Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (CWH) NHS Foundation Trust and their official charity CW+ have launched a new version of their app Hand Therapy: The Exercise Prescription App. It forms part of the CW Innovation programme which is being led by the trust and CW+ with the aim of identifying and […]
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New eye-care electronic referral system to launch across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System is to launch a new electronic eye-care referral system between optometrists and ophthalmology service providers. The system has been procured by NHS England and is set to be launched across the integrated care system early next year. It will replace “a range of […]
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber community teams pilot patient communication tech
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) has completed a six-month pilot to digitise processes and patient experiences across its community service teams. The pilot aimed to improve communication between primary and secondary services, and support community teams such as podiatry, epilepsy and diabetes teams with patient messaging, video […]
Epic to launch website for suppliers to share interoperability
Epic, the electronic health record supplier, has shared plans to launch a website where health tech suppliers can self-report interoperability. Suppliers will be able to list their innovation and report if they have achieved successful data exchange with Epic. It is open to any tech vendor with an aim for […]
Electronic medical record system in place across Bermuda Hospitals
Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has gone live with a new electronic medical record system called PEARL (Patient Electronic and Administrative Records Log), using Cerner’s Millennium product. The system is being introduced to “replace a number of other systems” and to “support integration,” BHB said. The implementation of PEARL is “a significant […]
NHS England publishes waitlist validation guidance and targets
NHS England has published guidance to support healthcare systems with waitlist validation and to highlight a series of targets to May 2023. In a letter from Paul Doyle, national programme director for elective recovery at NHS England, to NHS trusts and system leaders, he notes that “validation is well established […]
Whittington Health and North Middlesex University Hospital to pilot remote monitoring tech
Whittington Health NHS Trust and North Middlesex University Hospital are to pilot remote monitoring technology from Spirit Health to support people living with heart failure and frailty. In a three-month pilot, supported by North Central London Integrated Care System, patients will be discharged and monitored at home by specialist clinical teams. […]
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS launches winter control room
NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System has this month launched a winter control room to manage demand and capacity across the county. The control room is said to use multi-agency data to support the region’s response to pressures across the system, where it can match staff with demand to […]
Cancer innovation call for bids from across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw
A second round of the Cancer Innovation Award Scheme in promoting improvement and innovation in cancer services has been launched by the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Cancer Alliance, in partnership with Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network (YHAHSN). Grants of £10k and £25k are on offer within voluntary, community […]
NHSE Digital Productivity programme shares roadmap for the future
The Digital Productivity programme from NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has shared its delivery plans going forward, along with the key areas of focus over the past year. Robot process automation (RPA) Overall, the programme aims to improve RPA capability across as many NHS services as possible by 2024. Present work […]
