Oncology
Medical devices and equipment
- Company Name: Elekta
Website: https://www.elekta.com/
Company profile: Elekta are a leading clinical radiotherapy equipment manufacturer of MR-LINACS & Brachytherapy systems, manufactured in Crawley, UK.
The company have developed a wide portfolio of gamma knives, stereotactic surgical equipment, treatment planning systems, brachytherapy, neuro-surgery, oncology informatics and radio-imaging equipment.
Elekta have a large presence in Indian oncology care and have installations across public & private healthcare systems in India.
- Company Name: Varian
Website: https://www.varian.com/en-gb
Company profile: Varian are a leading radiotherapy equipment manufacturer in the UK with a wide portfolio of LINACs, AI powered cancer care solutions, treatment planning systems, Brachytherapy systems and clinical outcomes management software solutions.
Varian develop intelligent cancer care solutions and have developed the Ethos AI powered personalised cancer delivery system for adaptive radiotherapy treatment in under 15 minutes. The company have also developed a range of radio surgery and proton beam therapy devices for precision radiotherapy.
- Company Name: Ariane
Website: https://www.arianemedicalsystems.com/
Company profile: Arriane Medical Systems have developed the Papillon+ portable brachytherapy system to offer turnkey services for rectal, superficial and intraoperative X-ray brachytherapy treatments with high dose rate and low treatment times. The Papillon+ system delivers precision dosing for basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas and can be applied directly onto tumours or to IORT surgical cavities. The Papillon+ system enables better treatment outcomes, increased organ preservation and reduced hospital bed time with low energy X ray and shielding requirements.
- Company Name: Paxman Scalp Coolers
Website: https://paxmanscalpcooling.com
Company profile: Paxman scalp cooling have developed pioneering scalp cooling technology Cold Cap systems to reduce impacts of chemotherapy induced alopecia. Paxman scalp cooling are world leaders in scalp cooling with clinically validated outcomes in breast cancer patients through compact devices with single-patient-use cold caps. The device is FDA approved and allows for precise patient scalp cooling and temperature monitoring. Paxman have a large presence in leading Indian oncology hospitals.
Infrastructure:
- Company Name: Essentia
Website: www.essentia.uk.com
Company profile: The Guys Cancer Centre which opened 2016 was designed by Essentia Trading Ltd,
who have designed many other hospitals and healthcare buildings around the world.
Essentia is unique. Combining NHS values with commercial focus, we deliver innovative solutions to help public sector clients improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
- Company Name: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Website: www.leedsth.nhs.uk
Company profile: The Christie, Leeds Trust and UCLH have all recently built cancer centres and can give advice and introduce experienced architects. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and The Christie NHS FT has particular expertise around building radiography facilities, radiation shielding and equipment commissioning.
- Company Name: Strategic Healthcare Planning UK
Website: http://www.shp-uk.com
Company profile: Strategic Healthcare Planning LLP have extensive experience in creating cancer facilities in the UK and overseas.
They provide operational consultancy in the UK and overseas with significant operations in Turkey and the Middle East.
- Company Name: Mott MacDonald
Website: https://www.mottmac.com/buildings/healthcare
Company profile: Mott MacDonald provide project and cost management / scheduling, construction design, supervision and management, value engineering, procurement and raw material management.
Mott also provide asset/impact/project evaluation, change management, capacity utilisation, process engineering, clinical and non-clinical operation optimisation and health infrastructure development.
They have worked with Aster DM Healthcare, Tata Trusts and leading Indian healthcare groups for infrastructure services.
Genomics:
- Company Name: Congenica
Website: www.essentia.uk.com
Company profile: Congenica are world leaders in genomic medicine based clinical decision support systems using end-to-end next generation sequencing data to guide treatment decisions and improve outcomes. Congenica’s platform enables for maximizing throughput, efficiency and saves cost and money. The platform is scalable, integrated, automated, and intuitive allowing for genomic interpretation of large volumes of data with confidence. The company have also developed curated gene panels, variants and literature to facilitate rapid analysis and enable actionable clinical decisions across CoViD-19, Neurodevelopmental disorders and prenatal genomic disorders.
