Visit Rackspace Technology at HETT Booth D49. Both Jason and Nick will be at HETT. If you would like to speak with them, please request through the app. Ahead of their attendance at HETT, HTN recently sat down to talk with a team from Rackspace Technology, which delivers hybrid multicloud […]
Author: Amy Archer-Williams
NHSE shares winter priorities with plan to launch clinical and operational improvement programme
NHS England has published priorities for the winter period, outlining the steps to be taken by NHSE and by ICB and providers, including how data will be used to support patient safety, quality of care and transformation. On how NHSE will support transformation and improvement, plans are set out to […]
Three SMEs awarded for national digital tobacco treatment service
NHS England has shared details of a four-year contract awarded to three suppliers for a national digital tobacco treatment service, providing adult smokers in England with access to digital tobacco dependency apps. The contracts went to three SMEs – Smoke Free, Thrive Tribe and Livewell Southwest – with each reportedly […]
Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn 2024-2030 strategy highlights plans for EPR and ‘digital first new hospital’
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH) has published its new strategy for 2024-2030, with digital and data highlighted as one of nine “essential focus areas”. The strategy sets out an aim to improve care access and efficiency through use of technology and enhancement of overall digital […]
HL7 shares guidance on standards-based AI and ML data lifecycle
Health Level Seven International (HL7) has published guidance on the artificial intelligence and machine learning data lifecycle, intended as an “informative document” to help developers in promoting the use of of standards to “improve the trust and quality of interoperable data used in AI models”. The paper provides a range […]
NICE to develop external assessment group framework for health tech worth £2m
The National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) has published a prior information notice highlighting plans to develop an external assessment group framework, by commissioning groups capable of providing a range of health technology assessment services to support its technology evaluation programmes. The framework is split into three lots, […]
HSE announces online task force for Ireland, and launches cancer elearning programme
Ireland’s minister for health Stephen Donnelly has announced the establishment of an online health taskforce with the aim of developing a public health response to the harms caused to children and young people by certain online activities. The taskforce has reportedly been set up “in recognition of a growing body […]
North London Mental Health Partnership to procure digital risk management and incident reporting system
North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) has shared plans to procure a digital local risk management and incident reporting system, with interested suppliers requested to complete a questionnaire by 18 September. Contextually, the notice highlights how the partnership currently sees Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden […]
Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the NHS: digital in focus
The government has published its independent investigation into the NHS in England, following health and social care secretary Wes Streeting’s order of a full independent investigation earlier in the summer with the aim of exposing the “extent of the issues” facing the NHS. Professor Lord Darzi was selected to lead […]
Preventative health tech company Neko Health launches in London offering full body scan
Preventative health tech company Neko Health has launched in London with the opening of a Health Centre offering the ‘Neko Body Scan’, described as a “preventative health check for the future self” mapping millions of external and internal health data points on the body. Taking approximately 10 minutes, the scan […]
