Dr Elizabeth Murphy (senior research clinical psychologist) and Kate Kelly (gameChange peer support worker) at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust discuss the role of virtual reality in treating mental health. The use of virtual reality (VR) technology in psychological therapy is not new – it has been used […]
Blogs
Feature: Creating the digital health workforce of the future
Feature by Highland Marketing How are trusts and health tech suppliers going to find the people they need to develop, deploy and optimise critical clinical information systems in the future? Highland Marketing’s advisory board invited Paul Rice from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to outline how he has been […]
Blog: the mini budget
By Lyn Whitfield, Highland Marketing’s strategy and content director Amid the Brexit turmoil, chancellor Sajid Javid delivered a mini budget with a headline £6.2 billion for the NHS. However, as this analysis from Highland Marketing explains, most of this money had been announced before, it only covers one year, and […]
Blog: Hancock, redux
The health and social care secretary was widely expected to leave for a new job in Boris Johnson’s first cabinet reshuffle. But he’s back. Highland Marketing considers his first year in office, his possible new priorities, and where the latest round of politics leaves NHSX and the health tech agenda. […]
The NHSX unit, what do we know and what does it mean?
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock is setting up an NHSX unit. It’s hardly the first attempt to set up a central body to sort out IT policy and approach. So will it fly, or founder on the launch pad? Lyn Whitfield, Highland Marketing’s strategy and content director, considers […]
Opinion: The NHS must become a flexible employer if it wants to retain its workforce
By Dr Anas Nader, NHS doctor and former Darzi fellow. We are seeing UK start-ups make huge strides when it comes to how patients are able to see their doctors. Technology-led solutions are increasing in popularity – from video-based consultations to remote tracking of conditions. But whilst the hype is currently […]
Highland Marketing advisory board responds to the NHS Long Term Plan
The first meeting of Highland Marketing’s newly expanded advisory board discussed the NHS Long Term Plan and what will be needed to make it a success. Structural change, leadership, investment, spending on the right systems at the right level, and empowerment emerged as key themes. The NHS Long Term Plan […]
Highland Marketing tech and security predictions, 2019
What will be the key health tech and security trends affecting the NHS in the coming year and beyond? Highland Marketing asked members of its advisory group for their predictions. James Norman, healthcare CIO – EMEA at DellEMC I think there are going to be a few key initiatives that […]
Highland Marketing looks ahead to 2019
The turmoil in UK politics makes it hard to look too far ahead, but it is long-term trends that will shape the NHS and health tech through 2019, and well thought communications that will ensure success for vendors, say Lyn Whitfield and Mark Venables. Lyn Whitfield, director of content strategy, […]
Opinion: Barney Gilbert, CEO of Forward App on the NHS banning fax machines
Medical histories spewing quietly unnoticed onto a desk in a busy ward, urgent information being sent to places that doctors can’t access, junior doctors leaving a patient’s bedside to pick up a piece of paper that has just been delivered then running back with essential information quite literally in hand. Welcome […]
