Heather Cook, the Interim UK Director of Big Health, and Dr Masood Nazir, a GP in Birmingham and the Director of Primary Care for the NHS Transformation Directorate, led a discussion focusing on digital treatment for mental health needs, at HTN’s latest Digital Primary Care conference. Joining the duo on […]
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Feature: How Malinko is putting community services at the centre of NHS data strategy
As part of our focus on data strategy, HTN spoke to Malinko, to find out about their caseload management system, their partnership with NHS Wales, their goals for the future, and the importance of community health data sets for the NHS. We were joined for a virtual chat by Rob McGovern, Malinko’s […]
Opinion: Trusts to HIMSS5 by December 2023: will they make it this time?
Feature by Highland Marketing Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid has announced a new target to complete the digitisation of the acute sector. The Highland Marketing advisory board discussed the approach being developed by NHS England’s transformation directorate, and the challenges to making it work. In the first week […]
Significant rise in telephone appointments in general practice, NHS Digital data highlights
NHS Digital has published data this month on the number of general practice appointments held in February 2022, including the type of appointment. Comparing the total number of appointments with data before the pandemic, it shows over 2.2 million more general practice appointments were held in February 2022 than February 2019. […]
Feature: ICSs adopt connected workforce platform for system resilience
As part of HTN’s feature series focussing on Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), and how practical digital solutions and programmes are supporting local system working, we’re take a closer look at Lantum, a digital workforce management solution on a mission to tackle the costs spent on temporary staffing. They’re already working with 19 […]
Community trust to introduce patient flow tech across 6 hospitals
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust has signed a deal with Alcidion to implement the company’s patient flow tech. The community trust is set to introduce Miya Flow to provide interactive dashboards across its six community hospitals, and support staff with live data to manage bed capacity, visibility […]
News in Brief: £30m AI fund raise, Wales pilots new virtual mental health pathway, CNWL rolls-out audit app
Our news in brief covers a wide range of stories – from a roll out of an audit app across a trust’s inpatient sites, new AI technology for chest X-rays and predicting outcomes, and a £30.4 million funding raise for an AI company – but that’s not all. Here’s our round-up of the […]
NHS Innovation Accelerator 2022 cohort announced
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) announced the 10 innovators who will be supported to spread their innovations in the NHS over the next three years. The selected innovations range from a solution to support common types of hearing loss in children, digital assessment tools, AI clinical support and a musculoskeletal […]
NHS Blood and Transplant launch new strategy
NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a new strategy covering the next four years, from 2022 to 2026. The strategy details how the organisation will modernise its operations, improve its use of data, as well as how it plans to respond to emerging technologies and consumer trends. It states plans […]
Black Country and West Birmingham ICS set for shared care record
Black Country and West Birmingham ICS is set to introduce its shared care record working with Graphnet Health. The ICS has partnered with Graphnet to deliver the shared record across Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell and West Birmingham, to cover 1.5 million residents across the area. Once the project is complete, […]
