The Department of Health & Social has opened a call for feedback on emerging ideas for change, as part of the Change NHS initiative launched in October 2024. The NHS App and a single digital care record for patients, are in focus. Following more than 175,000 change idea submissions, a […]
Author: Jennifer Turton
North Central London ICB digital diagnostics 5-year strategy focuses on digital workflows, data flows, and the potential for AI
North Central London ICB’s Digital Diagnostics Strategy for 2025 – 2030 outlines plans to upgrade infrastructure, digitise workflows, equip staff with “intuitive tools”, and leverage AI and advanced analytics. The ICB presents a roadmap for delivering digital diagnostics, with focuses for year one including single order comms for pathology and […]
ICB framework focuses on Advice and Guidance maturity level, use and quality
Aiming to address “considerable variation in how Advice and Guidance is applied, delivered and monitored”, a framework intending to provide a tool to support ICBs on effective implementation has been published. From April 2025, all ICBs will be required to submit quarterly progress of Advice and Guidance, providing a maturity […]
UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill focuses on supply chain security and enhancing cyber oversight
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has outlined plans for the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, noting measures to enhance oversight, regulating the supply chain, and progressing CAF’s basic and enhanced profiles. It first looks to bring more entities under the scope of the regulatory framework, to “better recognise […]
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare awards £102,000 deal for solution to support Talking Therapies
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has announced a contract award of £102,000 for a one-year deal to London-based Dr Julian Medical Group Ltd for Talking Therapies third party provision. The notice shares that the trust required an “innovative, efficient, and effective solution to support and enhance […]
Alzheimer’s Society announces support for 12 innovations
The Alzheimer’s Society has announced the first cohort of innovations selected for its launchpad programme, supporting tools such as an immersive reminiscence platform, an interactive memory playback app, and a tool to predict and prevent people experiencing distress. Aiming to address challenges connected to hospitalisation for those living with dementia, […]
AI tool tested to automate biopsy analysis for coeliac diagnosis in Cambridge
A research programme in Cambridge, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, is supporting Lyzeum Ltd, a spinout from the University of Cambridge, to commercialise its AI tool that aims to accelerate coeliac diagnosis. Led by Professor Liz Soilleux, honorary consultant pathologist at CUH and professor of […]
Greater Manchester Mental Health awards £572,000 patient engagement portal contract
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract worth £572,000 to DrDoctor for the provision of a patient engagement portal. In a contract award notice published last week, the trust shared details of the contract award, described as the “provision of services for patient engagement tools, consumables, […]
System-wide approach to cyber security highlighted by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
Chris Ibell, CDIO at Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB, offered an update on the cyber security status at the ICB’s latest meeting, outlining the cyber risk to its organisations, and sharing plans to focus on an integrated care system approach to incident response planning. The update follows a cyber crisis simulation […]
NHS Scotland’s operational improvement plan: health and social care app roll-out, national digital dermatology
NHS Scotland’s operational improvement plan has been published, focusing on the roll-out of its health and social care app, the “digital front door” to health and care, taking a “stronger digital first approach”, and “further harnessing the benefits” of digital tech and innovation. The operational plan notes the national roll-out […]
