Assistive AI Updates

The Portsmouth Enablement Centre, which is run by Steeper Group in partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals University (PHU) NHS Trust, is helping people with limb loss gain independence and confidence by creating bespoke prosthetic limbs. A specialist team at the centre works with patients to personalise the design and finish of patients’ prosthetic devices. Patients…

Hearing device jewellery brand Deafmetal is being honoured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for its new exhibition, Design and Disability, which celebrates the radical contributions of disabled, deaf, and neurodiverse creatives to global design culture. The Design and Disability exhibition at the V&A runs through 2025. Deafmetal says its inclusion marks…

Cumberland Council has bought four WashPod temporary wetrooms for disabled people from Dignity Access, using funding awarded by the local Health & Wellbeing Board for hospital discharge. The LA Discharge Fund is part of the Better Care Funding grant stream and has allowed the purchase of two Internal Mini WashPods and two Internal Compact WashPods. These self-contained innovative units…

The World Health Organization (WHO) is organising an open online consultation in Europe to inform the update of the WHO Assistive Products Priority List (APL). The APL is a model list, which was first published in 2016. It supports WHO Member States in strengthening access to assistive products through the establishment of national priority…