27th Feb 2019 OpinionBy Isabella Taylor Team ZPB were lucky enough to spend their Valentine’s Day with the Cambridge Health Network (CHN) as it kicked off its spring programme for the ‘Digital Health Summit’. Hosted at Bloomberg’s London HQ, the Summit aimed to answer the question of whether digital health is ‘promise or hype’, to which the resounding response…
27th Feb 2019 NewsOpinionThis week, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, announced a new NHS body for digital, data and technology, NHSX. The aim of this new joint-venture between NHS England/Improvement and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is to work more closely with technology companies to improve IT in the…
27th Feb 2019 Friday FiveIt was a big week for exciting new health innovations Sepsis test could show results in minutes A new rapid test for earlier diagnosis of sepsis is being developed by University of Strathclyde researchers. The device, which has been tested in a laboratory, may be capable of producing results in two-and-a-half minutes, the Biosensors and Bioelectronics…
27th Feb 2019 NewsOpinionAnd now the next video in our ZPB Insights series, where we speak to healthcare leaders, experts and gurus about a range of hot topics. Here, we speak to Paul Mears, former chief executive of Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, about why pharma needs to be part of the NHS transformation and how this…