We were joined for a recent HTN Now webinar focusing on sharing best practices around cyber security, by an expert panel including Neill Crump, digital strategy director at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust; Nasser Arif, cyber security manager at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) and Hillingdon Hospitals […]
Month: March 2025
Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care 2025?
A recent poll on our LinkedIn page asked the question, what do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care – patient-facing digital tools, interoperability, funding to support innovation, or back office efficiencies? With 39 percent of the vote, patient-facing digital tools came out on top. Coming in […]
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital deploys Nervecentre EPR
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts have introduced Nervecentre’s cloud–native EPR platform. Launched across six hospitals in February, as part of a phased roll-out, this phase focused on deploying mobile capabilities to the hospitals’ emergency departments and inpatient wards. The trusts report that […]
HTN Primary Care Awards 2025: meet the winners!
HTN Primary Care Awards Ceremony Welcome to the reveal of the HTN Primary Care Awards! We’re delighted to share our winners with you. We’d like to say thank you to everyone who has helped us announce our winners, and of course thank you to all of our entries. We’ve […]
British Heart Foundation Innovation Fund opens for funding of up to £350k
Applications have opened for the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Healthcare Innovation Fund, looking to develop ways to transform the delivery of services for people with cardiovascular disease. The fund is looking for ideas that identify unmet needs that require “further scoping and consensus building” around potential solutions, that have been […]
NHS Frimley ICB awards contract for digital social prescribing platform
NHS Frimley ICB has awarded a contract to Pungo Ltd for its social prescribing digital solution, Joy, to support the “social needs” of patients across four Slough PCNs and other secondary care partners. The procurement of the solution aims to improve connections between residents and local services within the region, […]
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS partners with cyber security platform
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has chosen the cyber exposure management platform Armis to “protect its entire attack surface and manage cyber risk exposure in real time”. The AI-powered Armis Centrix will reportedly “identify and mitigate all cyber asset risks, remediate security findings and vulnerabilities” within the trust, protecting […]
North Middlesex University Hospital launches virtual fracture clinic
North Middlesex University Hospital has launched a virtual fracture clinic with the aim to “improve patient experience and boost efficiency”. The virtual clinic supports patients following a scan for a fracture or a minor injury, aiming to reduce physical follow-up appointments where possible. According to Royal Free London NHS Foundation […]
Microsoft launches AI assistant for clinical workflow
Microsoft has launched Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant for clinical workflow, bringing together natural language voice dictation and ambient listening capabilities “with fine-tuned generative AI and healthcare-adapted safeguards”, said to support documentation, surfacing important information, and task automation. Examples of functionality available to clinicians include the ability to create […]
Study explores GP “alert fatigue” from clinical reminders
A study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research has explored “alert fatigue” from clinical reminders (CRs) amongst GPs, with concerns around design, content accuracy, and “lack of contextual nuance”. Authors suggest ways to overcome this and improve adherence to CRs, including working with GPs on their design, undertaking training on […]
