UNICEF and The Philips Foundation, together with Concern Worldwide, Maker and Gearbox, have launched the Maternal and Newborn Health Innovations Project, to help save lives and improve the health of pregnant women and children in Kenya.

Technology that is alerting doctors and nurses to acutely ill patients in hospitals so that clinical staff can intervene early and prevent people in their care from coming to harm, is to be demonstrated live at London's Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology (HETT) Expo in September.

Opinion Article by Jamie Prangnell, Managing Director, Appadoodle.
Mental ill health is a huge issue for young people. It is estimated that one in five young people have a mental health problem in any given year. Further research says that around half of all mental disorders begin before the age of 15, and 75% by 24. More than half of all adults with mental health problems saw such issues manifest in childhood, but were not formally diagnosed.

Opinion Article by Tom Morton, CEO, Communicare 247.
Integrated, person-centred care is seen as a driving force for building public services around individual needs. It aims to bring care out of the hospital and into the community and home to cope with the growing burden of the 3 million people who will have over three long-term conditions by 2018.

Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, has launched Medelinked Snapshot enabling doctor and patient to use the Medelinked Partner Health Portal to be partners in health management and giving GPs as much as two minutes extra time per consultation.

NHS Dumfries and Galloway has taken a major step in integrating children’s services across health, social care and other public services. This is as a result of a pioneering project that is moving far beyond anything done before within NHS Scotland to link crucial information on patients from across disparate IT systems used by different organisations.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and Catharina Hospital (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have signed an agreement for the installation of Philips' advanced medical technologies in Catharina Hospital's new cardiovascular center, which is currently under construction and due to open its doors in mid-2016. The agreement will give Catharina Hospital access to the latest technologies for the image-guided minimally invasive treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.