Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

BRUKINSA® Receives Positive Recommendation from NICE in U.K. for Adult Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

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Friday, October 20, 2023

“This follows the previous approval of BRUKINSA by NICE in July 2022 as the only cost-effective treatment for patients with Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.

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  • “This follows the previous approval of BRUKINSA by NICE in July 2022 as the only cost-effective treatment for patients with Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.
  • “This decision represents a significant milestone for patients in England and Wales with CLL, the most common form of leukemia in adults,” said Nick York, Patient Advocacy Healthcare Liaison Officer, U.K. Leukemia Care.
  • “Despite continued treatment advances, many patients with CLL will relapse and need additional treatment options.
  • Furthermore, a proportion of patients have a disease which is refractory to initial treatment.”
    BRUKINSA is the third BTKi for CLL to be recommended by NICE for routine commissioning.

Flatiron Health Announces New Partnership in the UK

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Flatiron helps to fill this gap by curating high-quality, real-world evidence (RWE) derived from aggregated, de-identified patient information captured during routine care.

Key Points: 
  • Flatiron helps to fill this gap by curating high-quality, real-world evidence (RWE) derived from aggregated, de-identified patient information captured during routine care.
  • The UK announcement comes at a time of significant international expansion for Flatiron.
  • Flatiron International subsidiaries in Japan, Germany, and the UK are partnering with hospitals and health networks in RWD collaborations through Flatiron's local teams and infrastructure, ensuring that strict legal and regulatory requirements are met in all locations.
  • “Each Flatiron International partnership is designed to help local healthcare providers and partners generate and utilize high-quality RWD to advance oncology research and care,” said Nathan Hubbard, Senior Vice President, Flatiron’s Head of Corporate Development and Flatiron International.

United Kingdom National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Publishes Interventional Procedure Guidance (IPG) for ReActiv8® Restorative Neurostimulation™

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Friday, September 23, 2022

ReActiv8 is currently the only technology offering restorative neurostimulation to the NHS for refractory mechanical chronic low back pain (CLBP).

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  • ReActiv8 is currently the only technology offering restorative neurostimulation to the NHS for refractory mechanical chronic low back pain (CLBP).
  • This new guidance will enable patients to have greater access to the therapy when previous treatment options have not proven successful.
  • This new guidance will allow more patients to gain access to ReActiv8 within the U.K. and further afield.
  • Mainstay Medical is a medical device company focused on commercializing its innovative implantable Restorative Neurostimulation system, ReActiv8, for people with disabling mechanical CLBP.

Sectra and NPIC collaboration expansion to help accelerate digital pathology across the UK

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Thursday, March 3, 2022

This opens opportunities for NHS trusts throughout the UK to digitize pathology and improve patient diagnoses.

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  • This opens opportunities for NHS trusts throughout the UK to digitize pathology and improve patient diagnoses.
  • The expansion now taking place will help laboratories in different parts of the UK digitize their pathology services.
  • In addition, it will allow NPIC to create two new specialist digital pathology networks in paediatrics and sarcoma tissue cancers.
  • Professor Darren Treanor, NPIC's director, and a practising pathologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "Digital pathology is now a national priority.

Sectra and NPIC collaboration expansion to help accelerate digital pathology across the UK

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Thursday, March 3, 2022

This opens opportunities for NHS trusts throughout the UK to digitize pathology and improve patient diagnoses.

Key Points: 
  • This opens opportunities for NHS trusts throughout the UK to digitize pathology and improve patient diagnoses.
  • The expansion now taking place will help laboratories in different parts of the UK digitize their pathology services.
  • In addition, it will allow NPIC to create two new specialist digital pathology networks in paediatrics and sarcoma tissue cancers.
  • Professor Darren Treanor, NPIC's director, and a practising pathologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "Digital pathology is now a national priority.

Leica Biosystems Unveils its Aperio GT 450 DX Digital Pathology Scanner and Delivers Excellence to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

NUSSLOCH, Germany, Aug. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Leica Biosystems, a global leader in pathology workflow solutions, announced the European launch of its Aperio GT 450 DX digital pathology scanner .

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  • NUSSLOCH, Germany, Aug. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Leica Biosystems, a global leader in pathology workflow solutions, announced the European launch of its Aperio GT 450 DX digital pathology scanner .
  • This next generation imaging system was unveiled at the highly successful Leica Biosystems Digital Pathology Virtual Summit and is already installed at the Centre of Excellence at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust NHS, UK.
  • The featured attraction: the Aperio GT 450 DX Scanner.
  • Dr. Darren Treanor, Consultant Pathologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK and Director of Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC), was a presenter at the summit, discussing Digital Pathology and Artificial Intelligencein the NHS, and also spearheads digital pathology in NPIC, Leeds, who are the recipient of the first Aperio GT 450 DX Scanner in Europe.

Philips and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to set new standards for specialist integrated cardiac care

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

The service improvement program will support the co-design of new patient pathways and workflows, all with the aim of delivering the best care experience for patients.

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  • The service improvement program will support the co-design of new patient pathways and workflows, all with the aim of delivering the best care experience for patients.
  • The Cardiology team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals are very proud of the quality of cardiac care we are able to deliver for our patients, said Dr Chris Pepper, Clinical Director for Cardiology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
  • Its with this spirit that we look forward to working side-by-side with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to improve the regions cardiac health.
  • With both local and international objectives, Leeds has decided to work in partnership with Philips on a long-term basis to ensure these aspirations are met.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Selects Alfresco to Modernise and Manage 3+ Million Patient Records

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Alfresco Software , an open source content, process and governance management software company, has announced that one of Europes largest teaching hospitals, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust , chose the Alfresco Digital Business Platform to create an innovative enterprise content management solution to modernise its 3+ million patient records.

Key Points: 
  • Alfresco Software , an open source content, process and governance management software company, has announced that one of Europes largest teaching hospitals, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust , chose the Alfresco Digital Business Platform to create an innovative enterprise content management solution to modernise its 3+ million patient records.
  • Working with Alfresco, the NHS Trusts success is paving the way for other hospitals across the UK to become paperless digital hospitals.
  • Using Alfresco the Trust has managed to completely overhaul its records management system and has begun converting its massive volume of paper records into digital format.
  • Alfresco has been absolutely pivotal for us in dealing with our paper records, said Rob Child, Programme Head of Digital Health Programmes, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Realises Cost & Time Efficiencies Thanks to Scandit Mobile Barcode Scanning

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Monday, June 11, 2018

Scandit integrated its software-based scanning with an electronic patient record solution, PPM+, which was developed internally by the Trust.

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  • Scandit integrated its software-based scanning with an electronic patient record solution, PPM+, which was developed internally by the Trust.
  • This allowed clinicians and nurses to leverage the computing power of mobile phones and other smart devices when scanning patients.
  • "The pilot scheme to test the Scandit solution worked so well that both clinicians and nurses didn't want us to take it away," commented Stuart MacMillan, Programme Manager, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
  • Many of the world's most innovative and successful companies are already reaping the benefits of Scandit's next-generation mobile data capture platform.