Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, covering four acute trusts, has contracted Patients Know Best for a digital patient portal to March 2027. The programme will span York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and […]
Author: Jennifer Turton
HTN Now: The Dudley Group and Essex Partnership on best practices with EPMA
For a recent HTN Now webinar, we explored the impact of EMPA, taking a closer look at its role in increasing efficiency and accuracy in prescribing, in improving patient safety, and some of the challenges with introducing and implementing EPMA systems. Our expert panellists, Fhezan Ashraf, senior pharmacist clinical configuration […]
Cancer tool built into federated data platform announced
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a centralised system for cancer patients, built into the Federated Data Platform, the tool is said to bring cancer patient information together. The Cancer 360 tool collates data points across tests, appointments and treatments, displayed via a dashboard. DHSC highlights how […]
Panel discussion: Tackling the challenge of paper records; considerations, approaches and learnings
For a recent HTN panel discussion, we explored how organisations are tackling the challenges of paper and digital records, with the help of expert panellists including Stacey Sutherland, clinical digital documentation lead and change lead for trust-wide division at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) and Chesterfield Royal Hospital; […]
NHS service standard updated to improve responsiveness of online services to risks of domestic abuse
Updates have been made to the NHS service standard to improve the responsiveness of NHS online services to the risks of domestic abuse and coercive control, after the need for new guidance “became clear” during work to support patients with proxy access. “As we consider the future of proxy access,” […]
National ADHD data improvement plan sets out roadmap for reporting and use of data
NHS England has published an ADHD data improvement plan, with a roadmap setting out planned actions to improve data quality and introduce regular reporting. “We know our ADHD service provision has not kept pace with demand and there is a need to improve access, experience and outcomes,” the plan states, […]
HTN Now: How can we digitally empower patients?
An expert panel including Tom Davis, UK country manager and medical director at Livi, Dan Bunstone, clinical director at Warrington ICB, and Ananya Datta, associate director of primary care digital delivery at South East London ICS (SEL), joined us for a recent HTN webinar exploring the role of digital in […]
£5.5 million funding for regulators and local authorities to support innovation
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has launched a new round of the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, offering up to £5.5 million in total funding for innovation in critical sectors and helping support the delivery of the Plan for Change. The latest round of funding is open to regulators and […]
HTN Now: Automation meets infection control: Reducing SSIs in surgery
HTN was joined by a panel of leading experts in surgical site infection (SSI) care for an insightful discussion on how digital innovation is reshaping clinical practice and improving patient outcomes. The session shared practical advice on reducing SSIs with digital pathways, ensuring effective surveillance, how a digital approach to […]
Google launches new open model for health app developers
Google Health has launched a new open model for health app developers, described as its “most capable open model for multimodal medical text and image comprehension”, built on Gemma 3. Potential use cases include medical image classification, medical image interpretation, and medical text comprehension and clinical reasoning. In a LinkedIn […]
