The annual NHS Health & Care Innovation Expo struck positive notes for medtech and digital, and just for a change, the UK's health-care leaders could bask in the glow of an appreciative audience.
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens and UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt don't often get the chance to play to a home crowd – and this was a sizeable gig too: with 5,000 at Manchester Central, it was the biggest of the NHS's now annual Innovation Expos, Hunt told delegates.
And Stevens clearly knows how to work the audience, telling them it was good to be hanging out with the...
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UK-based Biocomposites will begin selling in the UK its next-generation osteoinductive bone graft substitute, NanoBone, which came with its acquisition of Artoss GmbH in June 2023. Meanwhile, the company has purchased remaining shares in the manufacturers of SYNICEM and Subiton antibiotic bone cements and preformed antibiotic-loaded spacers.
The firm’s dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system with is expected to be a growth driver for Abbott and already has acquired approximately 30%-40% of market share from Medtronic since its approval by the US FDA in July 2023, according to GlobalData.
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