Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Kingston Hospital Charity are constructing a new digital clinical design and manufacturing facility within the trust’s Princess Alexandra Wing. The facility will be completed in March and will help Kingston Hospital to provide “onsite digital customised anatomical models and medical devices, using 3D […]
Year: 2023
Special report: Digital leaders on EPR business cases
For our latest special report focusing on electronic patient records, we posed a question to a number of digital-focused NHS professionals. Is there anything that you think is usually or often missed from EPR business cases, and what would your key lesson(s) around that be? To begin, we heard from […]
James Freed, chief digital and information officer at Health Education England
Welcome back to our podcast HTN Let’s Talk! For this episode we interview James Freed, chief digital and information officer at Health Education England (HEE). We discussed key digital projects James has been involved in, his thoughts and experiences in developing the digital workforce and more. To start, James spoke […]
Imperial College Healthcare, Northumbria Healthcare and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals collaborate through DERIC trial
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has collaborated with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to take part in the Digitally Enhanced Rehabilitation in Cardiac Patients (DERIC) care platform trial. Health tech company ConnectedLife created DERIC to help deliver cardiac rehabilitation to patients within their […]
North Cumbria Integrated Care introduces new imaging tech
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is using a new form of imaging technology with the aim of improving breast cancer diagnosis. The process entitled ‘Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography’ is said to be more sensitive in picking up specific cancers than mammograms. The technology uses x-ray to take images […]
Scottish Government shares consultation analysis on health and social care data strategy
The Scottish Government has shared analysis on the results of a public consultation they held last summer to inform the development of Scotland’s first data strategy for health and social care. The analysis is split into three main sections: empowering people, with focus on how individuals can have greater access […]
Virtual wards and remote monitoring tech added to Spark DPS
The Spark Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), run by the Crown Commercial Service, has been enhanced to include procurement of virtual wards and remote patient monitoring technology. With support from NHS England, four new areas have been added to the framework, to cover virtual wards, continuous monitoring support, long term condition (remote […]
Accurx’s Dr Satya Raghuvanshi on waiting list management and why simple tech is key
By Dr Satya Raghuvanshi, Head of Clinical, Accurx. In his latest Elective Recovery bulletin, Jim Mackey, National Director for Elective Recovery, recorded that waiting lists in NHS trusts across the country are “not as accurate as they should be, with multiple entries apparent in the data.” To many, this could […]
Date set for Health and Social Care Northern Ireland EPR go-live
The first trust as part of the Health and Social Care Northern Ireland ‘Encompass’ programme is set to go live on 9 November 2023. The £300m 10-year programme is to deliver a new electronic patient record for five trusts across Northern Ireland. South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust will be the first […]
HTN Now: Dr Minal Bakhai on supporting general practice to transform and create a sustainable future
At HTN Now Digital Primary Care, we focused on the topic of sustainability in the healthcare industry and the role technology can and will play in transforming general practice. We were joined by Dr Minal Bakhai, Director for Primary Care Transformation at NHS England and GP. Minal discussed how we […]
