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Life Sciences Hub Wales and Digital Health and Care Wales are joining forces to drive healthcare advancements in Wales through digital innovation.

The QuicDNA project team are seeking new collaboration opportunities to expand ctDNA testing across Wales.

The NHS Wales Awards celebrate quality improvement work that has transformed the experience and outcomes for people in Wales and showcases the talented health and care staff working together to improve services and patient care across Wales.

We’re proud to have teamed up with The New Scientist and healthawareness.co.uk as part of their national ‘Innovations in Cancer Care’ campaign. Our CEO, Cari-Anne Quinn has penned a column featured in the campaign, focusing on cancer care in Wales, its advancements, and the ambition to improve survival rates across the nation.

We’re delighted to extend our congratulations to Eluned Morgan on her appointment as the first female First Minister of Wales and the first female leader of Welsh Labour.

Inspiring Innovation is our round-up of news from a thriving innovation landscape collated by our Sector Intelligence team, now with a focus on news and updates relating to our priority area, cancer. Fuelling our ambitions to elevate Wales as a place of choice for health and social care innovation and investment. 

Through the Keith James Grants, a total of £1 million is available to support NHS Wales professionals to access learning and development opportunities locally, nationally, and internationally.

The awards – which are Wales’ only dedicated cancer awards - aim to celebrate and spotlight individuals and teams across NHS Wales and its partners

Inspiring Innovation is our round-up of news from a thriving innovation landscape collated by our Sector Intelligence team, now with a focus on news and updates relating to our priority area, cancer. Fuelling our ambitions to elevate Wales as a place of choice for health and social care innovation and investment. 

GatewayC is a free training programme in early cancer diagnosis.

We’re thrilled to have partnered with The Guardian and healthawareness.co.uk as part of the national ‘supporting the NHS’ campaign. Showcasing how AI is revolutionising healthcare in Wales.

In September 2022, Craig Maxwell was diagnosed with incurable (stage 4) genetic lung cancer. Undeterred by the diagnosis, Craig embarked on a series of fundraising challenges that not only surpassed the initial target of £300,000, raising a total of £1,300,000 to support the Velindre Cancer Charity and the QuicDNA (cancer genomics) project. 

Health Technology Wales announce that millions have been invested in eight innovative companies behind lifesaving new medical technology. These innovative devices could destroy liver cancer tumours, detect Alzheimer’s, and quickly spot those at risk of stroke. Funding will be used to fully assess how effective this cutting-edge tech can be, and to support its potential roll out for patients across the UK.

The Moondance Cancer Awards are back and open for nominations! 

NHS England is set to open a new round of funding for innovation in the early detection and diagnosis of cancer. The ‘Innovation Open Call 3’ is designed to facilitate the integration of innovative solutions into frontline healthcare settings, alongside addressing key implementation evidence gaps.

New guidance has been published recommending a form of radiotherapy to treat people with early-stage rectal cancer in Wales.

It was a successful night for QuicDNA at MediWales Innovation Awards, where the programme won the ‘NHS Wales working with Industry’ category.

This month, we’ve seen life science companies shine at the Wales STEM Awards, collaborations formed to develop advanced medical technologies, and a

The programme is in collaboration with the Wales Cancer Network, with the Health Board seeing its first patients for scans from 27 September. 

CMR Surgical’s Versius Clinical Insights will capture data from surgical procedures to provide a detailed evaluation of a surgeon’s performance. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are the first healthcare organisations in the world to have access to this new cutting-edge tool. 

The NIHR i4i Programme and Office for Life Sciences (OLS) announce new funding call to support innovation in early detection and diagnosis of cancer, targeted treatments and approaches to tackle health inequalities.

Inspiring Innovation is our monthly roundup of news from Wales’ thriving innovation landscape collated by our Sector Intelligence Team and fuels our ambitions to elevate Wales as a place of choice for health and social care innovation and investment.

Inspiring Innovation is our monthly roundup of news from Wales’ thriving innovation landscape collated by our Sector Intelligence Team and fuels our ambitions to elevate Wales as a place of choice for health and social care innovation and investment.

Are you attending NHS ConfedExpo? Our team is heading to Manchester for the two-day event and will be hosting an informative panel session exploring the story so far of the All-Wales National Robotics-Assisted Surgery Programme. 

An innovative liquid biopsy blood test to improve lung cancer treatment could help more people in Wales.

This week we welcome the ambition laid out by Welsh Government as they launch the new Innovation Strategy for Wales. This puts creating a strong, consistent and connected culture of innovation at the forefront of helping to enrich our health and wellbeing, economy and our environment.

February has been an exciting time for innovation in Wales, with funding opportunities being granted that have the potential to develop technology that seeks to transform healthcare on a local and national scale.

Health Technology Wales have launched an open topic call to find non-medicine health and care technologies that could improve the lives of people living with cancer in Wales.

The innovation team at Velindre Cancer Centre has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to support patients, their loved ones, and members of the public.

Welcome to Inspiring Innovation, our monthly feature where we share the latest innovation stories, developments, and achievements in Wales.

Robotic surgery could become as common as CT and MRI scanners if the NHS and the Government invest in a national programme, according to leading NHS surgeons and hospital bosses.

Thousands more people in Wales will benefit from faster diagnosis of cancers and rare disease thanks to a new plan to increase the use of gene testing.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has today launched the latest report from its Cyswllt RCP Connect series of visits to Welsh hospitals.

The first robotic hysterectomy in Wales using the Versius robot has taken place at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. This is thanks to the implementation of the All-Wales Robotic Assisted Surgery Programme, which has been developed in partnership with Life Sciences Hub Wales, health boards across Wales and the Moondance Cancer Initiative.

Life Sciences Hub Wales has published its Annual Report, which highlights how it is accelerating the development and adoption of innovative solutions to improve health and economic wellbeing outcomes in Wales.

State-of-the-art surgical robots are now helping to treat colorectal and gynaecological cancer patients in Wales as part of the new National Robotic Assisted Surgery Programme.

Life Sciences Hub Wales is delighted to announce nine successful submissions geared towards addressing major precision medicine priorities in Wales. 

A SIMPLE blood test that detects bowel cancer earlier - and improves the chances of survival for thousands of patients is one step closer to being available on the NHS, after showing excellent results in a primary care trial.

CMR Surgical (CMR) – a global surgical robotics business –has announced that it has been awarded a significant multi-year contract by NHS Wales for implementation of the Versius® Surgical Robotic System in a National Robotics Assisted Surgery Programme.

In our latest film to showcase the innovations made possible by the Accelerate programme, we explore a collaboration between Welsh innovators, Copner Biotech, and the Accelerate Healthcare Technology Centre (HTC) that could revolutionise cell culture via computer modelled 3D scaffolding designs.

A national robotic-assisted surgery programme allowing surgeons to perform complex procedures with more precision and control is being introduced in Wales, the Health Minister has announced.