NHS England has opened a new opportunity to procure a supplier to deliver a digital maturity assessment programme. A two year contract worth up to £6.7 million, with an option to extend for a further year, will require a supplier to deliver a baseline and an enhanced assessment of NHS trusts […]
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Amazon to acquire US primary care provider for £3.25bn
Amazon has announced its latest move into healthcare, through the acquisition of One Medical, a “technology-powered U.S. primary care organisation”. The deal for £3.25bn ($3.9bn) will see Amazon acquire One Medical, a subscription-based service where people can have access to doctors through in-person, digital, and virtual care services, for a monthly […]
North East telemedicine project expands for stroke patients
The North East Ambulance Service alongside the Integrated Stroke Delivery Network in the region are expanding their telemedicine project, where ambulance clinicians video call the stroke units directly. The organisations have been working together to improve emergency stroke care by implementing audio visual calls from the ambulance. The technology in place will allow […]
Wales to evaluate AI pain management tech
A funding programme in Wales is to support a pilot phase and evaluation of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered pain assessment tool. Life Sciences Hub Wales, with the Gwent Regional Partnership Board via its Technology Enabled Care Programme, will be providing funding for 12 months to pilot the PainChek tool in care environments […]
NHSE opens procurement for delivery partner to support frontline digitisation programme
NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has opened a procurement process to partner with a delivery supplier to support its Frontline Digitisation programme. The programme aims to provide national support for locally led digital transformation, with the aim of this procurement to find a delivery partner for the provision of advice, support, expertise […]
Wales to establish £100m hospital electronic prescribing framework
Digital Health and Care Wales, on behalf of NHS Health Boards across Wales, is to establish a new multi-vendor framework for electronic prescribing and medicines administration solutions. Aiming to establish a framework agreement where NHS organisations on a local basis can call off their requirements, the scope will include software […]
PRSB publishes information sharing standards to support diabetes management
The Professionals Record Standards Body (PRSB) has released new information sharing standards to support diabetes management. The development of the standards comes in response to “information about a person’s diabetes… not all being digitally shared between the different professionals involved in their care,” PRSB states. The body also notes “inconsistency in […]
HTN Let’s Talk: The role of digital in supporting the Humber Teaching NHS green strategy
Welcome to our brand new podcast HTN Let’s Talk, supported by Spirit Health! In episode one, we explore how digital is supporting sustainability and a greener NHS. HTN’s Katie Smith speaks with Alex Fowler (Environmental Manager), Stephen Roberts (Environmental and Waste Manager) and Lee Rickles (Yorkshire and Humber Care Record […]
Feature: Director of Health Informatics James Rawlinson on the role of digital for a greener NHS
As part of a new feature series focusing on how digital and technology can support healthcare providers achieve their targets set out in their greener NHS plans, we spoke to James Rawlinson, Director of Health Informatics from Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. We discussed the trust’s green strategy, the digital projects […]
£25million digital social care fund for ICSs
The Digitising Social Care programme, a unit within the NHS Transformation Directorate, is making £25 million available to Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in 2022/23 to support adult social care in digitising. The investment forms part of the Plan for Digital Health and Care and funding announced in June to support digital […]
