oxford associate professor

By Lee Peart 15 May 2024

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust director of research and development, Professor Vanessa Raymont, has been appointed an associate professor by the University of Oxford for making a significant an...