COVID-19: How We Can Help >
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In the spring of 2020, demand for Covid-19 testing capacity accelerated at extraordinary speed. So speed was equally important in our response. We were conscious that people’s health was reliant on the ability to access timely and accurate testing, so we diverted our focus to supporting the delivery of the ‘Test and Trace’ system.…
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Could a new way of working help the UK healthcare system to defy expectations and restore the positive patient outcomes lost during the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s the question everyone in the industry must consider.…
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The upcoming rollout of community diagnostic hubs (CDHs) is set to revolutionise diagnostic provision in the NHS – providing a much-needed boost to capacity and an opportunity to transform service delivery to take a more patient-centric approach.…
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Whilst an immediate return to pre-pandemic levels is unrealistic – not least due to the necessary additional hygiene measures which must now be put in place – cross-organisational and multi-Trust collaboration could provide the key to safely resuming vital elective procedures. Keith Austin, CEO and founder of EMS Healthcare, considers the cancer diagnosis system in particular, looking at how the NHS can maximise private and public support to help get back on its feet.…
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With the NHS entering the second phase of its COVID-19 response, it faces a new challenge: patient concerns around infection risk possibly preventing them from attending outpatient services. How can NHS Trusts communicate confidence in its infection prevention measures as many non-COVID-19 treatments and procedures – previously halted – resume? Keith Austin, CEO of EMS Healthcare, discusses how Trusts can address these concerns and plan proactively to ensure outpatient services run smoothly once resumed.…
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First-of-its-kind mobile medical unit safeguards over £5m* for NHS trusts. In 2018, innovative mobile medical unit provider EMS Healthcare revolutionised the landscape of the endoscopy market with the launch of Quest+ Decontamination – the UK’s first mobile endoscope decontamination unit. To date, the unit has helped NHS trusts safeguard over £5million* through responding directly to the challenges they are facing.…
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Each year, almost 42,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer, making it the fourth most common cancer in the UK. Around 16,000 lives are lost to the disease each year, although this number has been falling since the 1970s thanks to earlier diagnosis and improved treatment. Just over a year ago, a petition signed by over half a million of us to lower bowel screenings from 60 to 50 was successfully implemented...…
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The much-anticipated NHS Long Term Plan was launched at the start of this year, with many wondering how Mrs May’s £20.5 billion cash injection is set to be spent across the next 5 years. Whilst a long overdue boost to our mental health services dominated headlines, there was relatively little attention given to perhaps the most innovative step – a commitment to deploying more mobile lung CT scanners directly into community hubs.…
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In May, we launched the UK’s first fleet of mobile decontamination units for endoscope reprocessing. In partnership with Cantel (UK) Limited, we developed Quest+ Decontamination, a single trailer mobile solution, which enables NHS Trusts to maintain reprocessing capacity without disruption during disaster recovery, departmental refurbishment or when in-house decontamination departments are running at full capacity.…
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Recently we exhibited at the Association of Renal Technologists (ART) national conference in Grantham.…
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