Sunderland City Council is the first local authority in the North East and North Cumbria area to connect to the health information exchange across the region. 400 GP practices, five NHS trusts and the North East Ambulance Service are connected to the system, with Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust being […]
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NHS appoints Transformation Directorate lead
NHS England and NHS Improvement have appointed Dr Timothy Ferris as director of transformation, to lead the organisation’s new Transformation Directorate. The new directorate brings the Improvement programme within NHSE, leading on outpatient transformation programmes, together with digital teams from NHSX. One of the reasons behind the two units joining […]
Radar Healthcare achieves compliance with national Patient Safety Incident Management system
A new national Patient Safety Incident Management system (PSIMS) is planned to be introduced in Spring 2021. Ahead of the launch of the system, Radar Healthcare has passed compliance testing with NHS Improvement. The new system from NHS Improvement will be introduced to replace the current National Reporting and Learning […]
New digital strategy for Wales launched
A new policy and strategy document for Wales has been published to provide a direction and vision for the country to fully embrace digital. The strategy outlines how the country will use digital, data and technology to improve the lives of people in Wales. It is aimed at anyone creating, designing, providing […]
National digital midwife role launched
NHSX has launched a new position to recruit a digital midwife to support its strategy at a regional and national level. It’s aimed at a registered midwife with data management and informatics skills, to support health and care services to improve the outcomes for pregnant women and address health inequalities. […]
Join us live in three weeks’ time for HTN Now April
In three weeks’ time, HTN Now is back for another series of engaging, practical and insightful sessions where we welcome leaders from across health and care to share their work. Join us for 13 sessions, features and video interviews from 13-16 April, where we cover a range of subject areas […]
Confidence in data published on PHE COVID-19 dashboard increases from 47% to 90%
In March 2020, Public Health England (PHE) published an interactive dashboard to highlight the spread of COVID-19 and an overview of the pandemic situation as it changed. More recently, it also provided the ability to track vaccination-related data. The dashboard has been widely used, PHE said, highlighting that ‘during the […]
Case Study: Radar Healthcare incident and risk management system implemented at Somerset NHS FT
View the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust full case study here. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust went out to tender for a risk management system, following a merger of two NHS trusts into one body. The trust wanted to procure one system to be: customisable for their complex needs use data effectively […]
University College London Hospitals announces collaboration with Microsoft
University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS FT has announced a research and innovation collaboration with Microsoft to develop and apply advances in artificial intelligence and digital technologies. The partnership will see the two organisations develop AI algorithms and applications to help improve patient flow, support medical imaging and automate time […]
Dr Nicola Byrne announced as the next National Data Guardian
Dr Nicola Byrne has been officially announced as the next National Data Guardian for health and social care in England. Dr Byrne becomes the second person to take up the role of National Data Guardian (NDG), following Dame Fiona Caldicott who sadly passed away last month and was instrumental in […]
