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28
Mar

The power of listening in micro-business support

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Small businesses, categorised as those with fewer than 50 employees, account for more than 99% of all businesses in the UK, as of 2023. Of those, nearly 75% of the small businesses are sole traders and just over 21% have fewer than 10 employees. That equates to more than 5.5 million businesses in the UK […]

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29
Feb

Following the footsteps of the Romans: The A548 Coast Road from Chester to Prestatyn

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The ritual of following in the path of the romans along the old coast road from Chester to Prestatyn has become a habit for me over time. This ritual was borne out of the addiction to coffee and to the sea. One could argue that Talacre was the shortest point the beach from where I […]

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31
Jan

2024 is expected to be a huge year for AI in healthcare

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It feels like you can’t go more than five minutes these days without someone mentioning AI and its potential applications, benefits and risks to virtually every area of life. OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5 (GPT-5) is expected to launch at some point in 2024, and reputed features include improved reliability, personalisation and communication, along with the ability […]

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03
Nov

How BG Healthcare helped support a leading training provider’s programmes and content for health and care settings

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High Speed Training is a leading training provider, offering high-quality professional training across many sectors. They were launched in 2008 and are trusted by over 2.5 million learners.Gareth Greenwood, Learning and Development Partnerships Manager at High Speed Training, said: “It was a pleasure working with BG Healthcare to help develop new courses for High Speed […]

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11
Aug

What sparks your creativity? 

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American sociologist Ray Oldenburg is known for his theory of ‘third places’. The concept of us having a first place (home), a second place (work) and a third place, where we spend time between the other two places, exchanging ideas, building relationships and, essentially, having a kind of community that is centred around a shared […]

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17
Jul

Vaxxers – Sarah Gilbert & Cath Green

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At the start of 2020, Sarah Gilbert was the professor of vaccinology at the university of Oxford and had been working on developing vaccines for a number of years. Dr Cath Green had a half-time role as head of the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility (CBF) and half-time running a research team at the Welcome Centre for […]

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30
May

BGH at Primary Care Conference in Salford

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Bryan Griffiths, MD, BG Healthcare Consultancy attended the Primary Care Conference in Salford recently. The programme featured talks from Dr. Mike Holmes, Vice Chair of the Royal College of GPs. Louise Brady RN, Nurse Lead Primary and Community Care, Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership and Dr. Sohail Munshi, GP Five Oaks Family Practice and […]

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14
May

A Virtual Experience

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  We have been working on all things Virtual Reality (VR) recently and it was a truly immersive experience when I travelled to London to meet up with our new clients My Cyber Royaume. During a full demonstration, I was able to explore the virtual holiday Villa – with cooking activities in the kitchen and […]

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27
Apr

Malopolska Visit for Ithaca

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It was a privilege to be involved in the Krakow Region Visit for the Ithaca EU project earlier this year. I went across as part of the UK delegation for the EEPE – which is the Exchange of Experience and Peer Evaluation in Poland. The visit started with a trip to the Babinski Clinical Hospital […]

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10
Mar

5G Testbed Demonstrations of New Technologies

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We were treated to some excellent new technologies at the 5G testbed in Liverpool last week. On behalf of the eHealth Cluster, we explored some new solutions for health and care running on the 5G network available at the new Accelerator building in Liverpool. This testbed is set up to see if reliable and affordable […]

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