North East and North Cumbria ICS (NENC) has published its first green plan, sharing an ambition to become the greenest region in England by 2030. In their strategy, they outline the action they are taking to reduce their environmental footprint by reducing waste, using electric vehicles, converting to more sustainable […]
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Allied Health Professions new strategy with digital and data focus
An Allied Health Professions (AHP) strategy for England has been released entitled “AHPs Deliver” which is set to support the 14 distinct occupations of the AHP workforce. The purpose of the strategy is to provide a direction to the AHP community, with the aim of delivering quality care, improving health […]
Northern Care Alliance to assess root cause and lessons learned from IT issues
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed the “IT issues affecting a number of clinical and non-clinical digital IT systems have now been fully resolved.” The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury and Rochdale Infirmary (run by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust), and North Manchester […]
HTN Now: system-wide access to patient records
At our two-day HTN Now event, focusing on electronic patient records, digital strategy, transformation and change, we were joined by Vijay Magon, CEO of CCube Solutions. Vijay led a session discussing how digital medical records are in daily use, can improve patient care, and save money. He began the session […]
System C appoints Healthcare Managing Director
System C has appointed Guy Lucchi as their new Managing Director of Healthcare, leading the healthcare division with a particular focus on supporting the company’s customers to achieve higher levels of digitisation. Guy Lucchi was previously joint Digital Innovation Director for Health Innovation Manchester and Chief Digital Officer for the […]
NHS England opens expressions of interest for Discharge Integration Frontrunner sites
NHS England and NHS Improvement are inviting expressions of interest from local systems to become Discharge Integration Frontrunner sites. The aim of the programme is to develop, design and test new approaches and service models for discharging people from acute care, which could include new funding models, workforce models, or […]
Industry View: healthcare experts react to the new health and social care data strategy
In our latest HTN industry view, we sent out a call for comment to explore wider views on the Department of Health and Social Care’s new data strategy entitled ‘Data saves lives: Reshaping health and social care with data’. We received a broad range of replies from healthcare and technology […]
‘Once for Scotland’ tech assessment and roll-out initiative launches
NHS Scotland is today launching a new initiative with the aim to speed-up the development, assessment and roll-out of innovations across its health and care settings. Through its Accelerated National Innovation Adoption pathway, the initiative is designed to assess, prioritise and support innovations to scale, in an approach termed ‘Once for […]
Chatbot tech helps Lancashire and South Cumbria tackle patient waiting lists
Chatbot technology has been used across Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS to help tackle elective care waiting lists. The system guides patients through a series of questions to establish if their condition has changed, if they require treatment sooner, or if they no longer require treatment. Following a pilot with […]
Innovate UK to open £30 million net zero and healthcare fund
Innovate UK is to open a new funding programme to support small and micro businesses with up to £50,000, as part of a £30 million funding programme. The programme hopes to attract innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation, with a focus on supporting the UK’s net zero targets […]
