life sciences

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Cepta Duffy. head of life sciences and health tech at Enterprise Ireland
3 December 2025

Ireland hits record €491m health tech VC investment

Irish life sciences and health tech companies set a decade-high record in 2024 raising €491.3 million across 89 VC deals.
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Richard Stubbs, chair, Health Innovation Network, and Dame Barbara Hakin, chair, Health Tech Alliance
22 October 2025

Can the UK become a global powerhouse for HealthTech?

Decisive reforms have created an economic opening for health technologies, write Richard Stubbs and Dame Barbara Hakin
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Woman in lab coat looking in microscope
16 July 2025

Life sciences plan aims to support a prevention-focused NHS

The government's Life Sciences Sector Plan aims to harness scientific innovation for economic growth and support a prevention-focused NHS.
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Wes Streeting
9 April 2025

Wes Streeting pledges to retain digital workforce amid NHS reforms

Wes Streeting, health secretary, confirmed the government’s commitment to retaining the digital workforce amid the abolition of NHS England.  
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24 April 2024

EU regulation: AI Act will mean a raft of new requirements for ‘high-risk’ systems

The new EU AI Act will have global reach – and a huge impact on the medtech and life sciences
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Labour
30 January 2024

Labour unveils new life sciences sector plan in a bid to increase growth

Labour Tuesday unveiled a new life sciences sector plan that it said will create thousands of jobs and inject growth
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Coffee Time Briefing
9 January 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕ 

This briefing covers the rise of employment in the life sciences in the north west UK and the research collaboration
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3 April 2023

Cambridge University Hospital CEO to advise NHSE on life science links

Roland Sinker, chief executive of Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust, is to join NHS England as an unpaid
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Life Sciences Minister Nadhim Zahawi
12 March 2020

£10m Innovation scheme launched to tackle long-term conditions

The Innovation Scholars Scheme will support collaboration between researchers and industry in the development of new wearable health devices, diagnostic
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The exterior of Edinburgh University Law School
3 February 2020

Edinburgh Uni to launch £20m research centre to transform later life care

The Uni has partnered with Legal & General to offer a 7-year research programme across medicine, life sciences, engineering, informatics
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