Healthcare Roundup 25 August 2022

Liz Truss

Conservative Party leadership contest front-runner Liz Truss indicated that she would divert £13 billion earmarked for elective recovery to social care; having previously pledged to scrap the health and care levy altogether. Think-tanks worried that this would leave NHS managers with “impossible choices” as health and care head into an increasingly difficult-looking winter.

NHS Scotland launched a sustainability and climate strategy to support its ambition to become net zero by 2040. There were significant contract wins, deployments, and technology innovations from companies including Lyniate, IMMJ Systems, Nervecentre, and Dignio.

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