Last month we spoke with Ahmed Shahrabani from Locum’s Nest to hear more about the company and its plans for the next 12 months. Can you tell me about yourself and your organisation? I am a doctor by trade and co-founder of Locum’s Nest. I was born in Oman in […]
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Challenger pharmacy startup raises £440k
A early stage start up medino, has raised £440k to challenge the pharmacy in your phone market. medino aims to take on the UK high-street retailers to make online pharmacy shopping convenient and easy. The company in December surpassed 50,000 orders and plans to use the funding to continue its growth, following […]
Sheffield Children’s live with new virtual reality app to help children having surgery
A new virtual reality app has been launched to support over 10,000 children a year who have planned surgery at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The app allows children to explore everything from the waiting area to the operating theatre to help prepare and familiarise themselves for their visit. The Little Journey […]
Care City and Healthy.io partner to target East London patients
Care City, an innovation centre for healthy ageing and regeneration has partnered with Health.io to test several solutions to facilitate better care coordination as well as prevention and management of chronic disease for residents of East London. The mission of the partnership is to focus on detecting and preventing long term […]
NHS App users now over 200,000
In the past 3 months over 100,000 people have registered for the NHS App, NHS Digital has announced. Since the launch of a new scheme, 645 App Ambassadors, NHS frontline staff have been recruited to support the campaign. In September there were 91,000 registered users of the NHS App, with […]
Southport and Ormskirk partners with Patchwork
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust is to introduce a staffing solution from Patchwork. The app is set to support the trust increase bank fill rates, reduce staffing costs and help streamline administrative processes by connecting clinicians easily to vacant bank shifts. The technology is said to reduce costs on locum agencies […]
My Online Therapy raises £4.2 million
My Online Therapy, a virtual psychology clinic has raised $4.2 million in funding from the Lighthouse Investment Group. The virtual clinical provides people with access to psychological therapies by connecting them with leading psychologists via video or web chat. The company said one in four people in the UK struggle with […]
Current Health closes £9m Series A
Current Health the remote patient monitoring platform has raised £9 million in Series A funding. The patient platform combines ICU- accurate wearable monitoring, precise early warning alerts and video visits with an aim to prevent illness. Founded in Scotland in 2015 by CEO Christopher McCann and CTO Stewart Whiting, Current Health uses […]
Locum’s Nest launches collaborative digital staff bank for 8 trusts
An online platform to provide locum doctors with access to shifts across 8 NHS Trusts has been launched, called The Digital Collaborative Bank. Using the platform from Locum’s Nest, it connects doctors to eight NHS trusts; Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS FT, Dorset County Hospital NHS FT, Salisbury NHS FT, Hampshire Hospitals NHS […]
Messaging app wins new customers
Forward Health, a communications app has announced new deals with Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. The new contracts takes the company to a footprint of 20 NHS trusts to adopt the solution, helping them move away from pagers, […]
