Healthcare news in the UK | Page 9

An overview of news, trends and research in the Healthcare industry in the UK:

NHS spends 640 million on management consultants The NHS spent £640 million on private sector management consultants in 2014, up from £313 million in 2010.
23 December 2014
Cambridge Consultants advance sport skills training Product design firm Cambridge Consultants has designed a novel wearable technology, called Xelflex, that acts as a sensor in tight-fitting garments. These sensors provide users with guidance and feedback on their movemen
17 December 2014
Raymond James helps US hospital with turnaround Jackson County has appointed US financial planning consultancy Raymond James to investigate its ailing county-owned Singing River Health System and turn it into a sound, operational hospital system. When Jackson Country’s Ocean S
12 December 2014
WEF and BCG develop healthcare strategy for Nigeria The Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum agreed to develop a healthcare strategy for Nigeria. The partners will set up a health system project, piloted in Ogun, Lagos and Bayelsa states, through which they will strategize on the fin
12 December 2014
Aon Hewitt: Millennials care less about healthcare The Millennials, or Generation Y, care less about healthcare and preventive health than Generation X and the Baby Boomers, concludes an analysis by Aon Hewitt. The Millennials not only place less importance on preventive care, they are also the lea
05 December 2014
CBRE partner of largest air quality project of the world Consulting firm CBRE has signed a partnership to launch the world's largest air quality monitoring network in London, the AirSensa project.
26 November 2014
McKinsey: Obesity costs global society 2.0 trillion a year Obesity is one of the three top social burdens generated by humanity’s contemporary social lifestyle.
24 November 2014
Cambridge Consultants provides new surgical experience Cambridge Consultants has developed a new surgical tool with which small implants can be deployed in the nervous system, while avoiding nerves and blood vessels. The Chimaera combines preoperative and intraoperative data to identify a safe operativ
19 November 2014
Oliver Wyman: Technology will transform Healthcare The ‘tech attack’ of the healthcare market will change it into a consumer-driven market, concludes Oliver Wyman in a new report. This new market will be driven by three movements; the ‘quantified self’, ‘transparent co
11 November 2014
Booz Allen buys health analytics start-up Epidemico Global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has acquired Epidemico, a health analytics start-up company, to boost its analytic capabilities in order to support its clients’ needs. Financial details of the acquisition have not been d
31 October 2014
Accenture develops connected physician solution Accenture has, in collaboration with Salesforce.com, developed a mobile healthcare solution aimed at improving patient interactions and outcomes. To achieve this goal, the solution will enable physicians to access needed information anywhere and st
28 October 2014
Strategy&: US consumers the new bosses in healthcare There is a new boss in healthcare industry and that is the consumer, this states consulting firm Strategy& in its newly released report into the preferences of US healthcare consumers. The report shows that these consumers are not happy with th
28 October 2014
Booz Allen Hamilton buys Healthcare unit of Genova Global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has acquired the health care division of Genova Technologies, a US-based IT consultancy. Roughly 40 employees, based in Baltimore, will join Booz Allen’s
22 October 2014
Cambridge Consultants designs smart injection pen Cambridge Consultants has designed a smart injection pen that will help diabetes patients to better manage their insulin delivery and hence their disease, by capturing the exact moment and dose of the insulin at the moment of injection. The so-call
10 October 2014
Deloitte: Virtual doctor visits reach inflection point Rising healthcare costs and improved technology could cause an inflection point in the global adoption of eVisits. Research by Deloitte shows that almost one in six doctor visits will be virtual this year. These eVisits will not only sav
22 August 2014
Philips and Accenture innovation helps ALS patients Accenture and Philips have developed a prototype application that allows ALS patients to control their devices through mind control and by using voice and eye commands.
07 August 2014
Dutch consulting firms support Ghana water project A Dutch consortium of two consulting firms and a non-governmental health organisation has been granted the task to develop a long-term water, sanitation and hygiene plan for the Ghana-Netherlands WASH Programme in Ghana. p cla
07 August 2014
Elaine Bennett partner at healthcare branch of Atos Consulting In the United Kingdom, Atos Consulting appointed Elaine Bennett as its partner. She is coming from branch partner Finnamore Consulting.
07 November 2013
BCG: Hospitals earn too much on medical mistakes It is beneficial for U.S. hospitals when doctors make mistakes. Because they earn more on patients who need additional treatments to undo medical mistakes. This remarkable finding comes from a study by Boston Co
07 May 2013
Booz: Acquired hospitals book poorer financial results In most cases hospitals that have been acquired book poorer financial results than their peers. At least, that is the case in the USA according to Booz & Company. Booz & Company based their findigns on an analy
26 March 2013
Ecorys helps Indian state with improving healthcare system The World Bank has hired Ecorys to assist with the improvement of the healthcare systems of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
02 October 2012
Accenture donates 2.5m to African non-profit care foundation Accenture has over the past years donated more than €2.5 million to the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), a nonprofit organization that aims at improving health care in Africa. The donation consists of
14 September 2012
NHS spends £10 million on 175 consulting firms The English public healthcare organization, the National Health Service (NHS), has spent more than £10 million over the past financial year on external consultants. Noteworthy is that as many as 175 different consulting firms
18 November 2011

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