Time to Breathe: Too many people are dying from ILD – commissioners can help change that
This article summarises findings from the Time to Breathe roundtable, a Boehringer Ingelheim-funded and commissioned initiative involving respiratory clinicians, commissioners, service leads and patient organisation representatives. Participants were compensated for their time. The article has been developed independently by Boehringer Ingelheim and reflects the discussions and recommendations arising from that ...
Understanding the deprescribing landscape: what our survey of NHS pharmacy stakeholders tells us
Aspire Pharma Ltd initiated and funded this article but had no input into the content and was able to review it in advance of publication for factual accuracy and compliance checks only.
Think harder. Move faster.
Innovation without clinical assurance stalls. But assurance without speed risks leaving patients and the primary care community behind. Balancing the two is how we scale technology to serve everyone equally.
The cost of not knowing: Why fragmented assurance threatens operational resilience
“I can’t be in all 34 hospitals at once.” Jo Dickson, chief clinical governance officer at Ramsay Health Care UK, captures a challenge that will be familiar to many healthcare leaders.
Autism diagnosis: Understanding the person, not just the condition
Across health and care systems, rising demand for autism assessments has brought increasing attention to waiting times, pathway capacity, and diagnostic thresholds. These are important challenges, but there is a risk that operational pressures can overshadow the fundamental purpose of diagnosis itself.
Transforming diagnostic capacity in Somerset through partnership
A new £17.8m community diagnostic centre (CDC) in Bridgwater is expanding diagnostic capacity across Somerset. Opened on 18 August, the centre demonstrates the value of long-term NHS and managed equipment services (MES) partnerships in delivering healthcare infrastructure at pace.
Healthcare has changed. Why hasn’t glove dispensing?
Disposable gloves have been workplace PPE for decades, but the humble glove box has barely evolved.
Faster rollout of life-changing insulin technology needed for adults with diabetes
When the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published Technology Appraisal 943 in December 2023, it marked a major advance in diabetes care1.
From advocacy to innovation: Holding the dementia voice in hospital technology design
Insights from the frontline: How dementia and delirium specialists are revealing the gap between what’s possible in nurse call system technology and what’s available in today’s hospitals.
How health record transformation creates capacity for modern healthcare
Health record transformation can address some of the NHS’s most persistent operational pressures: constrained estate, workforce capacity, rising administrative costs, and delayed access to clinical information. The experience of Bedfordshire Hospitals Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare Trust demonstrates how legacy digitisation, day-forward scanning, and modern digital governance can turn ...