NHS Wales is launching a national digital systems usability survey to offer frontline clinicians an opportunity to speak up about the usability and design of digital systems across Wales. The survey aims to look into areas for long-term investments and improvements to ensure that the experience of using a digital […]
Month: March 2023
Technology highlighted in HEE’s vision for the future of GP training
Health Education England (HEE) has shared a report “for the future of general practice speciality training”, outlining ways to reform the delivery of education to GP trainees to focus on addressing health inequalities, improving technology and enhancing areas of clinical care such as mental health. The report, ‘Training the Future […]
“The key to adopting new technology is inclusivity” Dr Jonathan Serjeant and Matthew Davies on implementing Florence in Bedfordshire
We recently spoke to Dr Jonathan Serjeant and Matthew Davies on the partnership between Generated Health and Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB, with focus on the implementation of Generated Health’s intelligent messaging platform Florence. Firstly, we spoke to Jonathan to get an overview of Florence, how the platform works, and […]
NHS Scotland seeks national online triage solution and theatre scheduling tool
A prior information notice has been published by NHS National Services Scotland with regards to their plan to procure an online triage solution and a digital platform capable of optimising theatre capacity and increasing theatre productivity. With regards to the first, the notice states that NHS Scotland is “exploring a […]
Greater Manchester innovation accelerator secures investment
Health and care partners in Greater Manchester have collaborated with industry and academia to secure a multi-million pound health innovation accelerator, which aims to rapidly improve the treatment and diagnosis of diseases across the 2.8m GM population. The government has invested £100 million to boost three high-potential innovation clusters in […]
Special report: primary care cloud telephony
Our latest special report revolves around primary care telephony. Earlier this month, we covered the updates to the GP contract, including a new requirement to mandate the use of cloud-based telephony. “All practices need to be aware, that from the end of 2025, all analogue ISDN and PSTN lines will be […]
Suffolk County Council launch VR programme to support people living with dementia
Suffolk County Council has awarded £80,000 to Spark Emerging Technologies Ltd, to build a platform that supports virtual reality experiences for people who are living with dementia in Suffolk. Following an open tender process in 2022, the procurement was won by Spark to produce a VR application that is co-produced with service […]
The future of Spine, providing critical infrastructure for the NHS
A blog post has been shared by NHS England discussing the future of the Spine platform and how the infrastructure is to grow inline with the advancing digitisation of health and care. In the new NHS blog by Shan Rahulan (director of Spine Core) and Mark Burton (lead delivery manager of […]
Lincolnshire ICB launches app for live urgent and emergency care waiting times
Lincolnshire ICB has announced the launch of an app to provide citizens across the region with live urgent and emergency care services waiting time and queue numbers. The WaitLess app has gone live with an aim to support people make an informed decision about where to seek the fastest treatment for minor […]
The Royal Marsden goes live with EPR
The Royal Marsden NHS FT has gone live with Connect, its electronic patient record. Described as “the largest and most important digital transformation programme in The Royal Marsden’s history”, the Epic electronic health record went live at 4:00pm, 17 March. The trust also introduced a patient app and website called MyMarsden. […]
