The North East Ambulance Service alongside the Integrated Stroke Delivery Network in the region are expanding their telemedicine project, where ambulance clinicians video call the stroke units directly. The organisations have been working together to improve emergency stroke care by implementing audio visual calls from the ambulance. The technology in place will allow […]
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Wales to evaluate AI pain management tech
A funding programme in Wales is to support a pilot phase and evaluation of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered pain assessment tool. Life Sciences Hub Wales, with the Gwent Regional Partnership Board via its Technology Enabled Care Programme, will be providing funding for 12 months to pilot the PainChek tool in care environments […]
NHS England seeks early adopters to trial heart failure @home approach
NHS England is looking to trial an innovative approach to managing heart failure at home using remote monitoring and self-management tools. Intended to support virtual ward programmes currently in place or to provide an opportunity for teams to embrace elements of the @home approach, NHS England is seeking early adopter […]
Automation Cafe: challenges with robotic process automation
Darren Atkins, Chief Technology Officer for Intelligent Automation at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, has set up a series of live interactive sessions for all professionals working in automation, called the ‘Automation Cafe Live!’ The sessions have been set up in his own time, Darren said, “so that people […]
NHSE opens procurement for delivery partner to support frontline digitisation programme
NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has opened a procurement process to partner with a delivery supplier to support its Frontline Digitisation programme. The programme aims to provide national support for locally led digital transformation, with the aim of this procurement to find a delivery partner for the provision of advice, support, expertise […]
PRSB publishes information sharing standards to support diabetes management
The Professionals Record Standards Body (PRSB) has released new information sharing standards to support diabetes management. The development of the standards comes in response to “information about a person’s diabetes… not all being digitally shared between the different professionals involved in their care,” PRSB states. The body also notes “inconsistency in […]
Wireless trials from NHS Digital open for applications
NHS Digital is exploring how wireless technologies can support the delivery of improved health and care through a series of trials. The Wireless Centre of Excellence allows NHS organisations to apply for funding for innovative wireless technology to support them in making connectivity improvements in health and care settings. Organisations […]
Industry view: how can the NHS retain and attract IT staff?
Amy Freeman, Director of Digital and Digital Transformation at University Hospitals of North Midlands, took to Twitter over the weekend with a question that sparked an interesting discussion: “If the NHS can’t compete with private sector salaries, and private sector is matching pensions and annual leave, how do we keep […]
140,000 people join cancer screening trial through NHS DigiTrials service
Over 140,000 people have signed up to take part in a trial of a blood test said to detect more than 50 types of cancer. NHS and healthcare company GRAIL developed the NHS-Galleri test. It is being run by The Cancer Research UK and King’s College London Cancer Prevention Trials […]
£25million digital social care fund for ICSs
The Digitising Social Care programme, a unit within the NHS Transformation Directorate, is making £25 million available to Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in 2022/23 to support adult social care in digitising. The investment forms part of the Plan for Digital Health and Care and funding announced in June to support digital […]
