Keir Starmer has today confirmed plans to abolish NHS England, in a move he states will bring the management of the NHS “back into democratic control” and support the government’s objective of “reshaping the state”. In his speech in Hull this morning, the prime minister said: “I don’t see why […]
Author: Jennifer Turton
Sussex Community procures £275,000 exercise prescription software service
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract worth £275,000 to London-based Physitrack PLC for the provision of an exercise prescription software service. The platform is said to enable physiotherapists to create “customised home exercise programs” with “easy-to-follow” videos to promote adherence, pain tracking, and progress monitoring features. According […]
Sussex Partnership organisational strategy highlights data, innovation, and digital technologies
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust shared its organisational strategy for 2025 – 2030 last week, setting out its vision, objectives and measures, as well noting the opportunities to utilise data, innovation and a digital-first approach. The trust opens with its vision to state “delivering the strategy will take time and […]
Government accepts 15 recommendations on the regulation of AI as a medical device
The UK government has published a response to a report from the Regulatory Horizons Council (RHC) about the regulation of AI as a medical device (AIaMD), accepting all 15 of its recommendations, and offering insight into current work and next steps in this space. Highlighting that AIaMD has “advanced significantly […]
Liverpool Combined Authority commits funding to children’s healthcare innovation
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has confirmed £4.16 million in innovation zone funding for children’s healthcare innovation at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The funding is supporting the development of a Paediatric Open Innovation Zone designed to develop, test and deploy technologies to tackle “some of the biggest […]
SBRI Healthcare and NIHR i4i launch readiness programme for women-led health innovations
SBRI Healthcare and NIHR i4i have launched a venture capital readiness programme, to support female founders to scale their innovations across health and social care. Offering a six-month programme designed for female founders to access the tools, networks, and knowledge required, the programme aims to support those tackling healthcare challenges with […]
Panel discusses cyber security best practices, assessing maturity, good practice…
We were joined for a recent HTN Now webinar focusing on sharing best practices around cyber security, by an expert panel including Neill Crump, digital strategy director at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust; Nasser Arif, cyber security manager at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) and Hillingdon Hospitals […]
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital deploys Nervecentre EPR
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts have introduced Nervecentre’s cloud–native EPR platform. Launched across six hospitals in February, as part of a phased roll-out, this phase focused on deploying mobile capabilities to the hospitals’ emergency departments and inpatient wards. The trusts report that […]
British Heart Foundation Innovation Fund opens for funding of up to £350k
Applications have opened for the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Healthcare Innovation Fund, looking to develop ways to transform the delivery of services for people with cardiovascular disease. The fund is looking for ideas that identify unmet needs that require “further scoping and consensus building” around potential solutions, that have been […]
Microsoft launches AI assistant for clinical workflow
Microsoft has launched Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant for clinical workflow, bringing together natural language voice dictation and ambient listening capabilities “with fine-tuned generative AI and healthcare-adapted safeguards”, said to support documentation, surfacing important information, and task automation. Examples of functionality available to clinicians include the ability to create […]
