The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has shared a new plan which will see the NHS expand services aiming to keep the vulnerable out of hospital. ‘Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency services’ states an ambition to help patients to be seen more quickly in emergency departments, […]
Month: January 2023
National Data Guardian public benefit evaluations for data use in research, planning and innovation
The National Data Guardian (NDG), Dr Nicola Byrne, has recently published guidance with an aim to support organisations in carrying out public benefit evaluations when they are planning to use or allow access to data collected during the delivery of care for planning, research and innovation projects. The guidance is delivered in […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ publishes review of IT critical incident
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has published a final report following a series of reviews into an IT critical incident on 19 July when two separate data centres suffered failures. The review collates a series of investigations, covering the trust’s methodology, timeline of events, main findings and recommendations for […]
Mid and South Essex ICB awards business intelligence services contract
Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded a contract to NHS Arden & GEM Commissioning Support Unit to deliver business intelligence services and platform provision across the ICB. The programme is said to support the integrated care board’s digital vision, to provide digital and data solutions that “drive […]
Milton Keynes University Hospital trials operational helper robot
Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) is trialing helper robots with the aim of supporting specific operational tasks such as delivering medicines, specimens, and clinical supplies. Working with Academy of Robotics, a British artificial intelligence company, the Helper Bot robot was first tested in November last year with more operational trials […]
NHS Digital updates security resources for clinical settings and social care
NHS Digital has updated its existing Keep I.T. Confidential online cyber security awareness toolkit with the aim of supporting social care organisations and clinical settings to improve security culture within their workplace. Two sets of campaign materials have been published, one aimed at staff working in clinical settings and one […]
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS digital strategy in focus
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS’s digital strategy is available in text and video format, covering their visions, goals, digital strategy mission and actions for the future. The strategy opens with a comment from Dr Jane Haplin, CEO and SRO For Digital Transformation Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. Dr Haplin highlights the […]
Industry view: Where in healthcare do you expect the digital focus to lie in 2023?
For our latest industry view piece, we posed three questions to our health tech audience: where in healthcare do you expect the most digital progress to be made? Does your expectation match your hope – do you think the focus will be on the areas that need it the most? If you […]
East Suffolk and North Essex launches robotic knee surgery app
Patients undergoing robotic knee surgery at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, are now being offered additional support through a specialist phone app. Medical technology company Smith+Nephew partnered with digital health experts Huma in order to create the app, with the aim of tailoring […]
Peppy Health raises £37 million for US expansion
Peppy Health, a platform that provides workplace health support, has secured £37 million in a Series B funding round led by Albion Capital, to support US expansion. The company’s platform is said to “support your employees through underserved areas of health that fall through the gaps all too often – […]
