A text message reminder service at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hearing Service has launched with an aim to reduce missed appointments. The trust said the reminder service is being introduced to tackle “on average one in five patients missing their appointments without informing the service in advance”. The trust also […]
Month: September 2022
Interview: Philip Branford and Julia Antcliffe at Sheffield Children’s NHS on the role of digital for sustainability
For the next interview in our digital sustainability series, we spoke to Philip Branford (Environmental and Sustainability Officer) and Julia Antcliffe (Lead Nurse for Digital Technology) at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. We discussed their green plan, some digital projects, digital for patients, and their thoughts on the future. Here’s […]
Manchester University NHS gets ready for EPR go live
Manchester University NHS FT is to go live with its Epic electronic patient record system this week. Ahead of a planned go-live for 8th September, the trust has released a ‘Get Ready for Go Live’ video (below), with staff sharing their advice and paying tribute to the efforts of staff involved. […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ uses virtual reality for surgical training
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has taken to virtual reality technology to help prepare and train its surgeons of the future. The simulation tech allows trainees to practice and develop their surgical skills before they go into a real operating theatre. Trainees create an avatar and are transported into a […]
Sussex ICS awards pilot extension for community diagnostic pathway tech
Feedback, a provider of digital infrastructure to facilitate patient specific pathways between primary and secondary care, has been awarded a 12 month extension of an initial pilot with Sussex Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System. The pilot aimed to support community diagnostic centres establish “symptom-based pathway models” using Feedback’s digital infrastructure […]
Interview: Sam Jackson and Kezia Marshall at Hampshire Hospitals on digital champions
For our latest interview we spoke to Sam Jackson, Clinical Services Manager for the Virtual Health Hub, and Kezia Marshall, Improvement Project Manager at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Topics of conversation included digital champions, their individual work, challenges, successes, and more. Here’s what they both had to say… Projects […]
Coventry and Warwickshire tackle waiting lists with text message initiative
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has launched a new initiative with an aim to reduce waiting times for elective care. The trust is sending patients on its waiting list at University Hospital, Coventry or the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby a short survey by text message or postal […]
NHS CEO to join health tech company
Caroline Shaw CBE, the chief executive officer at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS FT is to join health tech supplier Evergreen Life this month. Following leading the trust out of ‘special measures’ Caroline is set to join the health and wellbeing company as chief operating officer. The company […]
Humber and North Yorkshire ICS launches accessing appointments communication campaign
Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has launched a communication campaign to support patients with accessing new appointment methods and to understand the digital options. The integrated care system outpatient transformation programme has produced two animations to help explain what patient initiated follow ups are and to describe how […]
News in Brief: Leeds pilots remote monitoring tech, NatWest introduces health app, ambulance trusts trial electric vehicles, AI to detect Parkinson’s
Our latest news-in-brief is here! In the latest edition we cover a pilot of remote monitoring tech at Leeds Teaching, AI to detect Parkinson’s, digital check-in kiosks at Lewisham and Greenwich, and the NatWest Group has introduced a menopause app for employees. NatWest Group introduces menopause app for employees NatWest Group has […]
