The Health Foundation has launched a new funding programme, Tech for Better Care, to support the use of technology to enable care at home and in the community. £2 million is being made available over 18 months, to support six teams to develop, test and pilot innovations. The aim is to […]
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BenevolentAI announces restructure and strategic focus
BenevolentAI, a clinical-stage AI-enabled drug discovery and development company, has published its strategic plan for a “new era in AI”. The company has outlined its focus to prioritise high-potential products to value inflection points, develop new products to capitalise on the “vast potential of AI”, and progress a proposed headcount reductions […]
Case Study: Delivering an electronic vaccination process for The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Case Study OX.DH The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is a combined acute and community trust providing services at a number of sites across the borough. As part of their vaccination programme, a team from Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust regularly visits local schools and holds clinics to vaccinate children of secondary […]
“It epitomises the collaboration we’ve all been talking about” – how ICSs can integrate their health and social care portfolio
Babar Shafiq, national business development manager at Radar Healthcare, joined us at HTN Digital ICS to explore how Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) can harness machine learning and AI to drive governance automation and integrate health and social care. During his presentation, Babar demonstrated Radar Healthcare, a leading solution of risk, […]
NHS App to provide patients choice between providers at GP referral
NHS England has announced that patients will be offered a shortlist of at least five care providers to choose from through the NHS app, when they are referred by a GP. The move aims to provide patients with more choice and control over their own care, providing a patient with providers […]
NHS SBS opens cloud solutions framework
NHS Shared Business Services has opened a new framework opportunity to support the procurement of cloud solutions. Through an estimated £500 million framework, it includes four lots to cover solution design and consultancy, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). The […]
NHS blueprinting team, Gloucestershire Hospitals and Polygeist on using AI to tackle length of stay
At HTN: AI and Data, we were joined by members of the NHS England Blueprinting Team for a discussion on the blueprinting programme, the NHS AI Lab Skunkworks programme, and a project from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust in partner with PolyGeist. Joining us were Andrew Freeman (programme manager of the […]
Feature: digital transformation in connected care systems
By Daniel Johnston MRes, RN, Sr Clinical Workflow Specialist & UK NHS Clinical Safety Officer Why we need connected care systems Clinicians in every section of the health sector are working as hard as they possibly can after the recent pandemic. With budgetary pressures and widespread staff shortages adding to […]
NHSE launches primary care digital and transformation lead development programme
NHS England has launched a new programme to support PCN digital and transformation leads with core skills to lead transformational change. Through a twelve month development programme, digital and transformation lead ARRS roles will be supported with quality improvement, data and digital, managing transformation, and a peer community to share learnings. […]
Digital tool supports understanding of knee treatment at Harrogate and District
Harrogate and District NHS FT has highlighted the positive impact of a new tool developed by Mr Dave Duffy, consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the trust. The multimedia tool has been developed to support patients’ understanding of their knee arthroscopy treatment – a type of keyhole surgery designed to check […]
