The NHS, Birmingham City Council and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council have worked together to develop a draft Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). The plan sets out how they will improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Birmingham and Solihull. The Plan can be found here: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/downloads/download/1008/birmingham_and_solihull_sustainability_and_transformation_plan
Month: October 2016
Cleardata invests in production to digitise 18 million documents for Virgin Care
Two new business wins with a combined value of £1 million, including a contract to digitise 18 million documents for Virgin Care, prompted Cleardata to boost its production armoury and invest in two new Kodak i5850S Scanners. Cleardata is the largest single-site user of Kodak Alaris scanners in the UK. […]
Huge time saving made by Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Over 2 years on after deployment, Shaun Fieldhouse — Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Practitioner at Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust reflects on the benefits realised following deployment of TPP SystmOne Community. KEY BENEFITS – The Numbers Efficiency An electronic platform which released approximately 7,587 staff hours per year to focus greater staff […]
Pharmacy Integration Fund of £42 million announced
A £42m Pharmacy Integration Fund (PhIF) to support pharmacy to transform how it operates across the NHS has been launched. The Pharmacy Integration Fund will support community pharmacy as it develops new clinical pharmacy services, working practices and digital platforms to meet the public’s expectations for a modern NHS community […]
Online Patient Data – the growing security imperative
By Jeannie Warner, WhiteHat Security. In recent years the amount of personal medical information going online has exploded, thanks to connected digital healthcare ecosystems that improve the ability of providers and patients to access information and communicate. No one doubts these solutions make more efficient and cost-effective healthcare possible, but […]
Twitter @nhs launched
NHS England has launched https://twitter.com/nhs A UK first, @NHS will see a different NHS patient or member of its 1.3 million staff become curator each week over a three month pilot and report first hand their experiences of the health service. @NHS curators will have sole control of the account […]
A closer look at the Connecting Care local record
The award winning Connecting Care local record (Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset) aims to provide a shared local patient-centric record to support patient care. The patient summary can be accessed by health and social care across their locality (Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset) and includes details from GPs, information […]
New Continuing Healthcare online system enables more cost-effective purchasing
Valuing Care has launched a new online ‘Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Cost Toolkit’ to help commissioners manage and purchase better, more cost-effective CHC placements. This online system enables CHC placements to be commissioned in the most cost effective manner. Based on Valuing Care’s cost models and data built up from 10 […]
NHS England: Mental health digital innovators to apply for new £400k fund
NHS England has launched a new fund to find six to eight innovators to take part in the Digital Development Lab being delivered by mHabitat. The technology that must improve people’s mental health can now apply for a piece of a £400k fund to speed up adoption of their technology. […]
iPLATO and myGP™ supports flu immunisation programme
For the first time ever, GP surgeries can use innovative appointment booking technology to launch their winter flu immunisation programme to increase patient uptake resulting in greater cost-efficiencies and revenue streams for individual practices. Developed by London-based health-tech specialist iPLATO, the newly enhanced myGP app is being launched to coincide […]
