Government’s £200 million resilience funding announcement
“The Government announced an additional £200 million to boost resilience within the NHS. Whilst this will help to increase hospital bed capacity as we head into the winter months, it is simply not enough to establish long-term, sustainable resilience within the NHS...
HTA attends Kidney Research UK’s Parliamentary Reception
Last week, as part of Health Tech Alliance’s renal care sub-group, we attended Kidney Research UK’s Parliamentary Reception. The event was incredibly interesting, with a high calibre of speakers including: - Kidney Research UK’s CEO Sandra Currie, who discussed the...
GIANT Health event partnership
We're proud to announce an important partnership between Health Tech Alliance and GIANT Health. As part of this partnership, we invite members of the Health Tech Alliance to participate in GIANT Health Event 2023! The GIANT Health Event is the UK’s unmissable...
Parliament & HealthTech Roundtable
Last week, the Health Tech Alliance hosted our second event in our Parliament & HealthTech event series - a Parliamentary roundtable exploring the barriers and route to adoption for robotics assisted surgery. Thank you to our industry sponsors - CMR Surgical and...
Government’s Workforce Plan
Today, the Government published the Workforce Plan, pledging £2.4 billion in funding over the next five years to expand medical training facilities. The NHS long term plan focuses on doubling places for medical students, nurses, GP trainees for junior doctors and NHS...
Parliament & HealthTech Reception
Many thanks to all the attendees at yesterday’s Parliament & HealthTech 2023 Networking Reception in the House of Lords. Special thanks to our chair Dame Barbara Hakin, our host Lord James Bethell, and to our event sponsors Amazon Web Services (AWS), BD, CMR...
Medical Technology Strategy published
Today, the Government published the new Medical Technology Strategy. The strategy will focus on accelerating access to innovative technologies and sets out next steps for ensuring these technologies are accessible throughout the NHS. Our Policy Lead Ellie...
P&H Report
Our 2022 Parliament & HealthTech event series "Road to Resilience" has drawn to a close after two successful roundtables and our flagship Conference in May 2022 that featured speakers such as then Innovation Minister Lord Syed Kamall and Dr Samantha Roberts, Chief...
2022 Summary
As 2022 is drawing to a close, we wanted to take a moment to look back at the Health Tech Alliance’s year. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our industry and associate members, as well as everyone who turned up at our events this year. We have...
Concern about the MedTech Funding Mandate
We are extremely concerned that a decision not to add any new technologies in the 23/24 MedTech Funding Mandate was reached at a time when the NHS is under such unparalleled pressure. New health technologies and digital innovations, such as the ones already used in...
Policy Blueprint
Faster routes to adoption and wider uptake across the NHS for life changing healthtech are the key themes in Health Tech Alliance's (HTA) new Policy Blueprint. The HTA, chaired by Dame Barbara Hakin, operates with key decision makers and stakeholders across the NHS...
HTA Christmas Drinks
With December fast approaching, the Health Tech Alliance hosted our final member meeting of 2022 and our first ever Christmas Drinks! 🎄🍷 This was an incredibly interesting session with our Chair, Dame Barbara Hakin, giving a state of play on the impact of the...