New European initiative seeks to accelerate timely Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and treatment
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The ACCESS-AD consortium, which is co-led by King’s College London, Amsterdam UMC, Siemens Healthineers and Gates Ventures, and funded by the European Commission’s Innovative Health Initiative, has announced the launch of a transformative European initiative which has an initial budget of over €38 million over 5 years to accelerate the implementation of scientific innovations for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) management, of which King’s College London has been awarded €2.8m.
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The prevalence of AD is rising sharply and is expected to exceed 19 million people in Europe by 2050.
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Current rates are already placing a significant strain on healthcare systems, leading to delays in delivering timely diagnostic testing, brain imaging and structured clinical follow-up, raising the risk of delayed treatment and poorer outcomes.
Healthcare innovator appointed to Health Data Research Service
- Dr Melanie Ivarsson appointed as CEO of HDRS to accelerate medical breakthroughs
- Service aims to slash red tape to improve access to health data for approved researchers
- HDRS could set the UK on a path to cure diseases like cancer, dementia and arthritis quicker
Waiting lists cut 3 times faster in highest joblessness areas
- Specialist NHS teams helped cut waiting lists 3 times faster than the national average, a new report has revealed.
- Thousands of patients across England benefitted from the Further Faster 20 (FF20) programme, which helped slash waiting times and turbocharge activity, and is getting people back to work.
- Crack teams of experts were sent to 20 hospital trusts across England with the highest levels of economic inactivity, with the aim of cutting the waiting list and boosting growth.
Century-old tumours could reveal why more young people are getting bowel cancer
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Bowel cancer samples that have been stored for up to a century will be analysed to try to solve the mysterious rise of the disease in young people.
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Despite the majority of bowel cancers still being found in older adults, the rise in younger patients has been seen around the world.
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This includes in the UK where bowel cancer rates have increased by 75% in the under-24s since the early 1990s – but scientists are unclear why.
New mobile diagnostics car will help cut hospital waiting times, medics say
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A new service that will enable patients in the Glasgow area to have X-rays and ultrasounds done at home will cut NHS waiting times and make vital tests more accessible, medics have said.
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is seeing the launch of a new community diagnostic vehicle, in a move designed to reduce the number of hospital admissions in the area.
- The car will carry state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment, including portable X-ray, and – for the first time in the UK – equipment to conduct blood tests, urine tests and ultrasounds.
