Chris Whitehouse, a political consultant and expert on medical technology policy and regulation at Whitehouse Communications, and a Trustee of the Bios Centre for bioethics analyses the MedTech regulator’s new 2030 Strategy. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has set out
Chris Whitehouse, a political consultant and expert on medical technology policy and regulation at Whitehouse Communications, and a Trustee of the Bios Centre for bioethics updates readers on expansion of the services available through the NHS app. Millions of people across England can now get an al
Women struggling to secure answers for suspected endometriosis and PMOS could be given stronger evidence of their symptoms through wearable technology shaped by its founder’s own lived experience. WombWise, founded by Edinburgh Napier University graduate Emily Youngs, has been crowned winner of the
Ensera has launched the Ensera Alliance Network, bringing together leading device platform and fill-finish specialists to address the complexity of commercialising drug-device combination products. The network currently includes injector platform providers SHL Medical, Stevanato Group and Ypsomed al
A new approach to sharing diagnostic images captured by doctors at the point of care is informing time-critical decisions for some of the most unwell babies in hospital with patients in emergency and intensive care settings set to benefit next. Developed in partnership between Portsmouth Hospitals U
The NHS MyCare.scot App, Scotland’s answer to the English NHS app, has been downloaded by only 22,206 people since being launched in June, according to new figures obtained by the Mail on Sunday. The development of the Scottish version of the NHS app has cost £17 million but has been downloaded by a
New report from the Medical Technology Group calls for patient organisations to be more closely involved in commissioning decisions and for ICBs to open transparent routes for industry engagement A new report from the Medical Technology Group has called on Integrated Care Boards to draw more systema
PRECISIS, a medical technology company developing targeted neuromodulation therapies, has been selected to receive the EIB Innovation Champion Award at the TechEU Equity Summit in Luxembourg. The award recognises PRECISIS as one of Europe’s innovative companies developing new technologies and soluti
LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading global provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services, has been named a Visionary Leader in two 2026 Frost Radar reports by Frost & Sullivan: Frost Radar: Life Sciences Laboratory Information Management Systems, 2026 and Frost Radar: Laboratory Inform
MED-EL, a global leader in hearing implant technology, has announced the launch of TICI UNICO, a device that the company claims is the world’s first and only commercially available totally invisible cochlear implant. Designed for people with severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss, MED-EL says
Executives, digital, operational, and frontline staff from the newly integrated North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, will welcome both big tech and innovative health tech firms on 27 November. The trust, which integrated in April, is the latest in the NHS to host Elevate, a programme of h
Boston Scientific Corporation has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the SpaceOAR Flex Hydrogel, designed to temporarily create space between the prostate and rectum to reduce the radiation dose delivered to the rectum during prostate cancer radiation therapy. Prostate cancer is the second most commo
