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Evidence given in Parliament on lessons learned from the pandemic HighlightsHighlights Archive

Evidence given in Parliament on lessons learned from the pandemic

In the latest Health and Social Care Committee hearing, Professor Sir John Bell and Professor Dame Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of UKHSA, provided their thoughts on how the UK is preparing for future pandemics and what lessons have been learnt over the last four years. In the first session, Professor Bell outlined his fears that, should a more deadly pandemic…
Ben Kemp
March 6, 2024
Chancellor pledges millions to life sciences industry in pre-Budget announcement HighlightsHighlights Archive

Chancellor pledges millions to life sciences industry in pre-Budget announcement

Two days before the Budget, the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, announced a £92 million joint government and industry investment to expand facilities to manufacture life-saving medicines and diagnostics products. This was part of an overall £360 million package to boost British manufacturing and R&D. It is expected that this good news for the sector has been trailed so as not to…
Ben Kemp
March 6, 2024
Media Monitoring: 28 February – 4 March HighlightsHighlights Archive

Media Monitoring: 28 February – 4 March

  BIVDA member Digostics GDM remote test screening trial suggests positive results Digital clinical diagnostics and diabetes home testing provider and BIVDA member Digostics has revealed the results from its gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) remote screening collaboration with University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) The partnership saw expectant mothers in Hampshire become the first globally to access the oral…
Dawn
February 28, 2024
MHRA Chief Executive Dame June Raine to step down later this year HighlightsHighlights Archive

MHRA Chief Executive Dame June Raine to step down later this year

Dame June Raine, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has today announced that she will be stepping down in the Autumn following five years in the role. She took up the post in August 2019, following a career in medicines regulation. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will shortly begin recruitment for a…
Dawn
February 28, 2024
Simple sponge-on-a-string test replaces endoscopy for thousands of patients HighlightsHighlights Archive

Simple sponge-on-a-string test replaces endoscopy for thousands of patients

An innovative test trialled by the NHS to help diagnose a condition which can lead to oesophageal cancer has reduced the need for invasive endoscopy in thousands of low-risk patients. The NHS pilot has tested over 8,500 patients with the capsule sponge test. Evaluation of a cohort of patients showed almost eight out of 10 patients, who completed a test…
Dawn
February 28, 2024
Media Monitoring: 15 – 21 February HighlightsHighlights Archive

Media Monitoring: 15 – 21 February

Understanding the lived-experience and support-needs of people living with antimicrobial resistance in the UK through interpretative phenomenological analysis An important examination of the effects of AMR on patients In the UK nearly 54,000 infections were caused by serious resistant bacteria in 2022 Emerging evidence indicates that patients lack an understanding of what AMR is, yet they also report significant psychological…
Ben Kemp
February 21, 2024
New project to ‘unlock prevention’ within ICSs HighlightsHighlights Archive

New project to ‘unlock prevention’ within ICSs

The NHS Confederation, University of Stirling, University of Southampton and Newton have launched a research project to understand the barriers to unlocking at-scale preventative health and care within integrated care systems (ICSs). The research will map prevention work being undertaken at system, place and neighbourhood levels and the barriers that exist to collaborative prevention. The research team, professors Paul Cairney…
Ben Kemp
February 21, 2024
DNA analysis could explain increased risk of prostate cancer in Black men HighlightsHighlights Archive

DNA analysis could explain increased risk of prostate cancer in Black men

Scientists have discovered genetic differences which explain why Black men are more prone to prostate cancer compared to other ethnicities, leading to hopes that a test can be developed which identifies those at elevated risk. Prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among men in Britain, accounting for approximately 52,300 cases and 12,000 fatalities annually in the UK.…
Ben Kemp
February 21, 2024
Dementia biomarkers identified as hopes rise for early blood test HighlightsHighlights Archive

Dementia biomarkers identified as hopes rise for early blood test

The discovery of new biomarkers have given researchers hope that a blood test can be developed which can detect dementia in patients up to ten years earlier than a formal diagnosis. The developments were made following analysis of samples from the 50,000 healthy individuals who are participating in the UK Biobank project. Examination of the blood revealed patterns of four…
Dawn
February 14, 2024
Media Monitoring: 8 – 14 February HighlightsHighlights Archive

Media Monitoring: 8 – 14 February

Simple sponge test can prevent cancer that ‘hides in plain sight’ An innovative test which can prevent cancer deaths needs to be made more widely available, a cancer charity has warned. The capsule sponge test collects cells from the oesophagus and can detect abnormalities which make a person more likely to develop oesophageal cancer. If oesophageal cancer is detected early…
Ben Kemp
February 14, 2024