The University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) have linked up to launch a new centre for the development of health technology. The Leeds Centre for HealthTech Innovation is one of three initiatives that have been announced to support the development of novel ideas ‘from the point […]
Month: September 2021
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland updates plans for its £300m Encompass programme
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland has provided an update on its ‘Encompass’ programme, a £300m 10-year work-stream to deliver a new electronic patient record for five trusts. The contract for the programme was signed in June 2020 to implement the Epic electronic patient record, develop its infrastructure and create up […]
Video: Kettering General Hospital opens HTN Now focusing on AI patient flow and bed management
To open HTN Now September 2021, we invited Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the AI and machine learning specialists at Faculty, to raise the curtain on our latest online event with a session on their new AI bed management programme. The project, backed by NHSX, is still in […]
CEO Series: Janelle Holmes, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Next up in our CEO Series – and as part of our planned content for HTN Now September 2021 – we put the spotlight on Janelle Holmes, Chief Executive Officer at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In this feature we find out how Janelle, formerly a nurse, rose […]
Barts Health implements new app to support people with cognitive impairment
Barts Health NHS Trust, UCLPartners and Maldaba have rolled-out a new app to support people with cognitive impairment, specifically adults with a learning disability. The ‘Hear Me Now’ app and content-sharing remote service can be used to record information such as text, photo, audio, or video which is then stored in ‘boxes’ in the […]
Alder Hey enters co-partnership with NeedleSmart
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has entered into a co-development partnership with NeedleSmart, a specialist solution to needle safety and closed loop data. The partnership will see the development of the company’s hardware and data solutions accelerated, aiming to bring forward the solutions into healthcare. Consisting of three phases, […]
Interview Series: Professor John Sharry of SilverCloud discusses digital mental health tools
HTN continues its exploration of digital mental health by talking to SilverCloud’s Co-Founder and Clinical Director, Professor John Sharry, about his interest in children and young people’s mental health (CYP) and what the future could have in store for the entire sector, as it continues to expand. A psychotherapist and […]
AccuRx raises £27.5 million
AccuRx, a health-tech company focused on ‘bringing together everyone involved in a patient’s care’ has raised £27.5 million in Series B funding. The company announced the news this week, with plans for the funding to be used to ‘build a patient-centred communication platform for the healthcare system’. Supported by Lakestar, a […]
News in Brief: rapid sensors detect wound infections in Scotland, 1,000 mums register for digital maternity service, HDR UK announces Global Research Director
Welcome to our latest news in brief, where we round-up some of the most interesting news stories impacting the health tech sector at the moment. It’s set to be a busy few days, as our HTN Now September 2021 event, which takes place over four days from 20 to 23 […]
4 days of health tech, HTN Now takes place next week
We’re only a few days away from the next edition in the HTN Health Tech for the Now series, when we welcome a fantastic group of people joining us to share their learnings and advice, as we delve into their digital programmes. There’s still time to register, with tickets free […]
