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Awards, partnerships, pilots and product updates from across the MedAscend team and our institutional partners.

MedAscend Completes the Scottish EDGE Hat-trick with Top Future EDGE Award
MedAscend has been awarded the Future EDGE Award at Scottish EDGE Round 27, completing a hat-trick of Scottish EDGE wins and securing a potential £150,000 funding package to support the next stage of growth.

Human Actors Are Still the Gold Standard. Never-Skilling Is Exactly Why AI Simulation Must Be Designed Carefully.
Nature Medicine warns of AI-induced never-skilling. The answer is not to reject AI in education, but to design simulation that protects clinical reasoning.

Before Institutions Trust an AI Patient, They Should Ask What Sits Behind It
Why the next phase of AI simulation in healthcare education will be judged by reliability, fairness and educational impact, not just realism.

MedAscend named winner at the RBS Accelerator Awards in Edinburgh
MedAscend has been named a winner at the RBS Accelerator Awards 2026 in Edinburgh, recognising our work in scaling clinical communication training across healthcare education.

MedAscend joins the University of Gloucestershire's FutureSim centre
MedAscend will support Nursing, Paramedic and Professional Policing students at Oxstalls Campus as part of the University of Gloucestershire's new FutureSim immersive learning vision.

MedAscend partners with SimuLead for the Middle East & Africa
A new strategic partnership with SimuLead brings MedAscend to universities and healthcare training providers across the Middle East and Africa region.

MedAscend partners with Simulation Collective
A new UK distribution partnership brings MedAscend to universities and NHS organisations through Simulation Collective and the NHS Supply Chain.
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