Alzheimer’s Society, Innovate UK and Challenge Works have launched a new £4.34 million funding challenge to support innovations that help people with early-stage dementia to live independently. The programme is calling for global innovations and potential break through technologies that learn from a person living with dementia, employ artificial intelligence and […]
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News in Brief: Bolton tackle patient waiting lists, Hampshire introduce skin cancer tech…
It’s time for our latest news-in-brief to catch-up on some of the stories that caught our eye from across the health tech community – keep reading to find out what’s been happening. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust tackle patient waiting lists Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has introduced patient initiated follow-up (PIFU) across […]
University Hospitals Birmingham opens digital dictation market engagement
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has launched a market engagement exercise for a trust-wide digital dictation and speech recognition solution. The trust aims to engage with relevant suppliers at this early stage to judge interest from potential suppliers and support the production of a final specification. Its overall aim is […]
Derby and Burton NHS choose BridgeHead to retire legacy applications
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) has partnered with BridgeHead Software for the provision of software and services to underpin their application decommissioning programme. The trust plans to centralise its data as part of an ongoing digital transformation project, through which they are standardising their core […]
Royal Marsden researchers to trial new referral pathway
Researchers at The Royal Marsden NHS FT have launched a trial to develop a new pathway that aims to speed up diagnosis and reduce anxiety for patients with suspected head and neck cancer. The EVEREST-HN trial launches this month to investigate whether assessing each patient’s risk using a risk stratification tool before they […]
Dr Nicole Atkinson on Nottingham ICS, digital primary care and more
Welcome back to our podcast HTN Let’s Talk! In this episode we interview Dr Nicole Atkinson, the South Notts Place Clinical Lead and NHS Confederation Primary Care Medical Advisor and GP. We talk about her role and career in healthcare, Nottingham ICS, digital primary care and much more. To start […]
University Hospitals Plymouth create virtual reality dome for new urgent and emergency care centre
University Hospitals Plymouth has created a virtual reality dome to provide an experience to view its planned new urgent and emergency care centre as part of the government’s programme to build 40 hospitals by 2030. The new centre aims to improve capacity at Derriford Hospital, with the virtual reality centre […]
Sussex Health and Care remote monitoring evaluation for COVID published
An NHS evaluation has found that remote monitoring provided a “safe and effective” route for managing COVID patients at home. Sussex Health and Care’s Oximetry @ Home service, set up with Inhealthcare for high-risk and clinically vulnerable patients, “minimised contact for positive cases and significantly reduced demand on alternative services”, […]
University AI accelerator programme announces new cohort
An accelerator programme, delivered by The University of Edinburgh, has announced 12 suppliers joining its new 2022/23 cohort. The programme aims to support emerging suppliers that specialise in using artificial intelligence (AI) to commercialise their solution. Some of the technologies include a solution designed to increase transparency and minimise any unintended […]
DHSC publish secure data environment policy guidelines
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has this month published secure data environment policy guidelines, to “set out clear rules for how secure data environments will be used to access NHS health and social care data for research and analysis”. The new guidelines come after the ‘Data saves […]
