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20th February 2023

Inhaler recycling scheme helping reduce NHS Wales emissions as £800k funding pot launches

A Welsh Government funded inhaler recycling scheme is helping NHS Wales reduce its carbon emissions and work towards Net Zero ambitions, as a funding pot opens for the social and...

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16th February 2023

More two-year-olds across Wales to benefit from funded childcare with further £10 million investment

More two-year olds in Wales are set to benefit from funded childcare as scheme expands with £10 million of further Welsh Government funding. The extra funding is part of a...

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15th February 2023

First step in the development of a new regional treatment hub underway

Health Minister Eluned Morgan has today [15th February 2023] announced the development of a new diagnostics and treatment centre for the South East Wales region, located in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon...

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14th February 2023

North Wales Tech Start-Up to Collaborate with NHS in Innovative New App

Carnedd is delighted to announce that it is working with colleagues from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, NHS Wales and the SBRI Centre of Excellence to explore the feasibility of...

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10th February 2023

Midatech Pharma Raises £5M in Private Placement

Midatech Pharma, a Cardiff-based drug delivery technology company which last month warned of an urgent need for alternative sources of funding, has entered into binding agreements with institutional US investors to...

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10th February 2023

USW Develops Online Training Device for Medics Thousands of Miles from a ‘Patient’

Medical and tech experts in Wales have worked together to develop a virtual training device which can allow medics to ‘touch’ a patient, even if they are thousands of miles...

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9th February 2023

New Evidence Centre aims to improve health and social care in Wales

A new Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre, funded by Welsh Government through Health and Care Research Wales, is being set up to provide Ministers and other decision-makers with...

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9th February 2023

Harmonising Electronic Health Records For Reproducible Research: Challenges, Solution and Recommendations

THE UK-WIDE CARDIOVASCULAR COVID-19 RESEARCH COLLABORATION KNOWN AS THE CVD-COVID-UK CONSORTIUM HAS PUBLISHED NEW RESEARCH IN BMC MEDICAL INFORMATICS AND DECISION MAKING, DESCRIBING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EFFICIENT, TRANSPARENT, SCALABLE, AND REPRODUCIBLE HEALTH...

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9th February 2023

New Data Lab at the Forefront of Developing Population Health

AN INNOVATIVE NEW DATA LAB DEVELOPED BY THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR POPULATION HEALTH & WELLBEING RESEARCH IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF DEVELOPING POPULATION HEALTH RESEARCH.  THE DATA LAB CREATES EASILY...

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9th February 2023

Dementias Platform UK Launches New Ground-Breaking Imaging Hub

A GROUND-BREAKING IMAGING HUB, DEVELOPED BY THE DEMENTIAS PLATFORM (DPUK) DATA PORTAL TEAM BASED IN POPULATION DATA SCIENCE AT SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, WILL PROVIDE RESEARCHERS WITH UNIQUE ACCESS TO BRAIN IMAGING SCANS, TOGETHER...

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9th February 2023

Health Technology Wales Open Call for non-medicine health and care technologies to improve the lives of people living with cancer in Wales

Health Technology Wales has launched an open topic call to find non-medicine health and care technologies that could improve the lives of people living with cancer in Wales. It is...

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9th February 2023

FUJIFILM Healthcare introduces lightweight, wireless FDR D-EVO III G80i long-view digital radiography panel

FUJIFILM Healthcare has extended its FDR D-EVO DR panel range of digital radiography (DR) solutions with the introduction of the FDR D-EVO III G80i DR panel. This recently introduced 80cm...

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8th February 2023

Child criminal exploitation “toolkit” brings services together to protect children in Wales

Research is helping to protect children from criminal exploitation by developing Wales-specific resources for practitioners, parents and young people. Research by Dr Nina Maxwell, Joint Specialty Lead for Social Care at...

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8th February 2023

Written Statement: NHS Pay award enhancement for 2022/2023

Eluned Morgan, Minister for Health and Social Services Following my update last week, negotiations with trade unions have continued in earnest I would like to thank trade union colleagues who...

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8th February 2023

Eakin Healthcare Surgical Team returns to BACO International 2023

Cardiff-based Eakin Healthcare Surgical division (part of the Eakin Healthcare Group) are returning to BACO International 2023 to showcase their range of specialist surgical solutions for ENT procedures. BACO International...

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7th February 2023

ProColl makes using structured collagen affordable at last!

ProColl are now able to offer Bovine Acid Soluble Collagen, the go-to product for structured & biocompatible volume use, at a significantly lower cost than ever seen before. ProColl’s single figure price...

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6th February 2023

New report highlights essential role of research nurses and midwives across Wales

There are at least 265 research nurses and midwives across Wales, across all areas of healthcare, reveals a landmark new report by a group of NIHR 70@70 Senior Nurse &...

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6th February 2023

Study to support people living with long Covid

The Long Covid Personalised Self-management support co-design and Evaluation (LISTEN) study will evaluate the effectiveness of a new self-management support programme, co-designed by people living with long Covid. Participants will...

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3rd February 2023

SBRI Challenge: Changing the Way We Deliver Emergency Care

There is an exciting opportunity to work with the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust (WAST) and Health Boards within Wales to reduce the unprecedented demand on both ambulances and Urgent...

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2nd February 2023

Plan to address NHS workforce challenges

The Welsh Government has today set out its plans to address the challenges of staffing the Welsh NHS. The National Workforce Implementation Plan has been published in response to the...

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