Inicio Health, a health tech start-up founded by James Davis, former Royal Free London chief innovation officer, and Amanda Sparkes, former Royal Free London divisional director of operations and nursing, has launched its first product. The company is on a mission to deliver “clinically led, patient centred, innovatively delivered, digital products for health” and […]
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West Yorkshire ICS to expand virtual wards
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has opened a tender opportunity to expand its remote monitoring programmes across the region. Virtual wards are currently in place across Leeds, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield, Bradford District and Craven, however the ICS “plans to expand the bed base” and “deliver both step-up and step-down pathways that […]
North West trusts tender for integrated digital pathology solution
A joint tender opportunity involving trusts across the North West has opened. The tender is valued at £10 million for the provision and implementation of an integrated digital pathology solution across the Lancashire and South Cumbria region. The trusts involved include: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust University Hospitals of […]
Poll: How much time this week did you put towards innovation, driving new ideas or creative thinking?
The latest question we asked to our health tech audience revolved around creative thinking for new ideas and innovation. We asked: How much time this week did you put towards innovation, driving new ideas or creative thinking? 69 people took part in the poll, with participants from a vast range […]
£6 million funding awarded to respiratory disease and cardiovascular disease innovations
Six innovations that support people with respiratory diseases will receive a share of £2.7 million, and eight innovations that help detect, prevent and manage cardiovascular disease are to share £3.3 million in funding. The programme, led by SBRI Healthcare, an Accelerated Access Collaborative initiative in partnership with the Academic Health […]
Poll: Do your local healthcare providers share live waiting time data for A&E and urgent care via a patient facing app or website?
The latest question we posed to our health tech audience revolved around the availability of live data for urgent care. Analysis published by CQC following a 6-month pilot project where an app shared waiting times for A&E and urgent treatment centres across east Kent and Northamptonshire noted: reduced minors’ profile across […]
Maz Fosh, CEO of Lincolnshire Community, highlights virtual wards across Lincolnshire
Maz Fosh, CEO of Lincolnshire Community Health Services (LCHS) NHS Trust, has highlighted how virtual wards are working well in Lincolnshire, and how they are keen to explore the approach for other conditions. Currently LCHS have virtual wards for heart failure, frailty, respiratory, children’s complex neurology and same-day emergency care. […]
DHSC announces £250 million hospital discharge funding and highlights data and innovations from Frontrunners
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced an additional £200 million in funding to support patient discharge initiatives and has highlighted six National Discharge Frontrunners using data and innovations. The £200 million comes on top of the £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund announced in December, covered by HTN […]
Policy to improve patient safety through use of medical devices in development with NHS Scotland
NHS Scotland is developing a policy aiming to improve patient safety with regards to medical devices in Scotland, by improving available information and system-wide data. The policy is being developed by the SG Medical Devices and Legislation Unit (MDLU). It seeks to improve traceability of medical devices and equipment through […]
Royal Marsden counts down to EHR launch
The Royal Marsden NHS FT has started to count down to the launch of Connect, its new electronic health record. Described as “the largest and most important digital transformation programme in The Royal Marsden’s history”, Epic will be introduced across the trust in March 2023. This month has seen the […]
