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Charity Launches University Grants For Bereaved Healthcare Worker Children

Stuart Mitchell

More than 1,500 NHS and care workers have died from COVID-19 on the UK frontlines since the start of the pandemic, leaving behind grieving families, spouses and children. The sudden loss of a loved one is a tragedy in the best of times, leaving families struggling not just emotionally, but financially as well. The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), founded by NHS workers and their families in March 2020, knew all too well the fear and worry of having a loved one in the COVID firing line. This spurred the charity…

The John Lewis Partnership will donate four million healthy snacks to help feed children and families in need this summer

Stuart Mitchell

With up to three million children at risk of going hungry over the school holidays, the John Lewis Partnership has unveiled a number of initiatives to help families in need this summer. Specifically, they will be: Working with FareShare and Waitrose farmers and suppliers to provide 4 million healthy snacks over the summer to more than 3000 charities and local organisations across the UK, many of which will be part of the government’s Holiday Activities and Food Programme. Making an annual donation of £200k to the Trussell Trust, which will…

Johnson & Johnson Releases 2020 Health for Humanity Report Highlighting Performance and Progress on Environmental, Social and Governance Priorities

Stuart Mitchell

Johnson & Johnson has published the 2020 Health for Humanity Report (Report), which serves as the Company’s annual disclosure on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and illustrates progress toward fulfilling its corporate purpose to change the trajectory of health for humanity. The Report documents the Company’s performance and provides information on how the Company generates long-term social, environmental and economic value for all stakeholders; provides an accounting of the final year of progress against the Johnson & Johnson Health for Humanity 2020 Goals and U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Commitment; and…

FCB Inferno’s motivational campaign returns with a new inspiring cast to help those with a health condition to be active

Stuart Mitchell

We Are Undefeatable is the campaign led by a collaboration of 16 leading health and social care charities, along with national lottery funding and expertise from Sport England, to support and inspire some of the 43% of people in England who live with a health condition to be active in a way that works for them. One of the campaign’s key messages is to make those with long-term health conditions aware that all forms of exercise count, no matter with who, where or how. Bringing this message to life, FCB…

Atos and Huma enter into five-year partnership to improve healthcare and research with innovative remote monitoring technologies

Stuart Mitchell

Atos and Huma, the digital health innovator, have announced a 5-year strategic global partnership to shift healthcare and clinical trials from hospital to home. The partnership will focus on Huma’s modular platform which can power digital ‘hospitals at home’ up to national scale, as well as support pharmaceutical and research industries to run complex global decentralized clinical trials. The platform is already used in the US and across Europe for illnesses ranging from atrial fibrillation to diabetes to Covid-19. Atos will use its experience in implementing and scaling complex transformation…