Feedback, a provider of digital infrastructure to facilitate patient specific pathways between primary and secondary care, has been awarded a 12 month extension of an initial pilot with Sussex Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System. The pilot aimed to support community diagnostic centres establish “symptom-based pathway models” using Feedback’s digital infrastructure […]
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Interview: Sam Jackson and Kezia Marshall at Hampshire Hospitals on digital champions
For our latest interview we spoke to Sam Jackson, Clinical Services Manager for the Virtual Health Hub, and Kezia Marshall, Improvement Project Manager at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Topics of conversation included digital champions, their individual work, challenges, successes, and more. Here’s what they both had to say… Projects […]
Coventry and Warwickshire tackle waiting lists with text message initiative
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has launched a new initiative with an aim to reduce waiting times for elective care. The trust is sending patients on its waiting list at University Hospital, Coventry or the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby a short survey by text message or postal […]
NHS CEO to join health tech company
Caroline Shaw CBE, the chief executive officer at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS FT is to join health tech supplier Evergreen Life this month. Following leading the trust out of ‘special measures’ Caroline is set to join the health and wellbeing company as chief operating officer. The company […]
Humber and North Yorkshire ICS launches accessing appointments communication campaign
Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has launched a communication campaign to support patients with accessing new appointment methods and to understand the digital options. The integrated care system outpatient transformation programme has produced two animations to help explain what patient initiated follow ups are and to describe how […]
News in Brief: Leeds pilots remote monitoring tech, NatWest introduces health app, ambulance trusts trial electric vehicles, AI to detect Parkinson’s
Our latest news-in-brief is here! In the latest edition we cover a pilot of remote monitoring tech at Leeds Teaching, AI to detect Parkinson’s, digital check-in kiosks at Lewisham and Greenwich, and the NatWest Group has introduced a menopause app for employees. NatWest Group introduces menopause app for employees NatWest Group has […]
Drones to deliver medical samples across Morecambe Bay through Future Flight Challenge funding
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are set to pioneer the use of drone technology to deliver medical samples between hospital sites. The project has come about due to approximately £1.4 million in funding from UK Research and Innovation. It […]
£1.7 bn tender opened for future NHS workforce tech
NHS Business Services Authority has opened a tender worth up to £1.7 billion to procure a ‘Future NHS Workforce Solution’. NHS BSA is calling for “a new transformed integrated workforce management solution for the NHS in England and Wales” to fulfil the ambition of “providing the NHS with a user-centred […]
Interview: Luke O’Shea, Director of Innovation and Executive Lead for Sustainability at University College London Hospitals
For our latest interview in our digital sustainability series, we spoke to Luke O’Shea, Director of Innovation and Executive Lead for Sustainability at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We discussed what they are aiming for in their green plan, their digital projects, what has gone well, and more. […]
Digital kiosks launched at Lincolnshire community hubs to support wellbeing
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) has launched eight digital kiosks in various community venues across the county, support by national funding. Through the kiosks and tablets, residents can access what is known as the ‘Lincolnshire Atrium’ – a resource helping individuals manage their health and wellbeing, and support mental health transformation […]
