Speakers from Tinder Swindler and Biohacking to Microsoft and Google Working Together to Bridge the Gap
Tackling the twindemic
The NHS is coming through what has been described by many as its worst and most challenging winter on record, with the twindemic of Covid and flu.
Bed shortages, ambulance handovers and delayed discharges are all being highlighted as posing problems, along with the ongoing backlog.
Meanwhile many across the NHS are striking over pay, and concerns over conditions and patient safety, with little sign that these disputes will be solved soon.
This issue of Health Business includes features on the related topics of clean air, energy and net zero, the health problems these pose and what the NHS can do and is doing to tackle these issues.
There is a large technology section with articles on virtual health and how robotic surgery is helping patients as well as the NHS. Following the merge of NHS Digital and NHS England, we explore what NHS Digital does for the NHS.
As well as this, we investigate the cost of the NHS estate and include an interesting article on how to help patients, staff and visitors with wayfinding in hospitals.
Polly Jones, editor
Speakers from Tinder Swindler and Biohacking to Microsoft and Google Working Together to Bridge the Gap
We are actively supporting the NHS decarbonisation programme and delivering lower cost energy for the healthcare sector.
Delivering energy management to hospitals since 1938, Veolia currently provides services that cover around 43,000 UK hospital beds and support the energy requirements for around 8.1 million inpatients each year, annually saving over 120,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Adveco, the commercial hot water specialist, announces the launch of live metering of domestic ho
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have recently been awarded a £6 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in order to develop a toolkit for 3D printing. HB spoke to Ricky Wildman, Professor in Chemical Engineering at The University of Nottingham
NHS Golden Jubilee has recently performed its 1,000th robotic orthopaedic joint replacement - HB looks at the hospital’s robotics programme