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NHS Highland launches VR headsets to help patients prep for MRI scans

Patients will be given a virtual MRI experience using virtual reality headsets in a bid to reduce the number of
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Virtual reality for stroke patients one step closer thanks to £400k funding

The Countess of Chester Hospital and University of Chester will explore how VR can help patients practice and relearn daily
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Alder Hey surgeons get hands-on with Microsoft’s mixed reality tech

Microsoft HoloLens is being introduced to operating theatres in a bid to make more patient information available to surgeons during
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Royal Free help organise ‘hackathon’ to develop VR tools for patients

Researchers from the trust worked together to coordinate the UK Hackathon on 4 and 5 July 2018 at Brunel University
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Sweet dreams are made of this: Using virtual reality to improve mental health

Can devices such as the ‘Dream Machine’ improve mental health? Shreshtha Trivedi sits down for a chat with inventor and
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How VR and AR could transform the health sector

Anna Knack of RAND Europe looks at how virtual reality and augmented reality could transform the healthcare sector, from improving
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NIHR awards £4m to development of virtual reality treatments from NHS

The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) has awarded £4 million to the development of virtual reality (VR) treatments from
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London surgeons using Microsoft mixed reality tech for safer operations

Surgeons in London are using Microsoft HoloLens to look inside patients before they operate on them, in an effort to
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Where is the business case for medical VR?

Todd Richmond, member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and director of the mixed reality lab at
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Virtual reality connects surgeons from across the globe

Virtual reality has helped surgeons from across the world jointly operate together on a bowel cancer patient at The Royal
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