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THE CLINICAL SERVICES JOURNAL Inside this issue 27 Leading medical engineering into new frontiers
5 Editor’s Comment Taking ‘the medicine’
www.clinicalservicesjournal.com Volume 24 I Issue 5 I May 2025
6 Cover Story: Introducing the surgical robot that adapts to you
Your practice, your robot, your choice: meet Versius, the surgical robot designed for you…
9 News 15 Surgical site infection surveillance
At the recent OneTogether conference held at the National Conference Centre in Birmingham, insights were shared by experts and professionals interested in reducing the occurrence of surgical site infection. Kate Woodhead RGN DMS provides an overview of some of key learning points shared at the event.
19 The five pillars of SSI surveillance
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s Surgical Site Infection Team provide an insight into patient-reported surgical site infection surveillance, using the latest smart-phone technology. The team have identified ‘five pillars of post-discharge surveillance’, to underpin this approach.
24 EBME Expo 2025 - Shaping the Future of Healthcare
Professor John Sandham, Chair of the EBME Expo, highlights the event’s focus on practical knowledge and best practices in technology management, acquisition, connectivity, use, and maintenance. The Expo aims to demonstrate how optimised healthcare technology contributes directly to NHS productivity, cost-effectiveness and, most importantly, enhanced patient safety.
THE CLINICAL SERVICES JOURNAL 34 New guide on medical equipment principles The case for surgical hubs:
reducing waiting lists Leading medical engineering into new frontiers Patient safety improvement initiatives
An ‘Essential guide to medical equipment principles’, has been launched to help new clinical engineers, junior nurses, medics and operating department practitioners (ODPs) understand the fundamentals of many of the standard medical devices they will encounter in a hospital environment.
37 The case for surgical hubs: reducing waiting lists
Peter Sedman, from the Confederation of British Surgery, discusses the case for surgical hubs and highlights some of the successes that have been achieved, using this approach, across the UK.
41 NHS Scotland: progress towards net zero
Human health is inextricably linked to the health of our planet, and action is well underway in Scotland to deliver improvements in sustainability. Innovation Manager at InnoScot Health, Frances Ramsay analyses the environmental outlook for Scottish healthcare.
45 Difficult airways: how can we mitigate risks in theatre?
Dr. Sandeep Sudan, consultant anaesthetist at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, and Royal College of Anaesthetists/ Difficult Airway Society Airway Leads Advisor writes on the importance of preparation for difficult airways.
49 Patient safety improvement initiatives
Dawn Stott provides an insight into some key improvement initiatives around the safe management of airway devices and shares the findings from NHS Trust freedom of information requests, surveys and focus groups. The research underscores the importance of continuous learning, and a culture of transparency and collaboration across disciplines to sustain improvements in patient safety.
55 Strengthening the case for scalp cooling
Data from a registry spanning 13 years has provided new insights into scalp cooling to treat chemotherapy-induced alopecia.
The first gathering of the ‘EBME Expo Leaders Network’ brought together a select group of influential leaders from the healthcare technology (HealthTech) industry, at the Cinnamon Club, in Westminster, to drive innovation and to collaborate on achieving key objectives in the field of EBME. This Special Report outlines the key issues raised.
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