Medilink Yorkshire and Humber News - Spring 2015 Medilink Yorkshire and Humber News - Spring 2015 | Page 8

INTERNATIONAL MEDILINK MEMBERS HELPING TO TACKLE SPREAD OF EBOLA Members Visual Systems Healthcare and Sidhil Ltd both recently joined the fight against Ebola. Visual Systems Healthcare, was chosen to supply specialised splatter-proof clipboards to treatment centres and hospitals in Sierra Leone in a bid to tackle the Ebola epidemic, while Sidhil Ltd worked flat out to produce over 1,600 special beds and mattresses to be sent to assist with the crisis. For more information on Visual Systems visit www.visualsystemshealthcare.wordpress.com For more information on Sidhil visit www.sidhil.com L @visualsystems L @SidhilLtd FOCUS ON: SHEFFIELD PRECISION MEDICAL Sheffield Precision Medical (SPM) manufactures ‘make to print’ generic and custom orthopaedic surgical instruments. Winner of a number of export achievement awards, SPM has grown its export customer base from 5% of turnover to in excess of 35% within the past four years. As SPM enters 2015, their global customer base includes three US States, with potential for a fourth during the first quarter. SPM began exporting to Australia during quarter four of 2014, and also gained new clients in Europe. The expansive variety of product is due to the capabilities of their highly skilled design and manufacturing engineering team who work closely with international client OEM design teams. Whilst SPM does not currently manufacture directly for the emerging Chinese market, there is future potential, especially as international regulatory standards become more aligned. SPM has longterm projects underway towards gaining a share of the growing Chinese requirement for precision made instruments. For more information visit: www.sheffieldpm.co.uk L @sheffpm_info FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR FEEDBACK ON MEDILINK NEWS, PLEASE CONTACT: Kat Trinder, PR Officer Medilink Yorkshire & Humber [phone] [email protected] ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCE NETWORK LEADS THE WAY WITH INTERNATIONAL OPEN INNOVATION The Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (YHAHSN) have been leading the way in forging relationships between the English NHS, UK industry and the rest of the world with a focus on innovative healthcare solutions. The YHAHSN is one of 15 innovative health networks set up to create and harness strong and purposeful partnership between patients, health services, industry, and academia to achieve a significant improvement in health and wealth. Recently YHAHSN ran a successful Open Innovation Workshop on Connected Health for Healthy Ageing in China, to identify potential partnerships that could be forged between UK and China Industry to benefit healthcare across the globe. Following the visit, 12 Memorandum of Understanding documents were signed by both UK and China commercial partners, with consortia created to produce innovative solutions to transform digital healthcare. The project consortia are now working up applications to access up to £4m proof of concept funding made up of £2m from the Chinese provincial government and a further £2m match funding from the Chinese companies involved in the project consortia. www.yhahsn.co.uk L @AHSN_YandH WWW.MEDILINK.CO.UK