The Northern Ireland Department of Health has announced an initiative to centralise and improve information available to patients, with the launch of My Waiting Times NI. The website will provide patients with the average waiting times for a first outpatient hospital appointment, across health and social care trusts and the […]
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InnoScot Health launches innovation call focusing on child and maternal health
InnoScot Health has announced a new innovation call to inspire new ideas and projects that support good child and maternal health. With up to £25k available for initial seed funding, the programme includes regulatory support, project management and guidance. Aimed to support idea generation and innovations focused on pregnancy and […]
NHS England plans £975 million tech framework
NHS England has released a prior information notice to inform the market of an upcoming opportunity for digital primary care technology and to initiate an information gathering exercise. The programme aims to introduce a framework of new solutions and capabilities, with NHS England planning to engage with potential suppliers to review, ask […]
GP website benchmarking and improvement tool launched
NHS England has published a GP website benchmarking and improvement tool (Excel spreadsheet) to support general practice, audit their website information and key patient user journeys. It aims to support GP practices to review their website in line with patient journeys, such as to helping people find information about urgent […]
The Health Foundation launches Tech for Better Care funding scheme
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 […]
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 […]
