Healthcare Archive

News27 July 2020

Junk food ad ban could see advertising jobs lost, warns IPA

Liam Kay

A proposed pre-9pm ban on the advertising of foods with high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) content would have little impact on childhood obesity and cost jobs in the advertising sector, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has warned the government.

Feature24 July 2020

How do different cultures handle crisis uncertainty?

Oliver Sweet

While Covid-19 is a global crisis, how we respond to uncertainty and anxiety has cultural differences.

News23 July 2020

InCrowd parent company acquires SurveyHealthcare Globus

Apollo Intelligence Corporation, a portfolio company of Saroras Private Capital, has acquired healthcare data collection and survey firm SurveyHealthcare Globus.

News17 July 2020

Open Data Institute awards funding for data projects

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has announced funding for several UK data sharing projects focused on the energy and health sectors through its research and development programme.

News8 July 2020

Schlesinger launches clinical research brand

Liam Kay

Data collection and research services business Schlesinger Group has branded its clinical division as Schlesinger Clinical Research.

News3 July 2020

Arsenal Capital Partners to acquire Cello Health

Health advisory business Cello Health has agreed to be acquired by Pharma Value Demonstration Bidco, a portfolio company of private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners.

News22 June 2020

Ethnicity data should be mandatory, says PHE report

Ethnicity data collection should be mandated as part of health and social care data collection, according to a report from Public Health England (PHE) to understand the impact of Covid-19 on BAME groups. 

News19 June 2020

UK drops centralised contact tracing app

The UK government will stop work on its Covid-19 contact tracing app and switch to a more ‘decentralised’ approach, based on technology designed by Apple and Google.

News16 June 2020

Norway suspends contact tracing app

The Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH) has suspended the country’s Covid-19 contact tracing app following a temporary ban from the Norwegian data protection authority.

News4 June 2020

Specsavers head of insight departs

Eddie O’Brien, head of customer insight and UK local marketing at Specsavers, has left the company to launch insight network Destination 5.0 and has joined research consultancy Market Measures as a non-executive director.