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
Leica Biosystems has announced the acquisition of StatLab Medical Products, a leading provider of pre-analytical consumables and equipment, from Linden Capital Partners and Audax Private Equity. Gustavo Perez-Fernandez, Group Executive Danaher‘s Diagnostics Business, and President, Leica Biosystems
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 shares the latest list of medical devices being assessed for inclusion in the “Core List” of products available to the NHS in E
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 highlights a case of an unscrupulous director who risked the health of vulnerable babies in a major MedTech fraud case. The Med
An international coalition of vascular access surgeons, nephrologists, researchers and industry partners has launched the Fight Fibrin Sheath (FFS) campaign, a clinician-led action group working collaboratively to advance research, education and innovation relating to fibrin sheath formation, and to
ZEISS Medical Technology has announced the expansion of its retinal imaging portfolio with the ZEISS ALTA DUO fully automated, compact, multimodal imaging solution. The new device combines OCT and fundus photography within a single imaging system. Andreas Völker, Head of the Ophthalmology Strategic
