Improvement guides and analytic tools have been published by NHS England, designed to help support flow through the emergency care pathway; to generate greater value for patients from theatres, elective surgery, perioperative care and outpatient services; and to improve medical consultant job planning. The tools are “improvement analytic compartments in […]
Author: Amy Archer-Williams
North West London Acute Provider Collaborative appoints chief information officer across four trusts
North West London Acute Provider Collaborative, made up of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare, London North West University Healthcare and The Hillingdon Hospitals, has announced that Robbie Cline will hold the position of chief information officer across the four trusts. The collaborative previously had two joint CIOs in […]
NHSE’s patient safety strategy for primary care shares digital commitments around culture and patient involvement
NHS England has published a strategy detailing the primary care implementation of the NHS patient safety strategy, noting the role of digital and data in areas such as automatically flagging patient safety issues to support reliability, and supporting clinical decision-making by digitally embedding diagnosis advice and safety netting. Looking firstly […]
Liverpool University Hospitals utilises remote monitoring platform for heart failure virtual ward
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s heart failure virtual ward has introduced use of the remote monitoring KiActiv digital service with the aim of improving recovery rates for patients experiencing serious cardiac conditions. KiActiv combines an online platform with a wearable device that collects personalised data about the user’s everyday […]
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT 2024-2029 maternity strategy highlights EPR plans for 2025
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has published its maternity service strategy for 2024-2029, highlighting innovation and technology as key enablers to develop the service and noting plans to launch a new maternity end-to-end electronic patient record in 2025. The strategy focuses on four key aims, including understanding clinical outcomes based […]
Digital Health and Care Wales to procure digital maternity solution for NHS Wales
Digital Health and Care Wales has shared plans to procure a new commercial, off-the-shelf digital maternity solution for NHS Wales, with the functionality to support a shared maternity record and notes and supported by a service management regime. The published tender highlights how DHCW seeks to develop a sole supplier framework […]
Feature: Rackspace Technology on the tangible benefits delivered to the NHS through leveraging cloud
HTN recently sat down to talk with a team from Rackspace Technology, which delivers hybrid multicloud solutions across platform infrastructure, applications, data, and security. We were joined by Nick Roberts, sovereign services lead (including healthcare, cloud, proposition services and product), and Jason Jones, executive in residence. To begin, Nick and […]
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 […]
