NHS Confederation and the Health Foundation have shared their six improvement lessons to support leaders and teams with winter pressures through a blog by Penny Pereira, Q Managing Director for the Health Foundation, and Dr Amar Shah, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chief Quality Officer at East London NHS Foundation Trust. […]
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TPP letter to the NHS “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated”
Frank Hester, OBE, founder and CEO of TPP, has taken to social media to share a letter to the NHS on his views of the costs of electronic patient record systems. TPP has commented that “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated” and “call for a time […]
UK-Canada AgeTech Innovation Exchange programme launches open competition
The UK-Canada AgeTech Innovation Exchange programme is to launch an open competition for companies from the UK and Canada to work together with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of elderly people through innovation. Applicants should be developing innovative solutions which are at an appropriate stage of development, with a […]
UK Research and Innovation pre-announce funding opportunity to accelerate health research
A funding opportunity has been pre-announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to develop innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies which can be applied to health challenges. It aims to bring researchers together across contrasting sectors and disciplines in order to change how health research is conducted. Projects are expected to […]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and CW+ launch updated hand therapy app
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 […]
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 […]
