3rd February 2022
Winners announced for Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2022
18 life science companies from across the Midlands were delighted to be selected as winners at the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2022, which saw over 160 businesspeople from life science…
3rd February 2022
More than £4.5m to investigate and learn from hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections in Wales
More than £4.5m is being invested into a programme investigating hospital-acquired Covid-19 infections in Wales. Health Minister Eluned Morgan has pledged that all incidents of COVID-19 caught in hospitals will…
3rd February 2022
Medilink Midlands expands to Charnwood Campus
As part of Medilink Midlands strategic growth plans, the company is excited to announce that it has become the latest organisation to take space at Charnwood Campus the rapidly growing…
1st February 2022
Health Technology Wales Launches Search for Ideas that Could Transform Social Care
Health Technology Wales has embarked on a search for technology with the potential to transform Wales’ social sector. It has launched a social care open topic call requesting that technologies and…
31st January 2022
Academy launched to help health innovation ideas grow
Working with Medilink Midlands, East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN) has launched its first Innovation Academy to bring together all the relevant expertise a person will need to develop…
28th January 2022
New anti-Covid pill to be rolled out on the Welsh NHS
It will be made available to people with weakened immune systems from February 10. An antiviral pill to prevent at-risk groups from becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 will be rolled…
28th January 2022
ConvaTec Strikes Landmark US Deal
Medical products and technologies business ConvaTec Group has agreed to acquire Triad Life Sciences, a US-focused medical device company. The deal, for an initial $125m, represents an entry into the…
26th January 2022
One Wales Case Study: How SAIL Databank And The National Core Studies Data Assets Have Informed Welsh Government’s Pandemic Response Policy
Background to National Core Studies In response to the COVID-19 emergency, The UK Government swiftly established the National Core Studies (NCS) initiative in Summer 2020 to tackle the unique combination of health…
26th January 2022
Educ8 Celebrates National Apprenticeship Week
Educ8 are one of Wales’ top Apprenticeship and Training Programme providers offering apprenticeships across a wide range of sectors. Apprenticeships are a fantastic way to recruit fresh talent cost-effectively and…
26th January 2022
Welsh Health Hack
Join the Welsh Health Hack 2022 and secure up to £20,000 of innovation project funding. The Welsh Health Hack is returning for its 9th event, to create new innovation to…
26th January 2022
TrakCel launches OCELLOS Lite, an off-the-shelf cell orchestration platform built to support clinical cell and gene therapy supply chains
TrakCel, a leading supplier of cellular orchestration solutions for the cell and gene therapy industry, today announces it has launched its latest product in its next generation cell and gene…
26th January 2022
Health Technology Wales launches search for ideas that could transform social care
Health Technology Wales has embarked on a search for technology with the potential to transform Wales’ social sector. It has launched a social care open topic call requesting that technologies…
25th January 2022
New Vice Chair of Powys Teaching Health Board announced
Health Minister Eluned Morgan has today announced the appointment of Kirsty Williams as Vice Chair to Powys Teaching Health Board. Following her retirement from frontline politics in May 2021, she…
25th January 2022
Welsh hospices’ funding to increase
Hospices in Wales will receive an extra £2.2m as part of the Welsh Government’s end-of-life care review. Of the funding, £888k will go to the two children’s hospices – Ty…
25th January 2022
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital launch market-leading Pathpoint® platform for their patient management, referral triage and PROMs
Open Medical Ltd is delighted to announce an exciting new launch of their Pathpoint® platform at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH). This launch follows on from an…
25th January 2022
EKF To Surpass Already Upgraded Expectations
Continued strong trading is set to mean EKF Diagnostics Holdings will post full-year results ahead of already upgraded market expectations. The Penarth-based AIM-listed point-of-care, central lab devices and chemistry reagents…
24th January 2022
Maternity and neonatal champions to improve services across Wales
Maternity and neonatal champions will be appointed to every health board in Wales to improve the quality of services in a new £1.15m Welsh Government plan. They will work with…
24th January 2022
Help researchers from your sofa following a positive COVID-19 test
People in Wales at increased risk of severe COVID-19 can join hundreds of volunteers taking part in a UK-wide study into how antiviral tablets, taken at home, can help reduce the severity…
24th January 2022
TrakCel and Körber partner to provide orchestration within manufacturing of cell and gene therapies
TrakCel, a leading supplier of cellular orchestration solutions for the cell and gene therapy industry, today announces it is launching a software integration resulting from a collaborative, non-exclusive partnership with…
22nd January 2022
Support for students to complete ‘vital’ Health and Social Care courses
The Welsh Government has announced £1.8 million to support health and social care students in Wales. There has been a decline in the number of students enrolled on Health and…