Health Education England and NHS Transformation Directorate have launched an online learning programme on robotic process automation (RPA). Led by Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) team, the programme has been design to support health and social care organisations develop, procure and implement robotic process automation technology. It […]
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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS partner with Israeli health tech company
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS FT has announced a partnership with Israeli digital health company, Taliaz. The trust is introducing the company’s artificial intelligence platform with an aim to improve mental health treatment by providing clinical decision support tools and patient management for psychiatrists and GPs. The tech is said to […]
Direction for a new NHS England outlined in operating framework
NHS England has published a new framework that sets out how the organisation will operate in the new structure created by the 2022 Health and Care Act, and to outline how the direction at a national level will support integrated care systems (ICS). It focuses on transformation, change, culture, partnership working, […]
ORCHA and Patients Know Best collaborate with Hull Teaching Hospitals
ORCHA and Patients Know Best have collaborated with Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to support patients to digitally self-manage long term conditions and when waiting for elective procedures. When patients use the patient portal from Patients Know Best, they will be able to access the digital health library from […]
Frimley Health launches app to provide traffic light guidance on childhood illness
Frimley Health NHS FT has launched a new app to provide traffic light guidance on childhood illness. The new Frimley Healthier Together app has been introduced with an aim to reduce the number of patients going to GP practices or accident & emergency departments with minor (green) ailments. It provides parents, […]
GP practices across South East Hampshire introduce SurgeryPods
A new technology called SurgeryPod has been introduced by GP practices across South East Hampshire to support patients, without clinical supervision or having to make an appointment, perform their own health checks. Supplied by Microtech Health, SurgeryPod helps to document patient data and take readings and measurements such as blood pressure, weight, pulse […]
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Norfolk and Norwich Hospital launches digital follow-up pathways
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has introduced digital personalised follow-up pathways with an aim to meet national targets to move 5 percent of patients onto a Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) pathway by 2023. The trust has worked with health tech suppliers, Infinity Health and DrDoctor, to utilise the suppliers’ digital […]
Sunderland Royal Hospital trials 24/7 prescription vending machine
Sunderland Royal Hospital has introduced a vending machine that allows patients access to their prescriptions 24/7 at the touch of a button. The device, called Pharmaself24, was piloted with 100 patients who have rheumatoid arthritis. Previously, they were given a quarterly supply of the immunosuppressant drug methotrexate, available only through […]
Five pilot sites announced to transform wound care
A new Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) programme has launched with an aim to transform wound care through data and digital tools. The programme aims to support data collection and provision of care through a new digital wound management system, support the delivery of training for staff and implement a new evidence-based […]
