Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS FT has launched its first Nursing Innovation Fellow position, with support from Burdett Trust for Nursing and its official charity CW+. The trust said the role will encourage nurse-led innovations and will support an entrepreneurial nurse, midwife or allied health professional to lead on the […]
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Interview Series: Dr Rameen Shakur, Cambridge Heartwear
In our latest interview in the series we speak with Dr Rameen Shakur, an academic clinician in Cardiology and Precision Medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder and chairman of Cambridge Heartwear. The medical device and algorithm company develops health technology and wearables for cardiac monitoring and also actively […]
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool deploys patient flow tech
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool has deployed a new patient flow system from Intouch with Health. The new £162 million centre has deployed the solution to support central outpatient flow management to allow staff to track the location and status of patients for the duration of their appointment. The platform […]
The Health Foundation Social Care Analytics funding programme closes this week for applications
The Health Foundation has opened a new programme to help to launch projects that demonstrate how data and analytics can be used to improve social care. £300,000 is being made available to support 5 projects with funding up to £60,000 each. Projects must be able to demonstrate how data and […]
Cera Care acquires Scottish domiciliary care provider for up to £2.5m
Cera Care, the technology-enabled home care provider that uses digital tools to improve elderly care services, has acquired Mears Care Scotland. The deal will add more than 1,000 staff and 12 offices in Scotland to Cera Care’s operations, with the Mears Groups domiciliary care arm integrating with the company. Since […]
Introducing ‘HTN for the Now’
HTN is pleased to announce HTN NOW, a new brand and focus for the online sessions, webcasts, storytelling and content we deliver and share. HTN NOW is a new focus to online storytelling ‘for the moment’ or ‘for the now’, where we curate a series of sessions to support our […]
Bupa launches at home skin cancer assessment service
Bupa has launched a new at home service to support remote skin cancer assessment, working with health tech company Skin Analytics. As part of the service, Bupa customers are sent an imaging kit, which includes a smartphone and a magnifying scope to take pictures of suspicious moles or marks. The images […]
Video: Leicester’s Hospitals digital strategy and EPR programme
HTN Summit 2020 Day Two, we were joined by Paul Volkaerts, CEO at Nervecentre, Andy Carruthers, Chief Information Officer at Leicester’s Hospitals and Graeme Hall, Chief Pharmacy Information Officer at Leicester’s Hospitals, for a session focusing on the EPR programme at the trust. The session explored Leicester’s Hospitals digital strategy, including their EPR Programme, electronic prescribing and medicines administration system and […]
Black Country Pathology Services progresses with laboratory network
Black Country Pathology Services is progressing with an initiative to digitally connect its laboratory network including four NHS trusts. The Dudley Group, Sandwell and Birmingham, Walsall Healthcare, and The Royal Wolverhampton will be using the CliniSys laboratory information system to support a regional ‘hub and spoke’ model. Once the system is rolled-out, […]
Video: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Health Education England discusses digital capabilities
For Day Two of HTN Summit 2020, we welcomed Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy Workstream Lead at Health Education England. Henrietta presented a session on ‘digital literacy’ and the importance of digital capabilities in the delivery of health and social care. Henrietta said: “Health Education England is embarking on a massive piece of work […]
