Case Studies

Cardiff company secures international interest for innovative PPE waste solution

As one of five successful Digital Solutions Fund (DSF) bids, and to provide support to NHS staff across Wales, DNA Definitive rapidly piloted a digital learning solution for trauma response management.

The Digital Solutions Fund (DSF) is a Welsh Government-funded programme coordinated by the Digital Health Ecosystem Wales (DHEW) to support the COVID-19 response. Connect Health was the first project to run, supporting the digital transformation of physiotherapy.

A South Wales company has developed an innovative way to recycle single use personal protective equipment (PPE) in a bid to tackle the mountain of waste being produced as a result of the pandemic.

Production of a new range of safety eyewear for one of the world's leading names in the industry, Bollé, has begun at a site in Wales.

Following a diagnosis of colorectal cancer, 63% of patients will undergo a colorectal resection with most patients having an anastomosis.

This project builds on a collaboration to develop naturally-derived virucidal actives by trying to assess the efficacy of coating formulations in rendering pandemic viruses immobile and destroying them on contact with a coated surface.

Osteoarthritis affects nearly 9 million people in the UK; the knee being a commonly affected joint. This project proposes to address this problem, by introducing a bespoke surgical planning tool.

Venous thromboembolic diseases (VTE) are caused by a thrombus (blood clot) occurring in a vein. Patients are assessed for their VTE risk when they enter a hospital.

A Meeting of Creative Minds: How Partnership is Driving VR Adoption in Healthcare

Accelerate is working to understand the benefits of clear face masks in communication between health care staff and patients

Accelerate partners, ATiC, are working with The Mullany Fund to educate students about user experience research in the life sciences sector.

Accelerate Case study: Adwell Foods Ltd Health Promoting Tea

Life Sciences Hub Wales has supported Hardshell, a global leader in the production of protective defensive equipment such as body armour and demining suits, to secure product certifications that will allow it to become the first in the UK to produce medical-grade face masks for use by the NHS.

During September 2018, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board (CAV UHB) set up Project Drawdown to engage and educate anaesthetic staff about the climate impact of the anaesthetic gases they use.

Rescape Innovation Ltd are pioneering the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in healthcare to reduce pain, anxiety and improve the patient journey

A Welsh company has nearly doubled its permanent workforce to 127 staff in just four months after switching part of its operations to create personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Welsh Government and Life Sciences Hub Wales are supporting plans to build a 200 strong team of specialists at Wales’ soon to be launched Lighthouse Lab, which is set to create additional capacity for the UK’s Covid-19 testing strategy.

Accelerate programme is helping to develop high-tech dementia aid

Swansea University’s Healthcare Technology Centre has played a key role in developing an award-winning communication aid for frontline health staff forced to wear face masks during the pandemic.

As the Covid-19 pandemic sparked unprecedented global demand and competition for personal protective equipment (PPE), a Denbighshire-based protective equipment specialist has leveraged its international supply chains to ensure Wales has access to sources of essential equipment. 

Digital Health Ecosystem Wales (DHEW), a collaboration between NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) and Life Sciences Hub Wales, has collaborated with Welsh health technology startup Concentric Health on a project to develop and understand the potential for APIs within the healthcare system in Wales. 

An advanced laboratory dedicated to leading Wales’ national Covid-19 testing has been established in Cardiff, thanks to collaboration between Public Health Wales and one of the world’s leading diagnostics companies.

Until now, ventilator designs could either be one or the other, but not both.

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (Ortho), a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, has announced that production of their Covid-19 antibody tests is underway at its state-of-the-art facility in Pencoed, near Bridgend in South Wales.

A Caerphilly company has switched up production at its factory to create millions of sustainable face shields that will be used worldwide by frontline staff as well to support employees returning to the workplace.

Businesses from across Wales have been adapting and innovating at an unprecedented scale and pace to combat the spread of Covid-19 and help treat those affected by the virus.

A Welsh manufacturer that can trace its life-saving work to the trenches of the Crimean war is now working to ensure that NHS Wales has the supplies it needs in the battle against Coronavirus.

Welsh gin distilleries have produced and given away more than 200,000 bottles of desperately needed hand sanitiser to frontline services, essential workers and community care providers since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Digital Health Ecosystem Wales (DHEW) and Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Cymru join forces to bring you a brand-new website helping support and accelerate innovation in digital health technology in Wales.

Life Sciences Hub Wales is calling on companies and innovators from across the country to join the fight against coronavirus.

Patients in Wales could soon see virtual reality become an everyday part of their medical treatment plans, thanks to ground-breaking research and development by a Welsh tech company.

Global tech giant Fujifilm has given Welsh healthcare professionals an exclusive first look at its latest medical innovation ahead of the product’s global clinical launch.

Community Pharmacy Patient Inhaler Review Service Joint Working Project

The Welsh Health Hack returned for the fourth time this January, in Anglesey north Wales. The event, hosted by event partners M-SParc, was attended by over 100 people across industry, academia and the NHS.

This two-day event, which was attended by over 100 delegates, including representatives from the life sciences industry from across the UK and clinicians from across NHS Wales.

On Friday 4 October, industry colleagues from across the UK attended an event in Cardiff hosted by the Cancer Implementation Group and Life Sciences Hub Wales.

A pioneering programme that speeds up the translation of ideas into new products and services to improve health and care, is now open for applications.

Ian Bond who is a COPD patient and an advocate of ‘self management’, has developed a digital platform with his colleague Dave Taylor that has enabled him to monitor his own condition and obtain evidence-led care from his GP and specialists.

Gene Therapy, known as Advanced Therapies, involves the use of live cells as treatments that lessen or cure health conditions