HTN is delighted to launch the Health Tech Awards 2022 to share and celebrate digital teams, programmes, innovations and health tech suppliers that have made a difference throughout the year. The innovative awards, now in their sixth year, provide a great platform to showcase and share your work. There are […]
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DHSC publishes Tech Innovation Framework notice for GP IT
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a ‘prior information notice’ for its Tech Innovation Framework, to advise the market of a forthcoming opportunity for foundation electronic patient record solutions and associated capabilities, for primary care. The new Tech Innovation Framework hopes to ‘encourage innovation’ and ‘news ways of […]
Humber, Coast and Vale ICS launches online mental health support
Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership has launched a new online support programme to support individuals across the area with their mental health. The ICS has introduced Qwell by Kooth, a free online mental health and emotional wellbeing support service, providing anonymous online counselling that can be accessed anywhere. […]
Health Education England launches evidence and knowledge portal
Health Education England (HEE) has launched a new online portal this month, to provide NHS staff and others with access to published evidence and research. Called the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub, it hopes to connect staff and learners with a wide range of knowledge, evidence, resources, services and databases […]
South East London ICS launches scheme to improve digital access
NHS South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) has launched a new scheme to improve digital access for people with learning disabilities or severe mental illness. As part of a £60,000 project, funded by ‘Digital First Primary Care’ run by NHS England and NHS Improvement, the programme focuses on improving digital access […]
NHS Digital publishes API roadmap and seeks developer feedback
NHS Digital has opened a new survey calling for feedback from developers working on health and care products to support the NHS Digital API Management team. The survey follows the publication last month of NHS Digital’s vision and roadmap for API management, and aims to improve the support that’s offered […]
New support for ‘digital carers’ in Walsall
Black Country and West Birmingham CCG has launched a new initiative to provide additional support for carers to make use of digital health tools. Working with digital transformation company, Healthwave, who specialise in supporting the uptake of digital tools and inclusion with services, the programme has been developed to support carers […]
NICE to allow more ‘flexibility’ in evaluation of new health technologies
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) board has approved a number of changes to how medicines and health technologies are evaluated for use in the NHS. The move is expected to signal ‘commitment to greater flexibility’ in the organisation’s evaluation of promising new health technologies and aims […]
CNWL live with EPMA and adopts QR code tech
This month, Central and North West London NHS FT (CNWL) has now gone live with its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system across all acute admission mental health wards. The trust has also launched a new project utilising videos and QR code technologies to provide medicines information. The trust […]
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s trials VR tech
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is trialing virtual reality (VR) technology, with a view to helping reduce anxiety during medical procedures for young people and children. By introducing VR, the trust hopes it will play a role to help make injections ‘less scary’ for patients, and help to […]
