The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £3 million in funding to support four transformation projects in adult social care. Through the Adult Social Care Technology Fund, four projects have been identified, including a digital fall prevention programme, sensors to monitor a person’s daily habits, virtual care delivery, […]
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Prescription management, long-term conditions, and new patient registrations in focus for improving care navigation in general practice
NHS England’s Primary Care Transformation team has published a guide focusing on prescription management, long-term conditions and new patient registrations as part of support to improve care related processes in general practice. For improving prescription management, the guidance places focus on increasing uptake of the NHS App or other patient […]
NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme opens for innovators
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme has opened applications for the latest cohort to join its free entrepreneurial workforce development programme for NHS staff and healthcare professionals. The programme forms part of the Accelerated Access Collaborative, and is delivered by Anglia Ruskin University, to support innovators to pursue their ideas or innovations, without […]
Interview: Paul Tambeau, chief executive officer of Induction Healthcare
FEATURED INTERVIEW 12 November, 2023 09:00am This week, we’re focusing on patient engagement portals. We spoke with Paul Tambeau, chief executive officer of Induction Healthcare, to hear his perspective. Hi Paul, can you introduce yourself and tell me a bit about Induction Healthcare? “At Induction Healthcare, we are at the […]
ICSs invited to bid for share of £30 million tech fund
The Department of Health and Social Care has opened a £30 million funding programme inviting integrated care systems to submit bids for digital projects. The funding opportunity is based on local need, which the Government notes could cover technology to support wait lists, virtual wards, wearable devices to monitor chronic conditions […]
Buckinghamshire connects surgical wait lists with shared care record
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has collaborated with Graphnet Health to pilot a population health dashboard that combines its surgical waiting lists with the Buckinghamshire Shared Care Record. Formed and launched earlier this year to enable targeted preoperative support, the dashboard is said to support “identification of high-risk surgical patients”, to provide targeted […]
Agilio acquires primary care specialist iatro
Agilio Software has announced its latest acquisition of iatro, a specialist digital primary care supplier. The company said the acquisition will enhance its patient engagement software offering, levering the “significant amount of information that is held on Agilio’s TeamNet required for patient communications and being published on GP websites”. The company […]
Interview: Cynerio’s Daniel Brodie on healthcare cyber risks, improving protections, and the promises of generative AI
In 2017 Daniel Brodie began studying the now infamous WannaCry attack which impacted hospitals worldwide. As his research progressed one theme became obvious – facilities routinely deployed hundreds of medical devices on their networks with minimal security protections. Fueled by the challenge of securing healthcare and insight from family members […]
Primary care virtual consultations increase to 597,670 in August
NHS England has released its publication of appointments in general practice for August 2023, noting a 447,673 increase in the number of video/online appointments in August 2023, from August 2022. Representing 2.11 percent of the total of 28,194,025 appointments in general practice in August 2023, 597,670 video/online appointments were recorded […]
Markets authority clears £1.2 billion EMIS purchase
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared UnitedHealth’s £1.2bn purchase of EMIS. In August, the CMA provisionally cleared and found no competition concerns for the proposed deal, leading to a final confirmation announcement on 29 September 2023 that “the transaction does not raise competition concerns” and has “cleared the deal […]
