NHS England has published the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, to outline measures to address the current 112,000 staffing shortfall, and to highlight how it will support staff retention, increase education and training, and capitalise on technology to support reforms. The plan sets out an ambition that by 2036/37 – with retention […]
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NHS England and Microsoft agree new deal
NHS England and Microsoft have agreed a five-year deal to provide all NHS organisations with access to Microsoft 365 productivity tools. It means all NHS staff will be able to use Microsoft 365 apps, such as Office 365, with the deal also including Microsoft security solutions, providing capabilities for threat protection, data governance […]
Scottish health tech start up signs deals with NHS Highland and NHS Forth Valley
Infix Support, a health tech start-up based in Scotland, has signed contracts with NHS Highland and NHS Forth Valley to implement its software. Founded by consultant anaesthetist Dr Matthew Freer in 2019, the software is said to improve operating theatre efficiency and support waiting list management through its virtual portal. […]
Circle Health introduces patient recorded outcomes measures platform
Circle Health Group has partnered with My Clinical Outcomes to introduce its patient recorded outcomes measures platform across Circle Health’s 54 hospitals. Launched across Circle Health’s hospitals in May, the project aims to improve clinical outcomes and data capture, “from identifying unwarranted variation in surgical results, to automatic data submissions and […]
EPMA goes live at Nottingham University Hospitals
Nervecentre’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution has gone live across Nottingham University Hospitals. The City Hospital went live with the system in May, across two weekends, and Queen’s Medical Centre moved to the new system earlier this month. It means the hospitals have moved away from a paper process to the […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals agrees cancer data partnership
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has partnered with Flatiron Health UK to utilise cancer data for research and to explore the possibilities in developing and improving cancer care. The project sets an ambition to improve the quality of cancer data, and to translate cancer patient records at Leeds into ‘high-quality data’. The […]
At-home cholesterol test to pilot across North East and North Cumbria
A pilot is to launch across North East and North Cumbria involving a finger prick blood test, a lateral flow device and an app, to provide results indicating if a person has high cholesterol. The PocDoc Lipid Test forms part of the pilot, which will see the test offered to […]
60 hospitals across Catalonia to introduce openEHR medication management platform
The Catalan Health Service has partnered with a consortium led by T-Systems and Better, to introduce Better Meds, the electronic prescribing and medication administration system. To be implemented across 60 hospitals across Catalonia, the project has been described as the “largest ever single Better Meds project” and will see the openEHR standard […]
East Lancashire Hospitals goes live with EPR
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with its electronic patient record system over the weekend. The programme, known as ‘eLancs’, is designed to improve patient care by replacing paper-based notes and records with digital tools, including introducing a new electronic patient record system across its hospitals. Highlights of the […]
NHS App to include mental health and MSK tools and new commercial pathway in development: Lord Markham at London Tech Week
Lord Markham delivered a keynote speech at London Tech Week 2023, to highlight how the government is supporting innovation, the introduction of mental health and MSK tools into the NHS App, and a new proposed commercial framework to “improve market access” and “consolidate the buying points”. On the NHS App, Markham said: […]
