English uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) medical services startup Apian is overseeing yet another series of UK tests transporting medical supplies to remote destinations – this time aiming to trial drone deliveries of chemotherapy treatments to the Isle of Wight.

London-based Apian has teamed up with the UK National Health System’s (NHS) local administration on the Isle of Wight to begin exploratory tests spanning September through November. If initial results come back positive, the plan is to begin trial flights of drones to deliver chemotherapy medicines to cancer patients on the island. Should those take place, they’d mark the world’s first every delivery of chemotherapy supplies by UAV.

That aerial experimentation is far from the first in the UK. In response to both transport disruptions and the urgent demand for medical supplies created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the NHS has repeatedly trialed – and often adopted – drone delivery options to more…

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Source: dronedj.com