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NEWS
SHIL Publishes Annual Report
It has been an extremely busy time for Scottish Health Innovations Ltd. The previous financial year has seen the company expand, relocate office and assess even more ideas from NHS Scotland. SHIL has just published its annual report.
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The problem of amputees suffering phantom pain is being addressed by Scottish scientists who have developed glasses that trick the patient into thinking their severed limb is still in place.
Throughout NHS Scotland,healthcare professionals are continually coming up with new and exciting ideas for improving patient care. Since 2002 Scottish Health Innovations Ltd (SHIL) has been helping them turn those ideas into commercial reality.
(Nexxus Newsletter Spring 2009)
Bringing Ideas to Life
NHS Tayside is already active in research and SHIL has worked with numerous NHS Tayside innovators since 2002 helping to develop a wide variety of projects.
Medalytix Ltd raises £2m in venture funding from International Investors
Medalytix today announced it has successfully raised £2m in venture funding to support the International sales and marketing of its ground-breaking iGradingTM product and build its pipeline of intellectual property. The fund-raising was led by Hotspur Capital Partners, who were joined by Corporación Empresarial ONCE, the business and venture arm of the Spanish National Organisation for the Blind and existing investors the Rising Stars Growth Fund (RSGF) and Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF).