The Faculty of Clinical Informatics has opened a call for applications for new members and fellows, to add to its membership base of 780 clinical informaticians. The professional membership charity supports health and social care informaticians across the UK, with an aim to advance the profession and support the best use of […]
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North Staffordshire Combined launches Digital by Choice Strategy
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has published its digital strategy to outline its priorities and methodology to deliver services to meet the needs of its local population over the next five years. Published as part of the Trust’s overall strategy, it includes its vision, values, strategic themes and sections […]
Accelerated Access Collaborative and NHS England to launch MedTech Funding Mandate
Accelerated Access Collaborative and NHS England and Improvement are to launch its MedTech Funding Mandate on 1 April 2021. Initially planned to launch last year following a consultation process in December 2019, it explored at the time how the NHS could adopt MedTech innovations to provide a quick return on […]
County Durham and Darlington signs 10 year deal for integrated EPR
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has signed a 10-year agreement to implement Cerner’s integrated electronic patient record (EPR) solution. At a Trust board meeting in December 2020, the board agreed to award the contract to Cerner. It comes after years of clinicians and support staff being involved in […]
Central and North West London utilises TPP’s medicines dashboard
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust has worked with TPP to introduce a new medicines dashboard for their mental health services. Using the clinical development toolkit in SystmOne, the Trust has developed the dashboard to provide staff with quick access to information, such as access to medication charts, […]
Manchester University NHS and Siemens Healthineers agree 15-year, £125m partnership
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) and Siemens Healthineers have agreed a 15-year partnership, representing a £125 million investment. The partnership covers the provision and replacement of key radiology equipment, including over 350 installations, across eight hospital sites, part of the Trust’s transformation journey. Catherine Walsh, Divisional Director of Imaging for […]
NEWS2 evaluated for prediction of severe COVID-19 study
Researchers at King’s College London have conducted a large scale study into the accuracy of National Early Warning Risk Score (NEWS) 2 as a scoring system for predicting severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients. The researchers found poor-to-moderate accuracy for identifying patients at risk of being transferred to intensive care units, […]
Patients Know Best and Somerset Cancer Register integration to go live in March
Patients Know Best has partnered with the Somerset Cancer Register to support remote monitoring and access to data for cancer patients. NHS teams and their cancer patients will, from March, be able to use the patient portal to access to their digital health record through PKB and the NHS App. […]
Welsh NHS announces £25 million funding for digital
In a move to support health and care organisations’ move to more digital services, NHS Wales has committed a further £25 million in funding, Health and Social Services Minister Vaughan Gething has announced. The new funding aims to support the Welsh Government’s Plan for Health and Social Care – A […]
Moorfields awards £1.1m triage tool contract
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS FT has awarded £1.1 million to Dem Dx for its triaging tool. The triage platform is to be used by healthcare teams as a clinical reasoning tool, to support the triage process in the specialist eye hospital. The programme aims to reduce patient referrals to unnecessary tertiary […]
