For the latest edition of our industry view series, we sent out a call for comment to hear the views of industry leaders on the new draft Standards and Interoperability Strategy released by the Transformation Directorate at NHS England and NHS Improvement. We received a wide range of replies, here’s […]
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Interview Series: David Newey, Chief Information Officer, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Next up in the HTN Interview Series, we explore bias with artificial intelligence and speak to David Newey, the Chief Information Officer at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to hear about what bias is, the different types, and what the future of AI could look like… We start by […]
NHS Transformation Directorate opens Digital Innovation Partnership funding round three
The NHS Transformation Directorate has opened round three of its Digital Innovation Partnership Awards, a scheme created to help NHS organisations in England bid for funding to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies. The programme focuses on technologies that support people at home, including tools to support self-management of long-term […]
Becton Dickinson funding deal for Isla post-surgery wound assessment tool
Becton Dickinson, a medical tech company, has singed a funding deal with Isla Care to further develop the company’s platform focused to support the assessment of post-surgery wounds. The technology is used by patients and clinicians after surgery, to monitor wounds at home in the hope that it will encourage early detection […]
£12 million allocated as part of Digital Productivity Fund
The NHS Transformation Directorate’s Digital Productivity Programme has allocated £12 million in funding, with a focus on automation, real time location systems, and extended reality. The programme is also supporting ‘other productivity-improving technologies’, including surgery pods, no-code development tools, e-rostering, scheduling and care planning tools, remote monitoring, digital dictation, digital […]
Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership goes live with single waiting list platform across the ICS
Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership has gone live with a data management platform from Insource, to provide a single system-wide patient tracking list. Part of the ICS’s wider elective recovery programme, the platform provides visibility of patients from referral to treatment waiting lists across three acute sites and […]
Nuffield Trust publishes lessons learned to support patient engagement with digital innovations
The Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, has published a new report following an evaluation to explore the factors that support patient and staff engagement in the use of digital healthcare innovations. The paper, ‘Supporting patient engagement with digital health care innovations: Lessons from the Care City test bed’, produced […]
Feature: How is patient flow changing for the NHS?
Responsibility for patient flow is no longer just a nursing task – it is everyone’s responsibility. Katy Cain, clinical consultant for smart health technology provider Alcidion, explores changes in the way patient flow is being managed to respond to NHS pressures, maximise capacity and improve patient outcomes. As a senior […]
Dartford and Gravesham introduces tech for emergency department staff
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has signed a deal with Alcidion to implement two new technologies from the company to support emergency department staff. The trust will introduce Miya Emergency, a solution to provide clinical decision support functionality, that ‘proactively suggests appropriate actions and automates routine tasks for clinical teams’. The second […]
NHSE publishes guidance for ICSs to introduce virtual ward model
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance to support all Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) with virtual ward programmes. The guidance, entitled “supporting information for ICS leads: enablers for success: virtual wards including hospital at home” comes in support of NHSEI asking all ICSs to extend or introduce the virtual […]
