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💰 UK-based Hesta Health has launched with £2 million in pre-seed funding to build a healthcare platform focused on women’s health, starting with comprehensive postnatal support. The oversubscribed round was led by Eka Ventures, with participation from Blue Lion Capital L P, Ascension Ventures, Samos Investments, and angel investors. The company was co-founded by Dr Sujitha Selvarajah and Amanda Cupples. Dr. Selvarajah is an NHS Obstetrics & Gynaecology doctor with experience in global public health and research at University of Oxford and UCL. Cupples is a former Managing Director of Northern Europe & MEA at Airbnb and CCO/COO of BABYLON HEALTHCARE SERVICES LIMITED. 🚀 💬 “We tell women to advocate for themselves — to speak up, push harder, demand more. And we absolutely should. But what if we built a healthcare system that worked for every woman in the first place? After birth, women’s health needs can increase, just as the system’s ability to meet them falls away.” Dr Sujitha Selvarajah, Co-Founder of Hesta Health 👉 Full story: https://lnkd.in/gJxYAnqa #femtech #womenshealth #womenshealthinnovation #healthtech #healthcareinnovation #maternalhealth #postpartum #uk #investment #startup #preseed #vc #venturecapital

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🚀 We've been featured in The Times! The article quotes our CEO and Co-Founder Professor Sir Peter Donnelly discussing our Health Insights test, which is available through several healthcare providers, including Bupa. Health Insights UK is the first UKCA-marked and MHRA-registered product that combines genetic and clinical factors to predict an individual's risk of common diseases. The test currently includes heart disease, type 2 diabetes and prostate or breast cancer. Peter said, “These are diseases that cause the most sickness in our populations. They use 70 or 80 per cent of healthcare budgets, and they’re responsible for most of the premature mortality that we have. That’s a huge change.” Our test is based on polygenic risk scores (PRS), which use algorithms to combine information from millions of places in an individual's DNA to give a summary of their genetic susceptibility to a disease. With this information, people can make more informed decisions about their health, helping shift healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive prevention. As Peter emphasised, this is the future of medicine.🧬 👉Read the article here to find out more: https://lnkd.in/egwtXNdV #Genomics #TheTimes #PrecisionMedicine #TechBio #prevention #healthcare 

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📣 Brainomix is featured in The Guardian today, with the headline: "Stroke centres in England given AI tool that will help 50% of patients recover." We are very pleased to see coverage of the impact that our AI-powered software is having on stroke care, with published data showing Brainomix 360 Stroke improves patient outcomes by expanding access to life-changing treatments. David Hargroves, NHS England's National Clinical Director for Stroke: "This technology is revolutionising how we help people who have had a stroke...it is already playing a key role in improving the care of thousands of people who have a stroke in England every year." We thank NHS England, Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley and other partners who have been instrumental in driving this multi-year program, harnessing AI technology at scale to improve patient care. https://lnkd.in/e6KMRA-n

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The Medical Travel Company (TMTC) has raised €3.8 million in funding to scale its cross-border medical travel platform connecting UK patients with affordable, high-quality treatments in India. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from 4CAST, a sports-focused investment group co-founded by England cricket stars Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer, alongside Indian cricketer KL Rahul. 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦 👉 https://lnkd.in/dQ_iQ33p Dhruvil Sanghvi Pratik Poddar Sam Shah Tanu Mehta Nadia Ahmed Sahil Jain Ankur Gupta Himanshu Seth Ankit Mehrotra, CFA Garima Titoria Kritvi Methi Sukhdev Singh Shivam Jha Anuj Kumar Andrew Smith Karan Godinho Pushpender Singh Snigdhaa Ghai Anamika Sikri Radhika Sarin Dr. Sukalpa Rathore Shrikant Sharma Paras Dua #Startups #HealthCare #Founders #FundingNews #VentureCapital

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🌟 Clinical leadership at our core 🌟   When Dr Conal Perrett founded 18 Week Support, he brought something unique to the world of insourcing: a clinician’s perspective.   As a Consultant Dermatologist and Dermatological Surgeon, Conal had seen first-hand the pressures facing NHS teams. He understood the clinical governance required, the operational challenges trusts were up against, and most importantly - the impact on patients waiting for care.   That insight has shaped everything we do. Clinical leadership isn’t an add-on at 18 Week Support, it’s the foundation. It guides our standards, our processes, and our partnerships with NHS trusts across the UK.   As Conal puts it: 👉 “I founded 18 Week Support because I saw the challenges NHS teams face every day. My vision was to create a clinically led organisation that could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with trusts, delivering safe, efficient, high-quality care for patients. That remains at the heart of everything we do.”   As a long-established provider of insourcing - and the first to have been clinically founded - this vision continues to guide us as we support NHS trusts to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality care for patients across the UK.   #ClinicalExcellence #Insourcing #NHS #Leadership

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Our Chief Executive Birju Bartoli was recently interviewed by Eleanor Hayward, Health Editor at The Times. The piece focused around how Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust achieves success, through prioritising the health and wellbeing of staff, as well as patients. “When we talk about looking after our own, we absolutely mean it,” explains Dr Birju Bartoli. “We all live on the patch. You have generations of the same family who work here — grandparents, mothers, sons.” It highlights how our staff follow a mantra that “patients’ time is precious”, and it’s evident from the moment someone turns up at A&E. Some 150 patients per day walk through the front door at the emergency care hospital in Cramlington. But a unique “streaming” system — a form of triaging — means only about one in three end up seated in the A&E waiting room. Patients are assessed straight away by an emergency specialist in the hospital foyer, who — wherever possible — books them in for treatment elsewhere. This might mean going straight to an operating theatre to have their appendix removed, or being booked for an x-ray for a sprained ankle at an urgent treatment centre. Others are directed back home, or to their GP or pharmacy, after being reassured nothing is seriously wrong. “We have had people at the front door with a cut finger where we say — ‘you need to go to a pharmacy and buy a plaster’,” said Dr Sameer Sasidharan, an A&E consultant, stressing that it is understandable why worried people come as “A&E is the only place that is open 24/7”. This is the first A&E department in the country to link up directly with community services, aiming to ensure people “don’t bounce around in the system” between GPs and hospitals. Dr Julian Coffey, head of urgent care at Northumbria, explained: “It is about getting patients to the right place as quickly as possible,” so they do not face delays or have unnecessary [and expensive] tests. One classic example is chest pain. “It is very common and the first worry of everyone is that it could be a heart attack, so they come to A&E,” Coffey said. “However, we send home the vast majority. Often it is anxiety or stress, or they’ve pulled a muscle. If the patient can be told really rapidly that they’re OK, that is so valuable for them.” If you are subscribed, you can read the full article on The Times website.

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Active Care Group is delighted to announce the official launch of our new clinical and therapeutic partnership with Chroma the UK’s leading provider of creative arts therapies. Chroma will be delivering a fully MDT-embedded Neurologic Music Therapy® (NMT) and MATADOC service in our specialist Active Neuro services. Read the full story about our partnership here: https://ow.ly/JsB250WQuly

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