NHS England chief Simon Stevens and Ian Dalton, head of NHS Improvement, have called on the NHS to ‘supercharge’ integration as Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, Suffolk and North East Essex and North Cumbria will join the ten areas already part of the integrated care development programme. The announcement said […]
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ReStart launches Viper360® Presentation Layer
NHS integration experts, ReStart Consulting Ltd, has launched the Viper360 Presentation Layer to allow more clinicians, carers and patients to interact with shared care records in real-time, faster than ever before. The solution will support Sustainability Transformation Partnerships (STPs) working towards joined up health and care by overcoming the significant barriers […]
UCLPartners launch pilot of staff engagement and quality improvement platform
UCLPartners has announced four organisations from the region will be piloting ImproveWell, a digital platform for staff engagement and quality improvement. Three hospital trusts and a clinical commissioning group – Barts Health NHS Trust; Castle Point and Rochford and Southend CCGs; North East London NHS Foundation Trust; and Royal Free […]
Berkshire CCG wins international award for Population Profiling
A Clinical Commissioning Group in Berkshire has won an international award for helping to identify people who are risk of hospital admission and providing them with a care and support plan. Slough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), now formally merged with Bracknell and Ascot, Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead CCGs to form one single CCG […]
NEL CSU announces partnership to improve population health
NEL CSU has announced a new partnership with Cerner, OptiMedis-COBIC UK and Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP), to provide a new performance and population health management dashboard for NHS England and Integrated Care Systems (ICS) across the country. Integrated Care Systems merge treatment (traditionally the domain of the NHS) with […]
Great North Care Record accessed 25,000 times a month
The Great North Care Record, a collaboration between the £20m government funded Connected Health Cities programme and local NHS providers, is a new, more efficient way of sharing care information electronically across the region between authorised healthcare practitioners with the patient’s permission. The Record is accessed around 25,000 times every […]
NHS Informatics Merseyside enables digital innovation with Sunrise Software
Sunrise Software, a leading supplier of IT service management software has announced that NHS Informatics Merseyside is using Sunrise ITSM as a platform for automation, innovation and greater efficiency, helping its 18,000 users to focus on patient care. With one of the largest IT service desks in the NHS, Informatics Merseyside handles […]
Berkshire goes live with record sharing project
Health and social care providers across Berkshire are sharing health and care information electronically on up to 850,000 residents in one of the country’s largest shared care record projects. The first major phase of Berkshire’s shared care record initiative has gone live. Known as Connected Care, the new clinical system […]
NHS Liverpool CCG appoints Docobo
NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group has awarded a contract to Docobo to support the delivery of telehealth at scale. The service uses a combination of education, remote monitoring, automated alerting rules, plus access to experienced nurses to support people living with lung conditions, heart failure or diabetes. With the new Docobo platform, […]
NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands CSU secures £14m contract
NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands (GEM) Commissioning Support Unit has been appointed to provide both corporate and GP IT services on behalf of seven Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Essex. The service will fall into two areas: corporate IT support including strategic planning and operational delivery; and GP IT […]
