North West London Integrated Care System (ICS) has signed a deal with InterSystems for its cloud-based interoperability service. Through a five-year partnership, the ICS will introduce InterSystems Health Connect Cloud, with an aim to facilitate electronic data flows between care settings and promote digital transformation across the region. The technology will be made […]
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SBRI Healthcare funding opens for net zero clinical innovations
SBRI Healthcare, the NHS England funded initiative championed by the AHSN Network, has opened a new funding competition ‘Delivering a Net Zero NHS Clinical Innovation’. The funding competition is open for innovations that can help transform carbon intensive areas of clinical care and complex care pathways. There are four specific challenge […]
Sussex ICS awards pilot extension for community diagnostic pathway tech
Feedback, a provider of digital infrastructure to facilitate patient specific pathways between primary and secondary care, has been awarded a 12 month extension of an initial pilot with Sussex Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System. The pilot aimed to support community diagnostic centres establish “symptom-based pathway models” using Feedback’s digital infrastructure […]
Coventry and Warwickshire tackle waiting lists with text message initiative
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has launched a new initiative with an aim to reduce waiting times for elective care. The trust is sending patients on its waiting list at University Hospital, Coventry or the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby a short survey by text message or postal […]
Humber and North Yorkshire ICS launches accessing appointments communication campaign
Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has launched a communication campaign to support patients with accessing new appointment methods and to understand the digital options. The integrated care system outpatient transformation programme has produced two animations to help explain what patient initiated follow ups are and to describe how […]
Drones to deliver medical samples across Morecambe Bay through Future Flight Challenge funding
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are set to pioneer the use of drone technology to deliver medical samples between hospital sites. The project has come about due to approximately £1.4 million in funding from UK Research and Innovation. It […]
£1.7 bn tender opened for future NHS workforce tech
NHS Business Services Authority has opened a tender worth up to £1.7 billion to procure a ‘Future NHS Workforce Solution’. NHS BSA is calling for “a new transformed integrated workforce management solution for the NHS in England and Wales” to fulfil the ambition of “providing the NHS with a user-centred […]
Framework agreement published between the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS Digital
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a document entitled ‘Framework agreement between the Department of Health and Social Care and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (known as NHS Digital)’. The document sets out NHS Digital’s core responsibilities and how the relationship with DHSC works in […]
Digital kiosks launched at Lincolnshire community hubs to support wellbeing
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) has launched eight digital kiosks in various community venues across the county, support by national funding. Through the kiosks and tablets, residents can access what is known as the ‘Lincolnshire Atrium’ – a resource helping individuals manage their health and wellbeing, and support mental health transformation […]
NHS England funding supports 17 projects across ambulance and community health
17 projects have been supported over the past year through a funding programme, known as Digital PODAC, within the ambulance and community health service sectors. NHS England provided funding of £6 million (£5m capital and £1m revenue) in 2021 to 2022 to support the projects. The programme had an aim to […]
