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TECHNOLOGY

Drones could deliver defibrillators to cardiac arrest patients

By Liz Wells 09 September 2025

Drones could soon deliver defibrillators to people having cardiac arrest in the UK following successful demonstrations.

THE HEALTH INNOVATION NETWORK

Local change, national impact

01 September 2025

How to spread and sustain innovation, writes Richard Stubbs, chair of the Health Innovation Network and chief executive of Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber

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.

CRIME

Major study to tackle NHS fraud

By Liz Wells 12 August 2025

A new national research project is set to tackle fraud in the NHS, which costs an estimated £1.3bn each year.

NHS professionals to be trained on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

NHS healthcare professionals in England are to receive new training to be better able to support patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and ME.

NIHR

Alder Hey welcomes Europe's first Tesla MRI scanner

By Liz Wells 09 July 2025

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has become the first hospital in Europe to install a 3-Tesla MRI research scanner, which will provide faster, more detailed imaging and improve patient comfort.

TECHNOLOGY

NIHR awards over £3m funding for technologies to tackle brain injury

By Liz Wells 25 June 2025

The NIHR has awarded more than £3m to 35 new medical technologies to tackle brain injury.

TECHNOLOGY

Breakthrough in bowel cancer research to speed up diagnosis

By Liz Wells 23 April 2025

The Government says patients could soon benefit from technology to diagnose bowel cancer earlier, reducing the need for invasive colonoscopies and biopsies, and potentially saving valuable time and...

WORKFORCE

Research to tackle challenges facing NHS and care workforce

By Liz Wells 09 April 2025

NIHR is to invest £24m into five Workforce Research Partnerships (WRPs) that will develop and test innovations to improve the quality of health and social care services by improving staff retention...

TECHNOLOGY

Electronic Frailty Index updated

By Liz Wells 02 April 2025

The Electronic Frailty Index (eFI) tool, which enables GPs to predict older patients’ risks of living with frailty and therefore prevent falls and limit hospital stays and medication, has been upda...

TECHNOLOGY