Push Doctor has partnered with Hounslow GP practices and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust to provide digital access to NHS GP appointments. The service will support 300,000 people in the area to book appointments scheduled from 8am – 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am – 5pm on Saturday. The programme […]
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HTN Now Awards 2021: Finalists revealed
HTN is delighted to announce the finalists for the HTN Now Awards 2021. The HTN Now Awards 2021, sponsored by CCube Solutions, share and celebrate innovations, teams and health tech suppliers that have made a difference through the past 12 months. The awards provide a platform to share these innovations […]
£7.5 million to support digital shift scheduling across 38 NHS trusts
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £7.5 million in funding to support digital shift scheduling across 38 NHS trusts. The investment comes as part of a £26 million national fund to support the delivery of e-rostering systems by the end of 2021. A study conducted in May 2018 […]
Algorithm based on images being developed to support COVID-19 diagnosis
Researchers from Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT are developing an algorithm to support the diagnosis of patients with COVID-19 symptoms. Following access to over 40,000 CT scans, MRIs and X-rays from more than 10,000 patients, called the ‘National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID)’, the researchers are using the images to […]
Canon Medical launches call for net-zero radiology by 2040
Canon Medical has launched a call for a dedicated focus to achieve net-zero radiology by 2040, highlighting the greatest opportunity for change is via the NHS supply chain. The recent publication of the NHS report ‘Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service’ highlights that 62% of carbon emission sources in the NHS are generated by […]
Interview Series: Nadia Smati and Zaha Masri, co-founders of Amal Health
In our latest interview we speak with Nadia Smati and Zaha Masri, co-founders of Amal Health, a company set to transform the patient’s story into a clinical history. Nadia and Zaha met at Stanford University during their undergraduate studies and moved to London shortly after. Nadia completed her graduate medical […]
Perfect Ward hits 500,000 quality inspections
Perfect Ward, an app designed to make healthcare quality inspections quicker and easier, has reached a milestone of 500,000 inspections completed by health professionals. The app is now used by 25,000 nurses and care workers to conduct inspections to support quality improvements. Vanessa Smith, Executive Director of Nursing at South London […]
NHSX launches digital eyecare referral services purchasing system
NHSX has launched a new dynamic purchasing system to support healthcare providers access and adopt digital eyecare referral services. Seven suppliers to date have been assessed and admitted to the purchasing system, following an assurance process testing their capability. The purchasing system is to support healthcare providers run small competitions […]
Hear from over 60 healthcare digital teams and innovators for HTN Now this month
HTN’s Health Tech for the Now series continues this month with a week of online sessions starting 18th January. During the week we welcome digital leaders and teams from across health and care to share some of their digital programmes; their approach, what has worked well, their learnings and plans for […]
Testing phase for private healthcare data collection begins
NHS Digital has started the pilot testing phase for the collection of private hospital data by the NHS for the first time. A project led by NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) will see routine data for the independent sector collected to support a national dataset. The pilot programme […]