- Company Name: Genomics England
Website: https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/
Company profile: Genomics England has developed one of the world’s largest cancer genome datasets, including both somatic and germline genomes. Genomes are supported by regularly updated and curated clinical data. Additional data types are being added, including digital pathology images. In addition to biosample and recontact availability, Genomics England also provides bioinformatics consultancy for industry researchers. Genomics England is committed to enabling actionable research that will improve global patient outcomes.
Digital Health:
- Company Name: Behold Ai
Website: www.behold.ai
Company profile: Behold.ai provides Artificial Intelligence solutions for the triage and diagnosis of radiological images. Utilising cutting edge technology, behold.ai can instantly diagnose normal Chest X-Ray examinations, prioritise suspected lung cancers and triage abnormal examinations. This adds capacity to radiology departments, reduces reporting times and improves patient outcomes. Behold.ai utilises state-of-the-art technology to provide healthcare providers with cutting edge Artificial Intelligence diagnostic solutions and is currently being used across Apollo Radiology networks in India and is FDA cleared, CE Mark II certified.
- Company Name: Optellum
Website: https://optellum.com/
Company profile: Optellum have developed a Virtual Nodule Clinic, the world’s first AI powered clinical decision support system for early lung cancer diagnosis.
The Virtual Nodule Clinic allows clinicians to identify and track at-risk patients, make optimal clinical decisions and manage incidental lung nodule patient populations. Optellum’s integrated proprietary Lung cancer prediction AI algorithm uses clinically validated digital biomarkers based on artificial intelligence and CT imaging to accurately detect early signs of cancer.
- Company Name: C the Signs
Website: www.cthesigns.com
Company profile: C the Signs is an award-winning clinical decision support tool founded by doctors.
The tool uses artificial intelligence mapped with the latest evidence to support healthcare professionals to identify patients at risk of cancer at the earliest and most survivable stage of the disease. Covering the entire spectrum of cancer, C the Signs can identify which cancer(s) a patient is at risk of and, what test, investigation or referral they need in less than 30 seconds. C the Signs, which currently covers a population of 8million patients, is available on App, desktop and integrated with the patient’s electronic health record. C the Signs is an evidence-based tool, that has had a significant impact on patient outcomes. Trials to date have demonstrated a 30 times improvement in cancer detection rates.
- Company Name: Feedback Medical / Bleepa
Website: www.cthesigns.com
Company profile: Bleepa is a secure radiological image communication platform that enables clinicians to share and annotate clinical-grade images on mobile devices. Bleepa supports clinical referrals and treatment decisions within and between hospitals, community diagnostic hubs and other care settings helping speed referral times for patients wherever they go. Bleepa facilitates image viewing directly from existing PACS systems and can support CT’s, MRI’s., X-Rays and Ultrasounds.
Cancer Prevention:
- Company Name: Public Health England
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england
Company profile: Public Health England has many roles in oncology:
- Public education programmes
- Cancer Registration - a single National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) in England. This holds information on every person in the England with Cancer and every one of their contacts with the health services
- NHS Cancer Screening Programme
- Quality Assurance Reference Centres
- Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service
They offer international consultancy in many of these areas.
- Company Name: Genomics England
Website: https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/
Company profile: A vital part of research into cancer is learning about the genetic mutations that can lead to developing cancer.
Genomics England has been created by the UK Government to lead this work. They have analysed the complete sequence of over 100,000 genomes from over 70,000 patients in the NHS. Genomics England have a large number of international research collaborations and are a helping to deliver Genomic Medicine Service in partnership with NHSE.
- Company Name: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Website: https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk
Company profile: The Royal Marsden is a world-leading cancer centre specialising in diagnosis, treatment, research and education. Together with the Institute of Cancer Research, they are ranked in the top five centres in the world for the impact of their research, conducting over 900 trials a year. They also offer a full genetic service which include familial cancer risk assessment, diagnostic genetic testing, predictive genetic testing, advice and referral for cancer screening, discussion of cancer risk-reducing management options, and more.
