Leeds Teaching Hospitals has implemented a new digital way to ensure patients’ wishes about their care in an emergency are known, shared and respected. Clinical teams now have digital access to the agreed outcomes of conversations about vital aspects of care, including resuscitation and end of life care, as well […]
Month: May 2018
HTN May Newsletter
In our latest newsletter we cover some of the news we published this month, remember if you have a story please get in touch to news@thehtn.co.uk. We are now weeks away from the deadline for the HTN Awards 2018 and we are excited to have recently launched HTN Digital Week. […]
Manchester team transforms physiotherapy through games technology
A team at Trafford Hospital is transforming the way shoulder surgery patients receive physiotherapy, by using a series of personalised computer video games to help patients exercise and track their recovery progress at home. The Virtual Physiotherapy (ViP) project aims to improve patient experience while also making physiotherapy programmes more […]
HTN Digital Week Call for Proposals
The HTN Call for Proposals process is now open and closes in the next few weeks. We would like to see if you would be interested in participating in HTN Digital Week by delivering an online webinar presentation, sharing a white paper, proposal, podcast or ebook. Our Call for Proposals […]
Surrey Care Record announced
Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership together with NHS East Surrey Clinical Commissioning Group has today announced the Surrey Care Record. The Surrey Care Record will see some GP records being made available to professionals within the A&E departments of their four local hospital trusts – St Peter’s, Royal Surrey, Epsom and […]
New local health and care exemplars selected
New partnerships will be introduced across Greater Manchester, Wessex and One London giving health and care staff better and faster access to vital information about the person in their care, so they can determine the right action as quickly as possible, whether that is urgent tests or a referral to a specialist. At the […]
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh chooses Agfa
Agfa has announced that the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has implemented Agfa’s DR Retrofit direct radiography (DR) solutions at three of its sites. The company said about 80% of the computed radiography (CR) equipment has been replaced as part of a realignment and modernisation project for the […]
4 new areas join NHS England’s integrated care development programme
NHS England chief Simon Stevens and Ian Dalton, head of NHS Improvement, have called on the NHS to ‘supercharge’ integration as Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, Suffolk and North East Essex and North Cumbria will join the ten areas already part of the integrated care development programme. The announcement said […]
NHS launches public data opt-out campaign
Following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force in the UK, giving the public more control over how their personal information is used and the Government has also introduced a new national data opt-out, which offers people a choice on whether their confidential patient information is used for […]
Patientrack to help NHS trusts adopt NEWS2 more quickly
NHS hospitals using Patientrack electronic observations technology are now drawing on the system to help them to comply with a new national early warning score known as NEWS2. Central NHS bodies, which have mandated adoption, believe NEWS2 will help to improve the identification and management of sepsis and other serious […]
