Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a provider to supply a secure digital patient platform, as outlined in a recent tender notice published by the trust.
With an estimated value of £750,000, the contract is expected to last for a three-year period from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2028 and has the option to extend by 2 x 12 months.
Interested suppliers have been asked to provide key information when submitting their bid, including costs associated with implementation, ongoing support, training and prices for a licence model. They will be assessed based on their ability to meet technical requirements and add social value, with a submission deadline of 25 July 2025. Find out more here.
The need for a secure digital patient platform aligns with the latest aims set out in the Digital Notts strategy, which focuses on the use of digital to support and reshape health and care delivery for the Nottinghamshire region up until 2028. For 2025 in particular, the strategy highlights plans to establish a digital leadership programme, launch digital workforce passports, fully digitise social care, promote the use of remote monitoring and virtual wards and support AI innovation and the integration of AI-driven diagnostics.
Digital patient platforms: the wider trend
Earlier this month, Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership awarded a contract to Patients Know Best for a digital patient portal. With an estimated value of £669,927, the contract is awarded under NHS SBS’s Technology Enabled Care Services 2 framework and covers four acute trusts.
Navigate Health recently announced its acquisition of the Patient.info health information platform as a major step in its mission to build an “accessible, personalised and empowering” future for digital healthcare. The platform offers health advice and conditions management, while also offering digital tools such as a symptom checker with added functionality for professionals, BMI calculator and a patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) for clinicians to monitor the severity of depression.
Last month, Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB introduced the digital end-of-life planning platform, MyWishes across the region in order to improve advance care planning. The website reportedly allows residents to share care plans and preferences for their health, as well as enabling the documentation of end-of-life choices.
For a recent HTN Now webinar, we spoke to experts from across health and care on advancing patient engagement with communication tech and patient portals. Our panellists, discussed adoption, engagement, the use of AI and automation technologies, functionality and the future role of patient portals and communication tech in tackling NHS challenges.
