NHS Digital has announced the successful organisations bidding for a share of £1.4m to help digitise their assessment, discharge and withdrawal (ADW) notices. The successful local authority-led partnerships are: Dorset, Hackney, Lancashire, Wirral, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire and Rotherham. James Palmer, Programme Head for the Social Care programme at NHS Digital, said: “This […]
Month: March 2018
The Edinburgh Clinic becomes first private clinic in Scotland to offer pioneering eye surgery
The Edinburgh Clinic, one of Scotland’s leading private day-case hospitals, has become the first Scottish private healthcare facility to offer the CyPass Micro-Stent for glaucoma treatment. One of the most common causes of irreversible blindness, glaucoma affects 2% of Scots aged over 40 and is the name given to a […]
NHS Digital launches ‘just referrals’ campaign set to save £50m
NHS Digital has launched the ‘Just e-Referrals’ campaign to help support trusts as they prepare to hit the target of digital referrals and reduce eight million outpatient appointments that patients didn’t attend (2016/17). All first outpatients’ referrals will have to be made electronically from later this year in a move […]
Care Quality Commission investigates the private online market
The Care Quality Commission has been investigating the private online market over the past 18 months and has identified 35 companies running services in England. Recently the BBC reported of which 13 were found to breach safety standards and 5 had stopped trading following the launch of the investigation by […]
New research highlights 63% concerned with cybersecurity costs
New research from Centrify in a study of 800 senior level executives, including CEOs, Technical Officers and CFOs in the UK and US, has indicated that there is confusion among the C-suite about what constitutes a cybersecurity risk and what needs to be done to prevent it. In the UK, malware […]
Insignia links Colchester with trusts across Essex and Suffolk
Insignia Medical Systems has deployed its InSight PACS system at Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, providing a single trust and breast screening system for the region for the first time. The successful go-live took place in early December following the migration of over 181 million images within 2.7 million […]
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland to launch a new mobile app
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) is to launch a new mobile app helping trainee clinicians take control of their learning experience to become world-class physicians, marking a key milestone in our digital transformation partnership. The app is already empowering busy medics to keep on top of their […]
Great North Care Record accessed 25,000 times a month
The Great North Care Record, a collaboration between the £20m government funded Connected Health Cities programme and local NHS providers, is a new, more efficient way of sharing care information electronically across the region between authorised healthcare practitioners with the patient’s permission. The Record is accessed around 25,000 times every […]
HTN March 2018 Newsletter
In March we announced a new podcast series has been launched to share innovations in primary care. We covered an opinion piece from Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper and Dash: Are you provisioning for the Cloud? We announced 9 new categories in the HTN Awards 2018 including user-led innovation, information and data security and software […]
£10million invested in practices to support eReferral roll-out
A new GP contract, agreed by NHS England, the Government and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee, will take effect from 01 April 2018 and will see an investment of £256.3 million going into the contract for 2018/19, a 3.4% increase overall. This includes £60 million to be paid to […]
