The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded more than £215,000 to purchase a new cutting-edge 4D cardiac ultrasound machine, which will expand scope and innovation of clinical research at the hospital.

The University of Birmingham, Dexter and Cegedim Health Data have partnered in a trial of a new approach that automates finding and recruiting patients for randomised clinical trials and evaluates a specific intervention to improve the uptake of testing for type 2 diabetes amongst women at risk of the disease.