Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT has become the first mental health trust to join the digital healthcare partnership known as Health Call.
The mental health trust, who is a Global Digital Exemplar, has joined the NHS collaboration as a shareholder.
Health Call is a key partner of the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System region and includes County Durham and Darlington NHS FT, Gateshead Health NHS FT, Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT, North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS FT, Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT and South Tees Hospitals NHS FT.
Darren McKenna, Director of Informatics at CNTW, said “CNTW are excited to join Health Call and enhance the current services to meet the needs of Mental Health patients.”
“Health Call brings together a wide range of specialist NHS expertise to achieve more through collaboration.”
The collaboration came together to create an innovative digital platform which supports healthcare professionals to design, develop and implement personalised digital health services at speed.
Ian Dove, Business Development Director at Health Call “We’re delighted to welcome CNTW as a Health Call shareholder. We’re excited to work with them to develop and implement digital tools that will enable patients in the North of the region to have both physical and mental health needs serviced through one app.”
“This also represents an important milestone for Health Call as a company as we broaden the scope and impact of our products to include mental health for the first time.”
Nick Black, Director at Health Call Solutions Ltd “Health Call has made great strides since its inception in 2014, and by growing our partnership to now include CNTW, we’re widening the space in which truly innovative and game-changing digital technologies can be developed for the benefit of patients, clinicians and the wider NHS.”
“By consolidating resources and doing it once for the region, we are reducing operational delivery costs and also bringing our digital community closer together as a network so that we can share learning across the same consistent products.”
