BBC Radio Sheffield presenter Rony Robinson spoke exclusively to Nicola Heron, programme manager, and Oliver Wells, commercial director from D4D about the Sheffield support snood and their bid to win £10,000 as part of the NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes ‘Acorn Challenge’. The interview, which is broadcast to 200,000-plus listeners, outlined how the special motor neurone […]
An article written by David Coyle, project manager at NIHR Devices for Dignity HTC, has been published in KidneyLife, the magazine of the National Kidney Federation. The article reviews technology innovations with potential to benefit patients living with renal disease and improve their quality of life. Read the article here (pdf download, 184KB) Download the […]
On 5th December 2014 the SBRI Kidney Care Competition winners will gather in Sheffield tocelebrate the successful completion of phase one funding. This free exhibition event will provide anopportunity to discuss the preliminary outcomes ofthe projects in this kidney care innovation programme: Development of an innovative sensor that can detect early AKI by sensing volatile […]
Medical technology designers are to pitch a new contoured support snood helping to improve the quality of lives of motor neurone disease sufferers whose neck muscles have weakened to a panel of Dragons’ Den style judges as part of a £10,000 innovation challenge. A team of experts from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) […]
Mind The Gap – How can evidence keep pace with new technologies in mental healthcare? MindTech 2014 Mental Health Technology Symposium Date: Monday 24th November 2014 Venue: The Royal College of Physicians, London Greater use of technology in mental healthcare has the potential to increase access, personalise care, reduce costs and improve outcomes. However: Technology […]
A team of clinicians, medical engineers, designers and patient representatives were challenged to come up with new innovative concepts to solve patients’ needs in an eight-hour health design hack. Members of the nationally acclaimed Devices for Dignity Healthcare Technology Co-operative set two challenges at the University of Sheffield’s fifth annual Business Innovation Network conference. These […]
The National Institute for Health Research Devices for Dignity Healthcare Technology Co-operative (D4D) has achieved much in its first five years. This booklet is a celebration of our work and successes, focussing on real examples of how we have collaboratively developed new technologies and treatments, and helped pave the way for the HTCs of today […]
The University of Sheffield will be hosting the 5th international BIN@ conference at the Showroom Workstation in Sheffield on November 10th, 11th and 12th 2014. Devices for Dignity (D4D) will participate as one of the partners involved in the organisation of the event. BIN@ is an informal international network of partners from across industry, academia, […]
Devices for Dignity is attending the 2014 European MedTech Forum. The largest health and medical technology industry conference in Europe, this year the Forum is revolving around the theme of “More needs. Higher expectations. Smaller budgets. Can the European MedTech Industry deliver?“. Organised by MedTech Europe’s alliance members Eucomed and EDMA, the seventh edition of […]
NIHR Devices for Dignity HTC (D4D), in collaboration with the Bladder and Bowel Foundation, has produced a new video to motivate women and teenage girls to look after their pelvic health. “We wanted to create a video that explains the importance of the pelvic floor muscle exercises,” said Nicola Heron, programme manager at D4D. “Most […]
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