The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust has been experiencing disruption and instabilities in some of its digital IT clinical systems since Wednesday 18 May. The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury and Rochdale Infirmary (run by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust), as well as North […]
Author: Amy Archer-Williams
NHS innovator workshop on digital mental health: what were the key messages?
Last week HTN attended an NHS workshop, “the future of digital in mental health and wellbeing”, in which NHS teams, innovators and suppliers gathered to discuss the current digital landscape for mental health within the NHS and what the future looks like. Here we will take a look at some […]
NHS Resolution publishes 2022-2025 strategy with a focus on data and insights
NHS Resolution has published ‘Advise, Resolve and Learn: Our strategy to 2025’, laying out strategic priorities over the next three years, including a new focus to improve maternity care. The strategy sets out four main priorities: to deliver fair resolution, to share data and insights as a catalyst for improvement, […]
West Midlands Ambulance Service receives Global Digital Exemplar accreditation
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has received accreditation from NHS England and NHS Improvement as part of its Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme. In 2018 the GDE programme, to support improvements in patient care through digital technology and information, opened to three ambulance trusts: South Central Ambulance Service NHS FT, West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS […]
NICE recommend digital self-help programme Sleepio to treat insomnia
Digital self-help programme Sleepio has been recommended to treat insomnia by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The tool provides tailored digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), using tech such as AI to tailor its support through the app. A six-week self-help programme is used to […]
Wirral University Teaching Hospital publishes new research and innovation strategy
Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) has released its new strategy focusing on the role of research and innovation up to 2026. Dr Nikki Stevenson, Medical Director and Deputy CEO, opens the strategy by describing how it “sets out our intention that research and innovation will be recognised as integral to […]
Video: Ideal Health on building the digital workforce for HTN Digital ICS
As part of HTN Digital ICS we welcomed Ideal Health, who offer strategic consultancy, project delivery and specialist resources to support health and social care organisations as they navigate digital transformation, for a session focusing on building the digital workforce. Senior Digital Transformation Associate Alison Walker joined us, along with […]
Video: Supporting the ICS virtual ward agenda
Next up as part of our Digital ICS event line-up is Inhealthcare, a recognised leader of patient remote monitoring technologies who work closely with NHS organisations to deliver digital transformation at a strategic level. For this edition of HTN Now, we explored a range of topics relating to the development […]
Video: accuRx discuss working with digital suppliers for HTN Digital ICS
At HTN Digital ICS, digital leaders got together to discuss how they are tackling the challenges of system-wide working, sharing their own approaches and showcasing innovations supporting the formation and development of digital integrated care systems (ICSs). We were joined for the first session of the day by accuRx, a […]
MPs launch inquiry into government progress on digital transformation within NHS
A new inquiry into the government’s progress in achieving a digitally-enabled health system across the NHS has been launched by MPs, to assess progress to-date and the further steps required. The Health and Social Care Committee has set out 11 key questions to be addressed, that include ‘how the government […]
