The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is hosting a new study which will trial a digital self-help tool for men experiencing side effects from prostate cancer treatment. MANCAN2 (MANaging symptoms during CANcer treatment) will investigate the effectiveness of a virtual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) intervention on ‘reducing the impact of […]
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HEE develops toolkits to support adult social care digital champions
Health Education England (HEE) has created two toolkits to help embed digital skills, confidence and best practice within the health and care workforce. HEE cites research from Lloyds Bank’s UK Consumer 2020 Index, which estimates that 52 per cent of ‘people in the [UK] workforce lack digital skills in the workplace’ […]
NHSX Chief Exec reveals thoughts on integration with NHS England
Matthew Gould, NHSX’s Chief Executive, has officially addressed the organisation’s integration with the Transformation Directorate at NHS England (NHSE). It was originally revealed that NHSX, which develops NHS best practice for technology, digital and data, would be merged into NHSE last November, with HTN then gathering an ‘industry view’ collection […]
Five-year GOSH partnership to create personalised healthcare for children
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) has embarked upon a five-year collaborative working agreement to establish a new Clinical Informatics and Innovation Unit. The partnership with Roche Products Limited is intended to move the specialist children’s trust ‘closer to personalised healthcare for children’ through both the […]
Video: Humber, Coast and Vale on a Shared Care Records journey
As part of our focus on Shared Care Records this month, we’re recapping a fantastic live session delivered by the Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership (HCV) at HTN Now. In the webcast, the team from Humber, Coast and Vale took HTN and the audience along on a […]
Royal College of Nursing releases COVID risk assessment tool
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has launched a risk assessment tool to help aid local decision making on the level of personal protective equipment (PPE) required to protect them whilst at work. The tool, created in collaboration with the COVID Airborne Protection Alliance (CAPA) and the British Occupational Hygiene Society, […]
HEE commissions roadmap and dashboard to track spread of AI technologies
Health Education England (HEE) has commissioned a new artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap and interactive dashboard from the company Unity Insights, which provides bespoke analytics and evaluation services to the NHS. As well as ‘exploring the use and impact of AI in the NHS’, the report ‘examines the effects on workforce […]
News in Brief: Royal Papworth introduces GP Connect, remote robotic surgery research, Scotland’s app to access free period products
Welcome to our first news in brief round-up for February. This week has already seen HTN HQ announce the Health Tech Awards 2022 – now open for entries – while, in other news, the Department of Health and Social Care has published a ‘prior information notice’ for its Tech Innovation […]
Video: The dangers of bias in artificial intelligence and how it adversely affects communities
At our latest HTN Now event, we welcomed David Newey, Deputy Chief Information Officer at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to talk about bias in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Considering the recent advances in studying and utilising AI within the health and care sector, David discussed a hugely topical issue, […]
New guides released for NHS video consultations
NHS England has published a new set of video consulting guides – produced by the University of Oxford – to support patients, staff and NHS trusts to implement and embed video consultations. The collection of resources include: an illustrated A4 guide for patients in English; illustrated guides for patients in […]
