Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Kingston Hospital Charity are constructing a new digital clinical design and manufacturing facility within the trust’s Princess Alexandra Wing. The facility will be completed in March and will help Kingston Hospital to provide “onsite digital customised anatomical models and medical devices, using 3D […]
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James Freed, chief digital and information officer at Health Education England
Welcome back to our podcast HTN Let’s Talk! For this episode we interview James Freed, chief digital and information officer at Health Education England (HEE). We discussed key digital projects James has been involved in, his thoughts and experiences in developing the digital workforce and more. To start, James spoke […]
Imperial College Healthcare, Northumbria Healthcare and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals collaborate through DERIC trial
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has collaborated with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to take part in the Digitally Enhanced Rehabilitation in Cardiac Patients (DERIC) care platform trial. Health tech company ConnectedLife created DERIC to help deliver cardiac rehabilitation to patients within their […]
North Cumbria Integrated Care introduces new imaging tech
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is using a new form of imaging technology with the aim of improving breast cancer diagnosis. The process entitled ‘Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography’ is said to be more sensitive in picking up specific cancers than mammograms. The technology uses x-ray to take images […]
Date set for Health and Social Care Northern Ireland EPR go-live
The first trust as part of the Health and Social Care Northern Ireland ‘Encompass’ programme is set to go live on 9 November 2023. The £300m 10-year programme is to deliver a new electronic patient record for five trusts across Northern Ireland. South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust will be the first […]
Funding announced for The National Centre for Child Health Technology in Sheffield
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority has recently announced the final £6 million of funding for a new centre in Sheffield which aims to develop an advanced and integrated healthcare system for children and young people. The funding will form part of the total capital of £20m to start development of […]
Consultation opens for future plans of national IT systems
NHS England has opened a consultation for professionals across health and social care to input into future plans for national systems. The programme aims to understand what professionals need from the ‘Spine of the future’ and how technology can meet the current and future needs of patients, staff and citizens. As part […]
NHS Supply Chain publishes tender for commerce portal
NHS Supply Chain has opened a tender worth up to £10 million to procure a digital commerce portal. The opportunity aims to replace systems “over 30 years old” and introduce a single order and order management platform. NHS Supply Chain said it currently uses a range of systems for a […]
Healthy living app linked to rewards launches in Wolverhampton
A pilot of a new app has launched across Wolverhampton that offers incentives such as vouchers for shops, gym discounts and cinema tickets for users who track their exercise and healthy eating using the app. Supported by a government scheme, the app generates personalised health goals for every participant, for example […]
News in Brief: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals uses Gamma Knife technology, Dorset Healthcare University launches digital mental health campaign and more
It’s time for another news in brief. As always there has been plenty happening in the health tech community – join us as we take a look at some of the digital stories from across the NHS over the past days. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals uses new Gamma Knife technology Patients […]
