Public Health Wales (PHW) has launched a new digital and data strategy to enhance health data accessibility, quality, and security, acting as an enabling strategy to deliver its long term public health strategy. The strategy sets out three overarching themes: to build strong foundations, build in alignment and to build […]
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Wales awards £1.4m primary care workforce intelligence system contract
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has awarded a contract to procure a primary care workforce intelligence system, worth an estimated £1,144,760. The programme aims to form a single integrated solution to manage primary and community care workforce information, the medical performers list, ophthalmic performers list, dental performers list and all Wales pharmacy database […]
South West London ICB shares how digital triage improves primary care access
South West London integrated care board has shared how a digital system is being used at a practice in Kingston to triage patients. Holmwood Corner Surgery in Kingston launched an online triage service in May 2022, with an aim to support patients choose the best option that suits them when […]
Clinical Digital Health Solutions framework opens for clinical and care based digital solutions
The latest Clinical Digital Health Solutions Framework opportunity has opened, with focus on the “next generation clinical digital solutions for the Integrated Health Economy framework”. Worth an estimated value of £2 billion, the framework from the NHS London Procurement Partnership is to open in March 2024, and run to March 2026. It […]
£3 million funding for adult social care projects
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £3 million in funding to support four transformation projects in adult social care. Through the Adult Social Care Technology Fund, four projects have been identified, including a digital fall prevention programme, sensors to monitor a person’s daily habits, virtual care delivery, […]
Prescription management, long-term conditions, and new patient registrations in focus for improving care navigation in general practice
NHS England’s Primary Care Transformation team has published a guide focusing on prescription management, long-term conditions and new patient registrations as part of support to improve care related processes in general practice. For improving prescription management, the guidance places focus on increasing uptake of the NHS App or other patient […]
NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme opens for innovators
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme has opened applications for the latest cohort to join its free entrepreneurial workforce development programme for NHS staff and healthcare professionals. The programme forms part of the Accelerated Access Collaborative, and is delivered by Anglia Ruskin University, to support innovators to pursue their ideas or innovations, without […]
Interview: Paul Tambeau, chief executive officer of Induction Healthcare
FEATURED INTERVIEW 12 November, 2023 09:00am This week, we’re focusing on patient engagement portals. We spoke with Paul Tambeau, chief executive officer of Induction Healthcare, to hear his perspective. Hi Paul, can you introduce yourself and tell me a bit about Induction Healthcare? “At Induction Healthcare, we are at the […]
ICSs invited to bid for share of £30 million tech fund
The Department of Health and Social Care has opened a £30 million funding programme inviting integrated care systems to submit bids for digital projects. The funding opportunity is based on local need, which the Government notes could cover technology to support wait lists, virtual wards, wearable devices to monitor chronic conditions […]
Buckinghamshire connects surgical wait lists with shared care record
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has collaborated with Graphnet Health to pilot a population health dashboard that combines its surgical waiting lists with the Buckinghamshire Shared Care Record. Formed and launched earlier this year to enable targeted preoperative support, the dashboard is said to support “identification of high-risk surgical patients”, to provide targeted […]
