Hosting our closing session at the recent HTN Digital Primary Care 2022 conference, we welcomed Dr Mala Ubhi, a GP in Gloucestershire and Clinical Advisor for Digital Productivity in NHSE/I, and Christopher McLlveen, a Patient and Public Voice partner for the Transformation Directorate at NHSE/I. In her talk she discussed […]
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Health Tech Trends Series 2022, we would love to hear from you!
HTN’s Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, is back for the first round of questions for 2022! At HTN, our aim for the series is to produce a range of features and insight articles, seeking a wide range of views and opinions – and we would love your help […]
Policy Exchange publishes proposal for digital general practice and redesigning ‘first-contact’
The Policy Exchange has published a set of proposals which focus on how general practice and digital healthcare should be reformed. Entitled ‘At Your Service: A proposal to reform general practice and enable digital healthcare at scale’, the 98-page document addresses integration, workforce, digital transformation, and scaled provision, as well […]
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT accredited as GDE
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT has announced the formal accreditation from NHS England as a Global Digital Exemplar, and confirmation its achieved HIMSS EMRAM level 5. The trust embarked on the programme in 2017, when selected as one of seven mental health trusts to receive funding to become a Global Digital […]
News in Brief: Chase Farm HIMSS EMRAM stage 7, HEE Digital Health Leadership, Leeds digital interns…
This week at HTN, we covered the news of 128 successful bids as part of the Digital Maternity Fund, explored Sajid Javid’s speech where he set out a vision for the NHS from a digital perspective, and also published our keynote talk from HTN Digital Primary Care with Dr Minal Bakhai […]
128 successful bids to the Digital Maternity Fund
NHS England and Improvement’s Digital Maternity Fund has awarded 128 bids funding to support the digitisation of maternity services across England. Some of the trusts to secure funding include Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT who have been awarded £208,000, Birmingham Women’s Hospital awarded £500,000, and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over […]
12 health tech start-ups join Amazon Web Services accelerator
Amazon Web Services has announced 12 health tech start-ups to join its first healthcare accelerator programme. The 12 start-ups have been selected following 117 applications from 13 countries, by a panel from Amazon Web Services and PUBLIC. The tech firms will now join a four-week programme aimed to provide ‘technical, […]
Sajid Javid sets out vision for the NHS underpinned by digital
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid delivered a speech (8 March 2022) at the Royal College of Physicians, London, setting our his vision for the NHS. The speech set out priorities for health reform, including underlying principles, as well as the role of digital, and themes including the right to choose, […]
Video: Dr Minal Bakhai keynote, transforming the model of general practice
Dr Minal Bakhai, Clinical Director for General Practice Transformation and Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement, delivered one of the two keynote speeches at HTN Digital Primary Care 2022. Focusing her talk on ‘transforming the model of general practice’, Dr Bakhai discussed the changes in access […]
Dumfries and Galloway completes GP data sharing pilot
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has completed a pilot project using the Medical Interoperability Gateway to connect health providers with GP data in the region. The Health Board is the first in Scotland to roll-out the technology, which provides access to patient data from 31 GP practices, through the Orion patient portal. […]
