Author: Jennifer Turton

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NHS Medway clinical strategy highlights digital and data plans including frailty virtual ward and electronic pharmacy systems

Medway NHS Foundation Trust has published its clinical strategy for 2024 – 2027, mapping future clinical services and defining how the trust intends to “advance and innovate to provide the best possible healthcare services” for residents, including utilising digitally enabled care, AI in diagnostics and tech to support clinical pathways. […]

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Royal Sussex County Hospital launches Health Information Point pilot

Royal Sussex County Hospital has launched a new Health Information Point (HIP) pilot with the aim of providing free, confidential health information to patients, carers, hospital staff and volunteers, supported by patient education knowledge specialists. The service will be staffed by a team “with expertise in health information enquiries” and […]

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Panel discussion: the future of patient portals – “the decisions in design and technology implementation we take now, will critically impact the future of healthcare delivery”

For our latest HTN Now panel discussion, we were joined by Manzoor Ahmed, patient and public involvement leader at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; Adrian Byrne, ex-CIO of University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust and ex-chair of the national CIO Network; and Dr Gege Gatt, CEO at EBO. Panellists discussed a […]

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Panel discussion: how to confidently deliver remote care at scale

For HTN Now, we were joined by panellists including Ricardo Pereira, associate director of transformation at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Dr Gorana Kovacevic, clinical lead for Hospital at Home at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire; and Chris Taylor, director of partnerships at Isla Health. Our panel shared their insight […]

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Microsoft AI to launch new AI hub in London

Microsoft AI has announced that it will shortly be launching a new Microsoft AI hub in London, marking “significant, long-term investment” in the region and a push to hire “the best AI scientists and engineers” in the field. The hub builds on Microsoft’s recent commitment to upskilling the UK workforce […]