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AI heart disease technology scoops national win at NHS Parliamentary
Awards on NHS’ 75th birthday
An artificial intelligence cardiac diagnostic tool which is speeding up
heart function assessments and reducing MRI scan reporting time for
NHS heart patients has won The Future NHS Award at the prestigious
NHS Parliamentary Awards ceremony.
The innovative tool, which was developed by scientists and clinicians
from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the University of Sheffield’s
Insigneo Institute, provides a super-fast analysis of the heart’s function,
automatically performing tasks to measure heart damage seen on MRI
heart images in seconds.
The tool was named the overall winner in the national NHS Parliamentary
Awards, which celebrate the work of NHS staff who have gone above and
beyond in their field. The Awards, which were attended by Members of
Parliament from across the political spectrum, were held on the 5 July
to commemorate the health services’ 75th birthday.
The Sheffield team’s work was nominated by Sheffield MP Clive Betts.
Kirsten Major, Chief Executive, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, said: “We are honoured and hugely proud to have
received this award on the NHS’ 75th birthday. Here in Sheffield we
have a long history of embracing innovation to improve patients’ lives,
and the dedication and compassion of our staff has been a constant
theme. The innovative use of AI to help diagnose heart problems is
a fantastic example of the transformative skill of the team who
developed it and is already enabling clinicians to speed up heart
disease diagnosis. We are exceptionally proud of the teams both within
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the University of Sheffield who have
worked so hard to bring this technology to the NHS. This is extremely
deserving recognition and I would like to thank all the teams involved.”
Professor Koen Lamberts, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield,
said: “We are proud of our long-established and successful relationship
with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which is at the heart of
bringing our innovative translational research to patients. This project
is already making a difference to patients’ lives across South Yorkshire
and beyond. Congratulations to the collaborative team who have
pioneered this cutting-edge AI technology.”
Clive Betts MP, Labour MP for Sheffield South East, said: “I was delighted
to accept this award on behalf of the team at Sheffield Teaching
Hospitals.
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The innovative use of AI to improve the images which doctors have to
help them more accurately diagnose heart problems is already leading
to more speedy identification of problems and is therefore reducing
waiting times for treatment.”
Richard Barker, Regional Director, North East and Yorkshire, NHS
England, said: “I am delighted to see Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust recognised as worthy winners within the Future NHS
Award category. The work they have undertaken is outstanding and is
already making such a difference to patients. I would like to offer my
huge congratulations to the Trust and team behind this fantastic work.”
The AI cardiac diagnostic tool works by automatically segmenting
images taken of the complex chambers of the heart to analyse the
heart’s function, performing mathematical and volumetric tasks on
a staggering series of over 180 images taken from one patient’s MRI
scan in seconds. Without the technology, these tasks would need to be
performed manually.
The technology can also monitor changes in pressure that place over
the course of the cardiac cycle, giving more detailed analysis critical to
understanding how blood flows in and out of the heart.
The national NHS Parliamentary Award ceremony was held at the Queen
Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster, London on Wednesday 5 July.
Lee - ODP from the U.K. As seen on
the BBC’s “Wanted Down Under”
My Name is Lee Parsons. I am an Operating Department Practitioner or
in New Zealand an Anaesthetic Technician.
I came to NZ in March 2020 just before lockdown from the UK.
The process to come to NZ took me about a year to move but that is
because my family and I had a relaxed timeframe to move here.
The easiest part of the process was getting our jobs and getting on the
plane.
The most challenging part of the process was sorting out the visas, more
so for my wife who had to provide a time frame of our relationship...
Even though we’ve been married 12 years. The other difficult thing
about the move was trying to find a decent house to rent, especially as
lockdown was creeping closer.
My first impressions of NZ were that people seemed really friendly
and helpful. When we finally got a house we managed to borrow some
furniture from people for a few months which was brilliant.
The best parts of NZ are the beaches!!! There are so many to choose
from and that is just in Auckland
What I miss the most is my friends and family. Thankfully there’s video
chat.
My advice if you are planning to come to NZ is do it, the lifestyle is so
much better. It is a hard slog to get here, you will miss your family and
friends but it’s worth it. Like they say the world is getting smaller with
technology and faster flights.
Watch Lee and his family make their decision to move to Auckland here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dk37?fbclid=IwAR2Nom1hOt
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