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Mayo Clinic Healthcare – the London subsidiary of Mayo Clinic, the American not-for-profit academic medical centre – and the health insurer Bupa have announced a two-year agreement to deliver care to Bupa’s customers. The agreement enables Bupa’s UK health insurance customers to access care at Mayo Clinic Healthcare’s Portland Place facility, including consultations, diagnostics, endoscopy, MRI and CT services. The clinic, which opened in 2020, will also provide a secondary clinical review for Bupa customers who might benefit from CAR-T cell therapy, a pioneering treatment which uses a patient’s own immune system cells to tackle a small number of advanced cancers.

mayoclinichealthcare.co.uk King Edward VII’s Hospital has opened a new outpatient and diagnostic centre. The Kantor Medical Centre, situated opposite the main hospital on Beaumont Street, spans seven floors, offering 28 additional consulting rooms. The centre’s facilities include a 3T MRI, CT scanner, two x-ray facilities, two ultrasound machines and two minor procedure rooms. The ground floor hosts a waiting area and pharmacy, while other floors are dedicated to expanding the hospital’s outpatient services. As well as expanding the hospital’s offering within musculoskeletal, women’s health, urology and digestive health, the Kantor Medical Centre will host centres of excellence in other specialities such as ophthalmology, dermatology and ENT.

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Mayo Clinic Healthcare Green Door Clinic, the specialist mental health clinic, is trialling a revolutionary machine-learning tool that tracks voice changes. Affect.AI – developed by Imperial College students Woochan Hwang and Alice Tang and data scientist Dr Wun Wong – uses machine learning, along with formal assessments made by a clinician, to determine the changing characteristics of an individual’s voice over time. While the symptoms of depression can be hard to recognise, it is known that vocal traits such as pitch and volume can act as biomarkers. The tool can pick up on subtle differences in tone and help clinicians track patients over time by comparing the data with their own baselines.

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Schoen Clinic London has become one of the first UK hospitals to take possession of a set of Microsoft HoloLens smart glasses. The device’s mixed reality capabilities will allow the clinic’s surgeons to connect with remote experts around the world, call up patient data and consult MRI images at the point of care. The smart glasses can be an invaluable tool in the field of orthopaedics thanks to the OptiVu Mixed Reality Solutions platform for orthopaedic surgery, which has been developed by the medical device company Zimmer Biomet in collaboration with Microsoft.

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A new oral and maxillofacial centre of excellence, in which seven leading consultant maxillofacial surgeons work together in a state-of-the-art unit, has opened in the Harley Street Medical Area. Occupying the entire first floor of the new Harley Street Specialist Hospital (HSSH), the Centre for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery contains consulting rooms, an operating theatre, and a suite of diagnostic tools including cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). The team, led by the pioneering oral and maxillofacial surgeon Mr Luke Cascarini, also has access to on-site 3D printing, used in the planning of complex facial reconstruction and the correction of facial deformity.