04.30.15
During this year’s Med-Tech Innovation Expo, held April 29-20 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, the United Kingdom, a number of innovative companies were selected to receive the 2015 Medilink UK Awards.
World Cup skier and paralymic athlete Sean Rose was the master of ceremonies for this year’s Medilink UK Awards, which recognize the past year’s cutting edge technologies, outstanding business achievements and international success across the UK's life-sciences sector.
The nominees were drawn from winners of regional awards across the United Kingdom, selected by panels from Medilink UK member organizations.
Medilink UK is a national health technology business support organization that helps serve manufacturers, service providers, designers, OEMs and suppliers of medical technology. The group helps companies from concept through to commercialization and nurtures collaborations between academics, clinicians and industry.
Med-Tech Innovation is a UK-based medtech magazine.
Winners from the five award categories were all honored at the event, with two runners up from each category also highlighted.
The winner of the Nabarro Startup Award was Sheffield-based Swellaway, for the company’s portable self-treatment device, which applies cold, heat and compression to human or animals’ joints and muscles. The firm already has secured a contract worth approximately $2.6 million with a leading equine distributor. Sales are expected to increase rapidly as the firm expand into the human treatment market.
The two runners up for this category were Birmingham-based Aston Eyetech and Aylesbury-based The Diabetic Boot Company.
The Learning Clinic, a London-based firm, won this year's News-Medical.net Innovation Award for its revolutionary software system, which allows clinicians to capture patient data on iPods and iPads in real time at the bedside. The company, officials claim, has had remarkable results across the 45 hospitals where the software is being used.
Nottingham-based Snowden Healthcare and Leeds-based Brandon Medical were the two runners up in this category.
The 24/7 Exhibition Services Export Achievement Award was awarded to Birmingham-based NutraHealth Group. NutraHealth UK, which manufactures and distributes of vitamins minerals and food supplements, experienced a 53 percent increase in the amount exported in the last year.
The runners up for this category were North Yorkshire-based Principle Healthcare International and Swansea-based DTR Medical.
The Devices for Dignity (D4D) Partnership with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Award went to Lancaster-based Veraz Ltd. The firm’s flagship product, the VeraMedico System, has led to a 200 percent improvement in hand hygiene in the NHS, which is one of the main ways to reduce the spread of infection. Staff using the system have a L.E.D. light on their badges that shows their current hygiene status.
Stirling-based Dolby Vivisol and Denbighshire-based MicroVisk were named runners up in the category.
Bootle-based Mast Group Ltd won this year's BioHub Birmingham Outstanding Achievement Award. The company is manufacturer and supplier of diagnostic products that mostly are mostly for the detection and diagnosis of infectious diseases. Their Mast Uri system has halved the time it takes to tell if a patient has a urinary tract infection, and can also tell the clinician the name of bacteria causing the infection and which antibiotics will be effective against it.
The runners up in the category were Oxfordshire-based Novarix and North Yorkshire-based GBUK Ltd.
“I have seen tremendous strides made over the last year to further develop the organizations to better serve regional small and medium-size enterprises,” said Gary Stapleton, Medilink UK's chairman and business director of 3M’s healthcare business group for West Europe. “The Medilink UK Awards provide a wonderful example of the strength and diversity of our sector—as well as celebrating the achievements of companies who are at the forefront of patient care and provide considerable wealth generation to the UK economy.”
World Cup skier and paralymic athlete Sean Rose was the master of ceremonies for this year’s Medilink UK Awards, which recognize the past year’s cutting edge technologies, outstanding business achievements and international success across the UK's life-sciences sector.
The nominees were drawn from winners of regional awards across the United Kingdom, selected by panels from Medilink UK member organizations.
Medilink UK is a national health technology business support organization that helps serve manufacturers, service providers, designers, OEMs and suppliers of medical technology. The group helps companies from concept through to commercialization and nurtures collaborations between academics, clinicians and industry.
Med-Tech Innovation is a UK-based medtech magazine.
Winners from the five award categories were all honored at the event, with two runners up from each category also highlighted.
The winner of the Nabarro Startup Award was Sheffield-based Swellaway, for the company’s portable self-treatment device, which applies cold, heat and compression to human or animals’ joints and muscles. The firm already has secured a contract worth approximately $2.6 million with a leading equine distributor. Sales are expected to increase rapidly as the firm expand into the human treatment market.
The two runners up for this category were Birmingham-based Aston Eyetech and Aylesbury-based The Diabetic Boot Company.
The Learning Clinic, a London-based firm, won this year's News-Medical.net Innovation Award for its revolutionary software system, which allows clinicians to capture patient data on iPods and iPads in real time at the bedside. The company, officials claim, has had remarkable results across the 45 hospitals where the software is being used.
Nottingham-based Snowden Healthcare and Leeds-based Brandon Medical were the two runners up in this category.
The 24/7 Exhibition Services Export Achievement Award was awarded to Birmingham-based NutraHealth Group. NutraHealth UK, which manufactures and distributes of vitamins minerals and food supplements, experienced a 53 percent increase in the amount exported in the last year.
The runners up for this category were North Yorkshire-based Principle Healthcare International and Swansea-based DTR Medical.
The Devices for Dignity (D4D) Partnership with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Award went to Lancaster-based Veraz Ltd. The firm’s flagship product, the VeraMedico System, has led to a 200 percent improvement in hand hygiene in the NHS, which is one of the main ways to reduce the spread of infection. Staff using the system have a L.E.D. light on their badges that shows their current hygiene status.
Stirling-based Dolby Vivisol and Denbighshire-based MicroVisk were named runners up in the category.
Bootle-based Mast Group Ltd won this year's BioHub Birmingham Outstanding Achievement Award. The company is manufacturer and supplier of diagnostic products that mostly are mostly for the detection and diagnosis of infectious diseases. Their Mast Uri system has halved the time it takes to tell if a patient has a urinary tract infection, and can also tell the clinician the name of bacteria causing the infection and which antibiotics will be effective against it.
The runners up in the category were Oxfordshire-based Novarix and North Yorkshire-based GBUK Ltd.
“I have seen tremendous strides made over the last year to further develop the organizations to better serve regional small and medium-size enterprises,” said Gary Stapleton, Medilink UK's chairman and business director of 3M’s healthcare business group for West Europe. “The Medilink UK Awards provide a wonderful example of the strength and diversity of our sector—as well as celebrating the achievements of companies who are at the forefront of patient care and provide considerable wealth generation to the UK economy.”