Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has entered a partnership with Aneira Health to offer AI-enabled healthcare for women working for the NHS, focusing on fitting around busy lives, improving access, and delivering personalised, proactive care.
The service is expected to launch this spring, with a small cohort of the trust’s workforce involved in testing the approach. Daghni Rajasingam, deputy CMO and consultant obstetrician, commented: “At Guy’s and St Thomas’ we recognise that great healthcare starts with those who provide it. The health and wellbeing of our staff is incredibly important to us, and we hope that this healthcare offer will transform how better women’s health is delivered in the future.”
In a LinkedIn post, the trust shared that the initial offer will focus on providing staff with “high-quality, convenient healthcare designed around their needs, empowering them to take charge of their health with confidence”.
Aneira Health’s website outlines some of the essential components to its personalised health offering for women, including well-woman checkups, sexual health screening, menstrual health, contraception, support with fertility, and advice on conditions such as endometriosis and PCOS.
Wider trend: Digital in supporting women’s health
For a recent HTN Now panel discussion, we were joined by expert panellists from across the healthcare sector to debate some of the key priorities and areas for the application of digital tools in women’s healthcare, as well as barriers to tech and the future outlook for digital in this arena. Panellists included: Saima Sharif, NHS obstetrician & gynaecologist, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust and digital/AI adopter for women’s health; Dr Nikita Kanani MBE, GP and chief strategy and innovation officer at Aneira Health; Sally Mole, senior digital programme manager – digital portfolio delivery team at The Dudley Group; and Vicky Rothwell, lead enterprise architect, Aire Logic.
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board have launched the women’s health app CONNECTPlus to offer advice and guidance to patients regarding women’s wellbeing. Developed by Health and Care Innovations Ltd, the CONNECTPlus app reportedly answers questions about contraception, the menopause and cervical screening, while offering general women’s health advice around pre-conception care, breast pain, STI screening, pelvic health to information about violence against young girls and women.
Google has announced a partnership with the Institute of Women’s Cancers, with the aim to find ways in which AI tools can help improve outcomes for female patients with breast cancer and gynaecological cancers. Formed at the France AI Action Summit, the partnership aims to develop an understanding of how AI can “help better address cancer” with research focusing on the role of AI tools when predicting the progression of cancer and any potential risks of relapse. Other areas of focus include utilising their combined expertise for the “identification of new biomarkers that can predict which patients will benefit from specific therapies” and exploring the “origins of tumours, their evolution over time and the specific characteristics of rarer and more complex cancers”.
