NHS England has opened a tender worth an estimated £35 million to procure privacy enhancing technology (PET) “to provide robust protection and deliver a standard approach to support safe data use”. The technology is to be initially deployed for the federated data platform (FDP) programme and will potentially include cloud-based...
ERDF Funding… a successful conclusion
Last week, we hosted the Medlink Midlands business support and impact celebration event at The Space Park in Leicester. Interim CEO, Melanie Davidson, was able to report that the collective ERDF Projects; INSTILS, ACTIS and SoLSTICE have seen the organisation award a total of £3.5m across 427 individual grants, which...
WMAHSN Impact Report 2022/23
It is with immense pleasure that we introduce the 2022-23 annual impact report of the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN). As the NHS celebrates its 75th year, 2023 also marks an important milestone for the AHSN Network which was established by NHS England 10 years ago to spread...
Healthcare firm continues expansion with purchase of Swedish company
Birmingham healthcare company Salts Healthcare has acquired ostomy product supplier MCare AB of Sweden. The acquisition of MCare is part of Salts Healthcare’s continued strategy to increase its global reach. Having grown its turnover and market share in the UK in recent years, the family-owned business now has defined international...
The Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023
On 9th June 2023, the UK government published a statutory instrument amending the UK Medical Device Regulation (2002). This publication was released after public consultation and has been approved by each UK House of Parliament. As you know, post Brexit, the UK and the EU are undergoing regulatory reforms...
China Britain Business Council Partners with the Centre for International Economy and Technology Cooperation
The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) partnered with the Centre for International Economy and Technology Cooperation (CIETC) and the Wuxi Municipal Government to host the China-UK Digital Economy Innovation and Development Forum in Wuxi, Jiangsu, last Friday. The event was supported by the British Embassy and was delivered by Liangxi District...
Scan Global Logistics continues its European expansion in France, opening its third office in two years
Scan Global Logistics (SGL) continues its European expansion as they open a new office in Dunkirk, France. It's SGL's third office in France and part of establishing a centre of expertise in Northern France within the Industrial Projects sector. The expansion follows the recent opening in Romania; reportedly, other countries...
XCAM’s advanced camera system to be used in world first space weather observation
UK based XCAM Ltd, leaders in specialist digital camera systems, has announced a collaboration with UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) to produce a high-quality scientific space system, to observe and record global thermospheric winds that impact radio and GPS. This space mission (WindCube) will be the first time a...
How can NHS teams navigate medicines optimisation challenges?
Spirit Healthcare posed the question, ‘What’s the biggest challenge when rolling out medicines optimisation programmes?’ to Clinical Pharmacy Congress attendees. Head of Medicines Optimisation, Selma Abed, dives into the roadblocks NHS teams face when implementing medicines optimisation programmes. By Maddie Tudor on June 15, 2023 Last month I attended the Clinical...
MTI Expo was a roaring success!
MTI brings the UK life science industry together to collaborate, network and grow. On 7-8 June, Medilink Midlands and our members and partners exhibited at Birmingham’s NEC as part of the national Med-Tech Innovation Expo and Conference. The Med-Tech Innovation Expo and Conference is a leading national healthcare technologies conference,...
