A service design research project led by Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Healthier Together Partnership has seen a significant reduction in the number of people visiting urgent care after calling NHS 111 (estimated at around 70%).

In response to winter pressures on urgent care due to Covid-19, the NHS needed to reduce the risk of infection in busy waiting...

The founder of a health tech firm with roots in the South West has been shortlisted in the 19th Annual NatWest Everywoman Awards .

Sarah Bolt, founder and CEO of Forth , is one of four finalists for the Demeter Award, the award for the most inspirational woman running a business that has been trading for three to five years.

Forth, which is based just over the Severn Bridge...

Bristol-based LatchAid launched a new app last week, during World Breastfeeding Week, in a bid to provide increased support for breastfeeding mothers.

LatchAid, which is part of the SETsquared Bristol incubator, was set up by Dr Chen Mao Davies, an Oscar and BAFTA-winning expert in computer graphics and animation, after facing her own struggles with breastfeeding, pain and subsequent...

A health tech firm with roots in the South West has launched a first-of-its-kind product designed to improve wellbeing by giving women greater understanding of their hormone cycles.

Forth, which is based just over the Severn Bridge in Wales, but was founded in Bristol, has developed its Female Hormone Mapping product to give women insights into how their personal hormones fluctuate...