Waking Up to Innovation: A Tighter Economic Climate Has the U.K.´s National Health Service Looking for Radical Transformation

John Day is a physicist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. He has an innovation that he believes will not only improve patient care but also save the National Health Service (NHS) time and money. Day and his colleagues have developed an endoscope that can be used not only to look at tissue in the esophagus but also diagnose cancer in situ. This eliminates the need to take a sample and wait for the results, which benefits both the patient and the clinician by allowing for earlier diagnosis.