Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a new video game designed to help boost recruitment for pharmacy roles. The game features virtual patients who must be given the right medication as prescribed by a virtual doctor, in a race against […]
Author: Jennifer Turton
HTN Now: developing a blueprint for an online mental health support programme
For a recent HTN Now webinar, we were joined by members of the NHS England Blueprinting Programme to explore good practice around implementing digital healthcare solutions, with a case study from the Support Hope and Recovery Online Network (SHaRON) programme, which offers online mental health support. Paul Charnley, chair of […]
Applications open for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s innovation fellowship
Applications have opened for the latest round of the CW Innovation Horizon Fellowship programme, designed to encourage staff across Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to share innovative project ideas around improving patient care and experience. The fellowship offers a range of support for staff, including provision for peer-to-peer […]
Royal Free London clinical strategy highlights plans around population health data, AI in imaging and diagnostics, and more
Royal Free London (RFL) NHS Foundation Trust has launched its new clinical strategy, highlighting the role of new technologies, EPR and improved data and digital services in helping to create a “blueprint to deliver world-leading healthcare”. The strategy is centred around three group clinical priorities: cancer, cardiovascular, and organ failure […]
Jas Purewal, cyber consultant at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital: “getting board and senior management buy-in has been key”
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS partnered with cyber security specialist Cynerio to introduce its healthcare cyber security platform, to provide visibility, meet Data Security and Protection Toolkit targets and other requirements, and support network segmentation. HTN spoke with Jas Purewal, cyber consultant at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital, to […]
Planning approval for new digital and net zero hospital in NHS Lanarkshire
Planning permission has been granted for a new digital and sustianable hospital in Airdrie, Scotland, following a meeting of North Lanarkshire Council. The fully digital hospital is viewed as an opportunity to create a hospital fit for challenges now and in the future, using digital tech to “assist in clinical, […]
The Christie exploring potential of VR to reduce anxiety for children undergoing radiotherapy
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust has launched a two year project to explore whether using virtual reality can help to reduce anxiety for children undergoing cancer treatment, using a headset classed as a grade 1 medical device specially designed for young people aged seven to 16. The project will see […]
Royal Oldham Hospital goes live with digital images for biopsies
The roll-out of digital pathology in Greater Manchester has begun, with the Royal Oldham Hospital becoming the first to use digital images for biopsies, and further plans to see all seven laboratories in the region implement digital pathology by 2025. Allowing traditional glass slides to be scanned in order for […]
Panel discussion: new models of care and pathway transformation
For our latest HTN Now webinar on new models of care and pathway transformation, we were joined by a panel including James Driver, digital innovation manager at BOB ICB; Kalle Conneryd Lundgren, chief operating officer for Livi; and Lyndsey Reeves, UK operations director for Livi. The panel discussed some of […]
NHS Dumfries & Galloway CEO updates local citizens on cyber attack published data
NHS Dumfries & Galloway chief executive Julie White has shared an update with every citizen in Dumfries and Galloway on the cyber attack earlier this year, stating to residents to “assume that some data relating to you is likely to have been copied and published”. The letter adds that “the criminals […]
