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  • Liverpool 5G brings ‘Hug Vest’ to Rowan Garth Care Village

    Liverpool 5G has brought the ‘Hug Vest’ use case to Rowan Garth Care Village. The Liverpool 5G team, along with makers CuteCircuit, brought and demonstrated the shirt for care home staff and resident’s family members. Hug Vest is a special shirt worn by a resident in a care home, with haptic technology linked to an…

  • Small Cells World Summit, London, May 2022

    Project Lead Ann Williams, Health and Social Care Authority, has been invited to speak at the Small Cells World Summit in London on Tuesday 24th May. Representing the Liverpool 5G project, Liverpool City Council and the UK5G Advisory Board, Ann will be speaking at the “Enterprise and Industry Requirements” session along with Simon Fletcher of…

  • Telehealth Update

    Peter Almond, of Liverpool 5G partners Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, who is also the Cheshire and Merseyside Remote Monitoring Programme Manager, has sent us an update on their telehealth work: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Telehealth Team are working in partnership with the Liverpool 5G Create Project on two use cases to improve patients…

  • L5G presenting at Digital Healthcare Show

    Project Leads Rosemary Kay & Ann Williams will be presenting the Liverpool 5G Create project at the Digital Healthcare Show at Excel London, on the 18th May 2022. The Digital Healthcare Show, part of Health Plus Care, is one of the most significant and innovative UK events for healthcare professionals looking to revolutionise the NHS…

  • DTX Manchester April 2022

    Rosemary Kay will be speaking on a panel discussion at the Digital Transformation Expo Manchester (DTX) on Wednesday, 27th April. The panel topic is “What does the future look like for enterprise networks?”, moderated by Yasmean Luk, Senior Consultant at STL Partners, and will also feature Catherine Gull, Consultant at Cellnex Telecom & UK5G Board…

  • Connected North 2022

    Ann Williams will be speaking at the Connected North event on Monday, 25th April. The event was launched as a sister event to Connected Britain, and provides an opportunity for the region’s connectivity leaders to come together and explore the most important regional issues around enabling the North’s connected future. With 80 speakers and 500…

  • UK’s 5G Showcase Award Winner!

    Congratulations to Ann Williams, Health & Social Care Authority, Liverpool 5G, & Commissioning and Contracts Manager, Adult Social services, Liverpool City Council, winner of the “Best individual contribution to 5G industry deployment” at the UK’s 5G Showcase Awards last night (22nd March). Well done Ann! – well deserved recognition  

  • Docobo on Virtual Wards & the Liverpool 5G Project

    Liverpool 5G project partners Docobo interviewed Managing Director Adrian Flowerday about Virtual Wards, and the work they’ve done in Liverpool. You can read Adrian’s comments on the need for virtual wards – and clarification on what a virtual ward actually is – in their article here.

  • Liverpool 5G shortlisted for UK’s 5G Showcase Awards 2022

    Liverpool 5G is represented in two categories at the upcoming UK’s 5G Showcase Awards 2022: the Liverpool 5G Create project has been shortlisted for the “Maximum Citizen Impact & Reach” award, and Project Health & Social Care Authority, Ann Williams, is shortlisted for the “Best individual contribution to 5G industry deployment” award. The expert judging…

  • Liverpool 5G Showcase

    Wow – what a day! Liverpool 5G held it’s Showcase in The Spine yesterday, describing and demonstrating everything we’ve been doing. There were lots of people there, both in person and online, and the day was full of lively chat and discussion.   We had a full line up of speakers, including: Professor Joe Spencer,…