The Digital Productivity programme from NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has shared its delivery plans going forward, along with the key areas of focus over the past year. Robot process automation (RPA) Overall, the programme aims to improve RPA capability across as many NHS services as possible by 2024. Present work […]
Month: December 2022
Feature: Inhealthcare on how their innovation-friendly platform delivers care at home to free up hospital beds
By Bryn Sage, CEO of Inhealthcare and a member of industry group techUK’s health and social care council. In a telling insight into his attitude to NHS spending, the new Health and Social Care Secretary has told local areas they will be free to determine how they speed up the […]
Scotland Digital Healthcare publishes 2023 delivery plan
Digital Health and Care Scotland has published a national delivery plan for the year ahead, describing how digital activities are to support health and care services. The plan follows the publication of its strategy ‘Care in the Digital Age’ (October 2021), which focused on the “widespread use of digital solutions” […]
MedTech funding programme paused for new entrants
NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative has confirmed that no new technologies will join its MedTech funding mandate for 2023/24. The programme launched in 2021 to accelerate the uptake of selected innovative medical devices, diagnostics and digital products, and support the adoption of these technologies. To date the programme has supported 11 […]
Clinical artificial intelligence fellowship opens for applications
Health Education England and the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare have opened applications to the Fellowships in Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme. The programme aims to support medical and dental trainees to develop their expertise in clinical AI in an integrated pathway alongside their specialty training. It hopes to support […]
Northamptonshire ICS shares update on Elective Care Collaborative
Northamptonshire ICS has shared an update on their work to develop the Integrated Care Northamptonshire Elective Care Collaborative, bringing together the organisations involved in planning care with the aim of improving health outcomes through working together in a patient-centred approach. This will be achieved through transforming service delivery to focus on […]
Black Country Pathology Services adopts ‘big bang’ laboratory information system deployment
Black Country Pathology Services has taken a ‘big bang‘ approach to upgrade the laboratory information system and order communications and results reporting at its Dudley Lab. The service has built a pathology hub in Wolverhampton and developed four essential services laboratories at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS […]
HTN Now: Dr Andrew Whiteley on supporting Citizen Access
For HTN Now: Citizen Transformation, we interviewed Dr Andrew Whiteley, Managing Director of Lexacom, to find out more about Lexacom’s role in primary care and how they support the Citizen Access programme through their digital dictation and speech recognition software. On Lexacom’s beginnings We go back to the mid 1990s, […]
NHSE Chief Commercial Officer “collaboration with suppliers is critical to delivering more value”
Jacqui Rock, Chief Commercial Officer for NHS England, has published a blog on how collaboration with suppliers is “critical to delivering more value and efficiencies for taxpayers”. Highlighting that the NHS procures over £30 billion of goods and services each year from over 80,000 suppliers, she adds that she has […]
Care homes connect to London Care Record
Nine care homes in North East London have connected to the London Care Record, to provide access to information on allergies, test results and care plans as well as GP data and hospital discharge summaries. The London Care Record brings together local sharing systems from each of London’s five Integrated Care Systems, […]
