A team of around 40 healthcare professionals and legal experts have issued guidance for type 1 diabetes patients using ‘Do-It-Yourself’ artificial pancreas technology to manage their condition. According to King’s College London, whose academics co-led with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT on the recent paper published in The Lancet Diabetes […]
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News in Brief: NHSX backs digital back pain pathway, home test for breast cancer patients, mental health videos
This week we’ve covered a range of health tech news, including nine projects being announced to support analytics research into COVID-19, a new tender put out for work on Equality Impact Assessments in innovation, and the publication of the first research paper to use data from the Greater Manchester Care […]
Invitation to tender for new research project into Equality Impact Assessments
The NHS Race and Health Observatory (RHO), an independent organisation which works to identify, explore and tackle ethnic inequalities in healthcare, has put out an invitation to tender for research into how tech, treatments and innovations are impacted by Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs). The Observatory, which is supported by NHS […]
Case Study: How a SilverCloud project saved Greater Manchester HSCP 29,070 hours of staff time
As part of our latest case study feature, the digital mental health provider SilverCloud has shared the outcomes of its work with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP), which revolved around bridging the silos in mental health resource to meet increasing demand. Comprised of 10 CCGs, NHS trusts, […]
Video: Why training needs to be paired with change management
We continue our recap of HTN Now November with a look back at Ideal Health’s live webcast on why digital training needs to go-hand-in-hand with a change management programme. The presentation – which focused on how best to achieve good digital adoption – was given by the Ideal Health team […]
Canadian health network addressing inequity by prescribing phones to patients
The University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada, has taken a tech-based approach to tackling health inequity by prescribing mobile phones for patients who need better access to services. Entitled PHONE-CONNECT, the study and programme focuses on addressing issues such as poor COVID-19 outcomes for members of the public from […]
Case study published on Berkshire Healthcare NHS FT’s ‘digital first’ approach
Healthcare Communications has published a new case study on its work to craft a ‘digital first’ future with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHNFT). Focusing on patient engagement technology, the report details how BHNFT – a community and mental health trust which serves a population of around 900,000 – sought […]
Video: Liverpool Women’s Hospital on the importance of clinical leadership in digital transformation
Dr Natalie Canham, Chief Clinical Information Officer, and Matt Connor, Chief Information Officer, both from Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, raised the curtain on HTN Now November with a 9am session on the importance of clinical leadership within digital transformation. The duo gave a wide-ranging presentation, covering where clinical engagement […]
Physio platform and GP tool among innovations in latest Yorkshire & Humber AHSN digital accelerator
A physiotherapy platform, a GP tool and a social prescribing management system are among the Yorkshire-based innovations that have been selected for the Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network’s (YHAHSN) digital health accelerator programme, Propel@YH. The AHSN, which acts as an innovation arm of the NHS, chose 10 Small-Medium […]
Humber NHS chosen to pilot EPR mental health programme for NHSX
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has been selected to pilot an NHSX EPR programme across its digital mental health services. Officially called the ‘EPR Innovator Project for Mental Health and Community Trusts’, the project is part of the organisation’s wider Digital Aspirant Plus (DA+) programme, which includes just seven NHS […]
