Health and social care

UK AI Firm Quantexa, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, and the University of Liverpool’s Civic Health Innovation Labs Partner to Create a Groundbreaking Global AI Hub for Health and Social Care in Liverpool

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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Based within CHIL is the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC), a partnership between Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Liverpool, aimed to tackle global challenges in mental health, including increasing levels of illness.

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  • Based within CHIL is the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC), a partnership between Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Liverpool, aimed to tackle global challenges in mental health, including increasing levels of illness.
  • It will support building a trusted data foundation to develop better drug and digital therapies, as well as to better coordinate care services.
  • Quantexa will be working alongside teams from the University of Liverpool, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board, and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
  • Vishal Marria, CEO of Quantexa, said: “Quantexa’s vision is to work with university and NHS partners to address global current challenges in UK care programs.

Elton John welcomes expansion of opt-out testing for HIV to 46 Accident & Emergency sites across England and calls on all political leaders to do more to end AIDS in a speech at Speaker's House

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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LONDON, Nov. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Elton John was honoured at a reception hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS at the Speaker's House today in recognition of his enduring commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic, both personally and through the work of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

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  • In the UK, new HIV diagnoses are down 46% since their peak in 2015.
  • "In the 1990's, I visited far too many homes where people were dying of AIDS.
  • That's why the Labour Party will commission an update to the HIV Action Plan as soon as we come to government."
  • Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and United Nations Under-Secretary-General, said: "Over 40 million lives have been lost to AIDS.

Philip Morris International Applauds U.K. Government’s Approach to Achieve its Smoke-Free Ambition

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021
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Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) announced its support of the U.K. governments plan to simplify the pathway to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in England.

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  • Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) announced its support of the U.K. governments plan to simplify the pathway to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in England.
  • The U.K. already has one of Europes lowest smoking rates, supported by a high rate of smokers who have switched to better alternatives.
  • Gregoire Verdeaux, Senior Vice President, External Affairs at Philip Morris International commented:
    The U.K. is a global leader in medicine, science and public health.
  • A growing number of countriesincluding the US, New Zealand, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Bulgariahave recognized this approach and implemented differentiated regulation for noncombustible alternatives.