A funding initiative by NHS England’s Transformation Directorate (formerly NHSX), called the Digital Health Partnership Award, has announced the winners of phase two of the programme.
The Award helps NHS organisations in England bid for funding to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies that support patients at home. In the second phase, £5,518,492 has been awarded to 27 projects.
The lead NHS organisation for the winning projects include:
- OneNorwich Practices, using technology to ensure that every child and their family has a personalised asthma action plan, to reduce avoidable hospital admissions for children and young people at high risk of asthma attacks.
- Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, implementing secure video sharing platform to support young people with epilepsy, allowing patients and clinicians to upload easy-to-access content, improving monitoring and assessment of epilepsy development.
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, supporting Crohn’s and Colitis biologic patients to take more ownership of their health and wellbeing and improve adherence in their treatment by integrating an Injection Care Management System into existing clinical pathways.
- Barts Health NHS Trust, embedding an evidence-based app into their physical activity care pathway to analyse user health, fitness and disease status, prescribing personalised programmes to promote self-care for obesity.
- Portsmouth University Hospitals Trust, using digital health to transform outpatient care of people with Chronic Kidney Disease by scaling the use of MyRenalCare™ solution within the Wessex Kidney Centre, promoting supported self-care.
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Foundation Trust, using mobile platform solutions to reduce avoidable hospital admissions in children and young people at high risk of asthma attack, who live in the most impoverished parts of the region.
- Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust, implementing a bespoke Cardiac Home Monitoring programme to enable real-time recording, reporting and statistical display of patient’s status to promote a proactive and preventative model of care.
- Oxford Academic Health Science Network, delivering a system to aid in the diagnosis and classification of epilepsy by using automated technology to identify and recognise visual cues and subtle behaviours.
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, delivering a project to remotely manage wound care at home to help patients avoid unnecessary journeys to hospital and share images for assessment with clinicians.
- Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust, working on the next generation of remote monitoring technology to observe patients at caseload level and proactively prioritise those who need to be seen.
- NEL CCG – Digital First Programme, delivering a free digital asthma self-management tool across the 42 ICS regions of England to help improve outcomes for hundreds of thousands of children and young people.
- Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, implementing an automatic and real-time monitoring service for patients requiring frequent or constant monitoring of vital signs, both in hospital and at home.
- Barts Health NHS Trust, aiming to improve obesity care by providing patients with self-management support via remotely monitored exercise plans.
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, providing the first end-to-end Digital Heart Failure Pathway with services including virtual wards, patient self-care and early supported discharge.
- Canvey Island PCN, scaling its current remote monitoring schemes as part of a wider plan to improve digital health services for people with long-term conditions.
- Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership, providing an accessible and convenient alternative to face-to-face education in order to increase confidence of patients self-managing their diabetes.
- North Staffordshire CCG, aiming to scale up pulmonary rehabilitation in virtual reality to serve the needs of patients living with long term respiratory conditions.
- Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust, using AI to remotely support patients from home who have had an initial skin cancer diagnosis.
- Symphony Healthcare Services, expanding the scope of their existing remote monitoring for asthma to include COPD, diabetes, SMI and hypertension by improving self-management support.
- London Central & West UCC, implementing the NeUro app to provide earlier detection of UTIs and improve access to urgent and emergency services.
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, developing a new digital care pathway for Falls Prevention patients, as a means of communication with other patients to provide mental health and support, and to share evidence-based education and exercise.
- Oxford University Hospital Foundation Trust, providing an innovative technological solution to address the challenge of patient follow-up after catheter ablation.
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, implementing a digital wound care management system for lower limb wounds to provide more consistent wound assessment, more accurate tracking of essential characteristics, and improved visual tracking through standardised and enhanced imagery.
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, delivering self-management support and clinical expertise to patients with Parkinson’s disease in their own homes via wrist-worn sensors.
- St George’s University NHS Foundation Trust, deploying a condition-specific mobile app to support Inflammatory Bowel Disease to help address elective recovery challenges and enhance care provided.
- University Hospitals of Leicester, implementing a Virtual Atrial Fibrillation Ward to provide close monitoring of patients who are clinically stable with a primary diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, so that they can be treated in their own homes.
- Digital First team and primary care within North Central London, using a population health management approach to identify and offer holistic remote support for patients’ mental and physical wellbeing, whilst on the referral list for specialist care in trauma and orthopaedics, dermatology and gynaecology.
More information about the projects can be found here.
