22 projects will receive funding as a part of the DASA Themed Competition: Veterans’ Health Innovation Fund, run on behalf of the Office for Veterans’ Affairs. Some £5M in funding has been awarded to the projects which improve the techniques and pathways for meeting veterans’ physical and mental health needs. Outputs from ...
Over 100 Defence medical specialists have been providing urgent medical assistance to victims of the earthquake in Turkey through a critical care air support team and at the UK Medical Treatment Facility in Turkoglu. An RAF Critical Care Air Support Team (CCAST) – consisting of one consultant anaesthetist, five nurses, three ...
Defence Online’s Ciara Houghton examines how advances in technology are leading to government’s exploring the military use of nanotechnology. Advancing technology means that important components needed to power products can be made smaller. This includes batteries, aerials, and data storage chips. The first every hard disk drive, invented in 1956, was ...
Royal Navy medics have travelled to the Bahamas to join humanitarian aid efforts following the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. A group of 18 navy medics have joined Royal Fleet Auxillary ship Mounts Bay to provide humanitarian aid in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian. HMS Protector has also ...