- Company Name: Cancer Research UK
Website: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/
Company profile: Cancer Research UK is the world's largest charitable funder of cancer research. Their work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives. Its ambition is to accelerate progress so that by 2034, 3 in 4 people will survive their cancer for at least 10 years.Together with its partners and supporters, CRUK's vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. It has exclusive rights to IP arising from its funding; abiraterone, olaparib, rucaparib and temozolomide are among the marketed drugs that have come from the CRUK network. Reflecting the breadth and depth of its scientific and clinical activities, CRUK pursues partnerships with industry under a wide a variety of traditional and innovative models. From single and multi-party collaborations around cutting-edge basic research or drug discovery, to novel single agent, combination and biomarker-driven clinical initiatives, it seeks to maximise the benefit of its research to cancer patients around the world. CRUK is seeking corporate partners with complimentary goals and expertise in order to leverage its intellectual resources, infrastructure and funding for mutual benefit.
Clinical Services:
- Company Name: Universal College London Hospitals NHS Trust
Website: http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) Cancer is a world leading cancer centre within one of the UK’s leading NHS trusts. It has close links to it’s academic partner, UCL, ranked first in the UK for research power in the Research Excellence Framework. UCLH is a National Leader and was designated a cancer vanguard with the Christie and Royal Marsden Hospitals in 2015. They have subsequently developed a programme to deliver health system improvements to the 10 million people covered by the vanguard.
- Company Name: The Christie’s NHS Foundation Trust
Website: www.christie.nhs.uk/international
Company profile: The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is an integral part of Manchester’s proud life science heritage. As Europe’s largest and most technologically advanced single-site cancer centre, The Christie has a proven track record of clinical excellence, building on more than 100 years of cancer treatment innovation. As the first NHS organisation accredited as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI), they have been consistently rated outstanding by independent UK accreditation bodies. Through its international partnerships, The Christie offers advice and assurance across a wide range of specialisms to establish safe, sustainable and state of the art cancer treatments. In radiotherapy, partners can access wide-ranging expertise. The Christie is one of only a few centres globally providing MR guided radiotherapy, high energy proton beam therapy, and comprehensive brachytherapy / molecular radiotherapy to its patients.
- Company Name: Cancer Care Commission
Website: http://www.cancercarecommission.com/
Company profile: The Cancer Care Commission help create local services by:
- Accreditation of cancer services from world class secondary and tertiary facilities
- Best in class service benchmarking against global standards
- Access to world class oncology consultancy team and experts to truly “turn around” your cancer care division
- Validated standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and treatment protocols
- Validated accreditation system
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Second opinion and referral to Oxford Faculty
- Wholly Owned Foreign Entity established in Beijing
- Company Name: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Website: https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/
Company profile: The Royal Marsden The world's first hospital dedicated to cancer diagnosis, treatment, research and education.
Today it is a centre of excellence with an international reputation for ground breaking research and pioneering the very latest in cancer treatments and technologies, as well as specialising in cancer diagnosis and education. It operates as a specialist cancer hospital and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Cancer, working closely with its principal academic partner, the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). Together, The Royal Marsden and the ICR are ranked in the top five cancer centres in the world for the impact of their research, treating over 59,000 NHS and private patients every year.
International Private Patient and second opinion services:
- Company Name: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
Website: http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/
Company profile: GOSH is the largest children’s cancer unit in the UK, seeing 28% of all UK cases, and has one of the largest cohorts of childhood cancer patients in the world. GOSH offers a multidisciplinary team approach to palliative care, with clinical, psychosocial and research teams working together.
- Company Name: Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Website: www.christie.nhs.uk/international
Company profile: The Paediatric Oncology unit delivers care in a fully integrated ward in the 'Children's Hospital in the Park'. They have a global reputation and attract a stream of national and international referrals with neurosurgery being the core of the international patient program.
- Company Name: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Website: www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/international
Company profile: The Royal Marsden offers the latest cancer treatments often not available elsewhere. They also offer cancer genetics, clinical trials, drug development, diagnostics, symptom control, critical care and support from a dedicated international team.