The UK-Canada AgeTech Innovation Exchange programme is to launch an open competition for companies from the UK and Canada to work together with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of elderly people through innovation. Applicants should be developing innovative solutions which are at an appropriate stage of development, with a […]
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UK Research and Innovation pre-announce funding opportunity to accelerate health research
A funding opportunity has been pre-announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to develop innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies which can be applied to health challenges. It aims to bring researchers together across contrasting sectors and disciplines in order to change how health research is conducted. Projects are expected to […]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and CW+ launch updated hand therapy app
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (CWH) NHS Foundation Trust and their official charity CW+ have launched a new version of their app Hand Therapy: The Exercise Prescription App. It forms part of the CW Innovation programme which is being led by the trust and CW+ with the aim of identifying and […]
New eye-care electronic referral system to launch across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System is to launch a new electronic eye-care referral system between optometrists and ophthalmology service providers. The system has been procured by NHS England and is set to be launched across the integrated care system early next year. It will replace “a range of […]
Electronic medical record system in place across Bermuda Hospitals
Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has gone live with a new electronic medical record system called PEARL (Patient Electronic and Administrative Records Log), using Cerner’s Millennium product. The system is being introduced to “replace a number of other systems” and to “support integration,” BHB said. The implementation of PEARL is “a significant […]
£13.5 million investment into sub-national secure data environment
£13.5 million has been announced in funding for the development of an interoperable network of NHS-owned sub-national secure data environments (SDEs) in a blog by Dr Claire Bloomfield, Deputy Director of Data for Research and Development at NHS Transformation Directorate’s Centre for Improving Data Collaboration. The funding will help support a […]
NHS England publishes waitlist validation guidance and targets
NHS England has published guidance to support healthcare systems with waitlist validation and to highlight a series of targets to May 2023. In a letter from Paul Doyle, national programme director for elective recovery at NHS England, to NHS trusts and system leaders, he notes that “validation is well established […]
HEE report highlights role of digital technologies in supporting health and care workforce
A new report published by Health Education England (HEE) entitled ‘Harnessing digital technologies for workforce development, education and training: an overview’ has revealed that digital technologies are to play a key role in supporting the NHS workforce deal with upcoming demands. To meet demand, the report highlights that policy makers […]
Whittington Health and North Middlesex University Hospital to pilot remote monitoring tech
Whittington Health NHS Trust and North Middlesex University Hospital are to pilot remote monitoring technology from Spirit Health to support people living with heart failure and frailty. In a three-month pilot, supported by North Central London Integrated Care System, patients will be discharged and monitored at home by specialist clinical teams. […]
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS launches winter control room
NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System has this month launched a winter control room to manage demand and capacity across the county. The control room is said to use multi-agency data to support the region’s response to pressures across the system, where it can match staff with demand to […]
