NHS National Services Scotland has awarded a £40 million contract to Citadel Health to establish a framework for a laboratory information management system for all NHS health boards in Scotland. The 10-year framework agreement will provide laboratory information management services for 11 NHS health boards, allowing up to 5 years for all health […]
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Holly Health raises £1.4m and partners with Age UK
Holly Health, a digital health coach to support behaviour change, has raised £1.4 million in funding from investors. The funding will be used to support the company’s work into sustainable behavioural change across populations and to tailor its digital health coach for healthy ageing support. Age UK Lewisham and Southwark has partnered […]
Health Technology Wales search for new digital solutions
Health Technology Wales, a national body within NHS Wales to support partner collaboration, has commenced a ‘digital open topic call’ to identify new digital health technologies for Wales to solve current health and care challenges. They are inviting different professionals from health and social care, technology developers and members of […]
Two Cheshire trusts to share electronic patient record system
Two NHS trusts in Cheshire have revealed plans to share an electronic patient record system. East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS FT plan to introduce one system, known as the Digital Clinical System (DCS), across the two trusts. The trusts have signed a contract with electronic patient record […]
Sussex ICS adopts new data tool to support bowel cancer screening
Sussex Integrated Care System (ICS) has worked with South, Central and West (SCW) to adopt a new tool to support its bowel screening programme. The ICS has been working with SCW’s geospatial team on a web application to identify hotspots of low bowel screening uptake and high cancer positivity rates within […]
Newcastle Hospitals digital initiative tackles waiting lists, audiology team new digital pathway
Digital transformation is happening across Newcastle Hospitals, with an initiative to tackle waiting lists, a virtual trial for patients with irritable bowel syndrome, and a digital pathway for the audiology team. The trust’s strategy, taking them through to 2024, states that they are “committed to becoming a fully digitally enabled […]
£20 million framework for digital flexible staff pools in primary care
NHS England has opened a £20 million framework procurement for local systems to deploy digital flexible staff pools to support clinical capacity in primary care. Suppliers who offer a digital solution are now being invited to apply to the framework, initially focusing on the deployment of GPs, to enable practices to post […]
News in Brief: laboratory automation agreement, tablets for mental health patients, new North Tees control centre and more
It’s time for another news in brief, and as usual it has been busy in the health tech community this week! Read on to find out some of the top stories from the past few days… New app to boost staff sharing across Bristol, Somerset and Gloucestershire A new collaborative […]
Home health tech platform raises £24.7 million
Home health tech supplier Birdie has raised £24.7 million in Series B funding, taking the total raised by the company to £42.8 million. Focusing on the care industry, the company’s mission is to ‘reinvent home healthcare and empower older generations’ by using its software platform. The tech supports care visits […]
Mixed reality company launches holographic scenarios for common respiratory conditions
Tech supplier GigXR, through a partnership with the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT, has launched its first augmented reality module, providing holographic scenarios for common respiratory conditions and emergencies. The mixed reality application called HoloScenarios, includes asthma, anaphylaxis, pulmonary embolism and pneumonia training scenarios, that have been […]
