The Transformation Directorate at NHS England has published “Guidance for designing, delivering and sustaining Robotic Process Automation (RPA) within the NHS”, calling it a “national ‘how to guide’ to support effective and safe adoption of RPA [which] will present good practice on planning, delivering and sustaining RPA solutions and will […]
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Industry View: healthcare experts react to the new draft Standards and Interoperability Strategy
For the latest edition of our industry view series, we sent out a call for comment to hear the views of industry leaders on the new draft Standards and Interoperability Strategy released by the Transformation Directorate at NHS England and NHS Improvement. We received a wide range of replies, here’s […]
NHS Transformation Directorate opens Digital Innovation Partnership funding round three
The NHS Transformation Directorate has opened round three of its Digital Innovation Partnership Awards, a scheme created to help NHS organisations in England bid for funding to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies. The programme focuses on technologies that support people at home, including tools to support self-management of long-term […]
Researchers examine implementing and creating sustainable digital health solutions
A paper published in Frontiers in Digital Health by authors Matthew Cripps and Harry Scarbrough examines the challenges of effectively implementing and creating sustainable digital health solutions. The paper, “Making Digital Health ‘Solutions’ Sustainable in Healthcare Systems: A Practitioner Perspective” advocates for change to the way that digital transformation is […]
£12 million allocated as part of Digital Productivity Fund
The NHS Transformation Directorate’s Digital Productivity Programme has allocated £12 million in funding, with a focus on automation, real time location systems, and extended reality. The programme is also supporting ‘other productivity-improving technologies’, including surgery pods, no-code development tools, e-rostering, scheduling and care planning tools, remote monitoring, digital dictation, digital […]
Health Tech Trends 2022: what can we learn about digital transformation from the past year?
Rounding off our latest Health Tech Trends series, through which we explore the opinions of health and care leaders on a variety of topics, we asked our respondents for their thoughts on learnings from the past year. What is the lesson on digital transformation that stands out from the past […]
Nuffield Trust publishes lessons learned to support patient engagement with digital innovations
The Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, has published a new report following an evaluation to explore the factors that support patient and staff engagement in the use of digital healthcare innovations. The paper, ‘Supporting patient engagement with digital health care innovations: Lessons from the Care City test bed’, produced […]
Solent NHS Trust supports maternal mental health through online portal
Solent NHS Trust is raising awareness of its new online portal, Family Assist Solent, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. The portal provides information for expectant and new mothers, parents and families during pregnancy, birth and beyond, including mental health guidance and support. Since Family Assist was launched in […]
NHSE publishes guidance for ICSs to introduce virtual ward model
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance to support all Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) with virtual ward programmes. The guidance, entitled “supporting information for ICS leads: enablers for success: virtual wards including hospital at home” comes in support of NHSEI asking all ICSs to extend or introduce the virtual […]
