Sunderland City Council is the first local authority in the North East and North Cumbria area to connect to the health information exchange across the region. 400 GP practices, five NHS trusts and the North East Ambulance Service are connected to the system, with Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust being […]
Month: March 2021
NHS appoints Transformation Directorate lead
NHS England and NHS Improvement have appointed Dr Timothy Ferris as director of transformation, to lead the organisation’s new Transformation Directorate. The new directorate brings the Improvement programme within NHSE, leading on outpatient transformation programmes, together with digital teams from NHSX. One of the reasons behind the two units joining […]
Radar Healthcare achieves compliance with national Patient Safety Incident Management system
A new national Patient Safety Incident Management system (PSIMS) is planned to be introduced in Spring 2021. Ahead of the launch of the system, Radar Healthcare has passed compliance testing with NHS Improvement. The new system from NHS Improvement will be introduced to replace the current National Reporting and Learning […]
New digital strategy for Wales launched
A new policy and strategy document for Wales has been published to provide a direction and vision for the country to fully embrace digital. The strategy outlines how the country will use digital, data and technology to improve the lives of people in Wales. It is aimed at anyone creating, designing, providing […]
Wales to invest over £8.5m in new national digital eye care patient record
Wales is set to invest over £8.5 million in its first national Electronic Patient Record and digital Electronic Referral system for eye care. As part of wider plans surrounding Wales’ future approach to optometry services, the nation is focusing on preventative measures, along with management and treatment by primary care […]
Digital innovation and online COVID learning celebrated at Our Health Heroes
Our Health Heroes, the health awards led by Skills for Health, celebrated nationwide achievements at their fifth awards ceremony last night. It took place on the National Day of Reflection, which marked a year since the first UK COVID-19 lockdown. Award winners included many ‘unsung heroes’ in the healthcare sector, […]
New tech to detect COVID mutations being trialled by UK Gov
The UK Government is trialling new technology to help ‘rapidly detect’ COVID mutations and shorten the time between identification and tracing. Taking place in NHS Test and Trace laboratories, the technology – called ‘genotype assay testing’ – could help with: Identifying mutations Rapid turnaround times to help trace contacts of […]
National digital midwife role launched
NHSX has launched a new position to recruit a digital midwife to support its strategy at a regional and national level. It’s aimed at a registered midwife with data management and informatics skills, to support health and care services to improve the outcomes for pregnant women and address health inequalities. […]
Join us live in three weeks’ time for HTN Now April
In three weeks’ time, HTN Now is back for another series of engaging, practical and insightful sessions where we welcome leaders from across health and care to share their work. Join us for 13 sessions, features and video interviews from 13-16 April, where we cover a range of subject areas […]
Confidence in data published on PHE COVID-19 dashboard increases from 47% to 90%
In March 2020, Public Health England (PHE) published an interactive dashboard to highlight the spread of COVID-19 and an overview of the pandemic situation as it changed. More recently, it also provided the ability to track vaccination-related data. The dashboard has been widely used, PHE said, highlighting that ‘during the […]
