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24th Mar 2023

Delivering Hospital at Home with Virtual Wards 

By leveraging patient independence, promoting faster discharge and avoiding health deterioration, virtual wards have the potential to transform care delivery to patients and help healthcare encourage positive outcomes. 

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13th Feb 2023

How MedTech is Paving the Way for Patient Power 

How many steps have you done so far today? A couple hundred? A few thousand? Whatever the figure, I bet the numbers are in arms’ reach – literally. On the Fitbit on your wrist or in the Health app on your iPhone in front of you… […]

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02nd Nov 2022

The great green transition

In April 2020 the price of US oil turned negative in the wake of the pandemic and has since never fully recovered as Governments start to take action finally waking up to the effects climate change has had on our economy. While this is a good thing for our planet, it has left many “dirty” […]

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01st Nov 2022

Did Movies Predict the Future of MedTech?  

Now just as a starting point, I love all things sci-fi, from the classics of Blade Runner and Back to the Future to more recent stories like Westworld. Basically, I am wanting to live 100 years in the future.   And it’s not just the love of these alternative worlds or dystopian realities that excites me, […]

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31st Oct 2022

Wrapping Up Week 2 of Leeds Digital Festival 

Guess who’s back, back again? It’s only Halston Group with our round-up of the second week of Leeds Digital Festival, following week 1’s essay! Once again, my colleagues didn’t disappoint when sending over their notes to make this round-up blog – as I said to Antonia Gifford, Group Senior Marketing Manager, reading what she’d written […]

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11th Oct 2022

Lessons From Week 1 of Leeds Digital Festival 

Well, well, well. Wasn’t 2022’s instalment of the Leeds Digital Festival SOMETHING ELSE?! We thought we were used to having busy diaries, yet the last two weeks of September did something else for our stamina! As a Group, we crammed our calendars with a record-number of events, relishing the chance to listen, learn, lead, and […]

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25th Aug 2022

Wearables in Healthcare: What’s Next?

Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch, whatever team you’re on, with 48% of the UK having owned a smartwatch, there’s a good chance you’ve been one of those fitness-watch-steps-obsessed people at some point. But new, emerging developments in wearables go a bit further than tracking how many calories you burnt at last night’s spin class. Think of […]

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24th Aug 2022

The Halston Group Guide to Leeds Digital Festival

It’s our favourite time of the year! Leeds Digital Festival has gone live with their slate of events for September 22 and it’s even more epic than ever. Talk about a smorgasbord of happenings in the buzzing heart of the digital north. There’s events on business advice, marketing, networking, cyber security and data, there’s coding, […]

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06th Jul 2022

Entering the GreenTech Era: The webinar addressing challenges in GreenTech 

Our planet is facing a climate crisis and the race to achieve carbon neutrality is intensifying. Whilst the world is warming and bringing with it a myriad of problems, countries have pledged for climate change action.  Whilst as consumers we can make small changes, to create the systematic change that is required organisations and governments […]

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25th Jan 2022

Discussing Aerospace Engineering with MTA

What’s next for UK aerospace manufacturing? The MTA (The Manufacturing Technologies Association) is the UK’s trade association for companies who create, and supply technology utilised by manufacturers making the products we rely on.  To celebrate this innovative sector, the association runs a yearly event, MACH, which is the UK’s premier event for engineering-based manufacturing technologies. […]

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17th Jan 2022

Innovating in Aerospace Defence with Atec Engineering Solutions

Atec Engineering Solutions are a 75 year strong privately owned engineering company based in Manchester. They operate predominately within the defence industry, which includes aerospace. The company manufactures control systems alongside a variety of other components required for flight. Whilst manufacturing is a major focus, a large proportion of their service is repairing existing assets. […]

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04th Jan 2022

Detecting Thermal Footprints with Satellite Vu

Satellite Vu, is helping to achieve global net-zero, by launching thermal infrared imaging satellites into space, that will be able to provide near real-time thermal data of any building on the planet. We spoke to Alex Gow, Sales Director at Satellite Vu to understand how their innovative technology is enabling users to detect building temperatures […]

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16th Sep 2021

The Rise of Sustainable Marketing

Say NO to Greenwashing   A big problem in the sustainable marketing world is greenwashing. Greenwashing is when brands convey a false impression or provide misleading information to make it appear as though they are producing products in an environmentally friendly manner. As much as this often creates short term gain for businesses, they are ultimately often discovered for […]

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