The changing demands on health and care services are creating different development needs among staff in the NHS/ HEI’s/ Industry and Private Practice. There is a true need to equip and encourage healthcare staff to deliver continuous improvement in local health and care systems and gain pride and joy from their work, something the RHS … Read More
As we navigate our way through the new world of ICS’s in the NHS do we truly know our ICP from our PBP’s. This article from the King’s Fund will support you to navigate through the new structure and identify the partnerships of relevance.
Our valued support service of developing, hosting and facilitating Virtual Advisory Boards has gone on-line. Following on from the success of supporting hundreds of national and international ad boards; focus groups; forums and discussion panels in the “real world” we extended our on-line facilitation offering in 2021. We were able to adapt to the challenge … Read More
The move towards integrated care has been the defining policy in health and care over the past decade and will continue to gather pace with the development of integrated care systems (ICSs). The aim of integrated care is to improve people’s outcomes and experiences of care by bringing services together around people and communities. This means … Read More
We all spend a lot of time online don’t we? Whether shopping, working, on video calls or on social media, we are using our smartphones, laptops and connected devices more and more. That all means the creation and sharing of our data. The same goes for our healthcare and medical device businesses and organisations, not … Read More
We are proud to be associated with the Royal College of Podiatry’s (RCPod’s) 2021 Leadership Programme, Inspiring the future leaders in podiatry. This is a two-day course with additional evening seminars held over three months. Read here, where Joanne Casey, RCPod Podiatry Project Officer, who leads leads the programme, outlines how the first day went.
It is key for medical device manufacturers to understand how the new MDR affects the conduct of clinical investigations, the collection and collation of efficacy and effectiveness data, and clinical reporting. The impact on organisations and stakeholders alike is immense as the new regulations are reshaping the wound care research arena. See this article as … Read More
A new England-wide multi-professional framework has been published that sets out the knowledge and skills needed by all levels of the health and social care workforce to deliver high quality, consistent wound care across all settings, improving healing rates and patient outcomes. See this link for the Skills For Health announcement
Integrated care systems (ICSs) are partnerships that bring together providers and commissioners of NHS services across a geographical area with local authorities and other local partners to collectively plan health and care services to meet the needs of their population. The central aim of ICSs is to integrate care across different organisations and settings, joining … Read More
Will the Regulation changes affect how clinical investigations and product evaluations are conducted? Staying abreast of regulation changes Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council (MDR) will come into effect in May 2021. The new Regulation will introduce major changes to how medical device manufacturers obtain CE Marking and … Read More
