Hi friends,

This week: AI, IVF, and a robotic NHS.

News Bites 🥪

🚨 Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not - Three succinct, uncomfortable, and important points.

🤖 Sunak tells NHS to embrace robots as it prepares to sack staff (£)- Hey everybody! Look, look! I found it - the worst take of 2022! Wow! It’s beautifully bad.*

💬 No, AI will not transform healthcare? - A Pigeon revisit. In the week the world went Chat GPT mad, is AI the future of healthcare? Dr Ashwin Sharma thinks we should all calm down.

🧑‍💼How an ageing population will change health care - The next generation to retire is predicted to be the longest-living in human history, but they’re also the most tech-savvy. How can tech play a part in their care?

🌱 November’s hottest seed rounds - That makes it three months in a row we’ve beaten Fintech, which is now 4th. Never going to let this go, stop asking.

📆 ImVitro raises $2.5 million to maximise IVF success rates - Deeptech ImVitro's platform is using computer vision and AI to help clinics help more individuals.

🏙 First four regional secure data environments confirmed - Beneath the dull title, this is a real step forward for the data saves lives policy being implemented.

🦯 WeWalk raises for smart cane for visually impaired people - GPS enabled walking sticks could be the future for visually impaired people.

Events 🔊

🏥 DTAC Drop In Clinic - DTAC got you down in the dumps? Pop on down to Acorn Compliance’s DTAC drop-in clinic for an instant sense of instant relief - the healthtech equivalent of a Rennie after Christmas lunch.

What to listen to 🔊

🏃 The Long Run - Shehnaaz Suliman on Delivery of Genetic Medicines - The Long Run only drops monthly, but it’s always an instant listen over here when it does.

🔊 Is healthtech recession proof? - You’ve just read it, now hear it, in glorious Dolby Surround Sound. If you have Dolby Surround Sound. If you don’t, you’ll just hear it normally.

Opportunities 🕵️‍♀️

👷 Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer, entia - Entia sounds like a small town in northern Italy famed for olives, delicate foccacia, and slow living. But it’s not. It’s a cancer treatment startup that’s hiring. Put the foccacia down and get applying, amico.

🧑‍💼 Business Development Lead, Isla - ‘Business Development’ is 2014 for ‘Sales’. Remember the sales acronym - Sales Are Dope, Never Ever Stop Selling. I’m damaged.

*Want to know why Pigeon thinks this? Listen to the Healthtech Pigeon podcast for more detail.