The Digital Productivity programme from NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has shared its delivery plans going forward, along with the key areas of focus over the past year. Robot process automation (RPA) Overall, the programme aims to improve RPA capability across as many NHS services as possible by 2024. Present work […]
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Scotland Digital Healthcare publishes 2023 delivery plan
Digital Health and Care Scotland has published a national delivery plan for the year ahead, describing how digital activities are to support health and care services. The plan follows the publication of its strategy ‘Care in the Digital Age’ (October 2021), which focused on the “widespread use of digital solutions” […]
MedTech funding programme paused for new entrants
NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative has confirmed that no new technologies will join its MedTech funding mandate for 2023/24. The programme launched in 2021 to accelerate the uptake of selected innovative medical devices, diagnostics and digital products, and support the adoption of these technologies. To date the programme has supported 11 […]
Clinical artificial intelligence fellowship opens for applications
Health Education England and the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare have opened applications to the Fellowships in Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme. The programme aims to support medical and dental trainees to develop their expertise in clinical AI in an integrated pathway alongside their specialty training. It hopes to support […]
Northamptonshire ICS shares update on Elective Care Collaborative
Northamptonshire ICS has shared an update on their work to develop the Integrated Care Northamptonshire Elective Care Collaborative, bringing together the organisations involved in planning care with the aim of improving health outcomes through working together in a patient-centred approach. This will be achieved through transforming service delivery to focus on […]
Black Country Pathology Services adopts ‘big bang’ laboratory information system deployment
Black Country Pathology Services has taken a ‘big bang‘ approach to upgrade the laboratory information system and order communications and results reporting at its Dudley Lab. The service has built a pathology hub in Wolverhampton and developed four essential services laboratories at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS […]
NHSE Chief Commercial Officer “collaboration with suppliers is critical to delivering more value”
Jacqui Rock, Chief Commercial Officer for NHS England, has published a blog on how collaboration with suppliers is “critical to delivering more value and efficiencies for taxpayers”. Highlighting that the NHS procures over £30 billion of goods and services each year from over 80,000 suppliers, she adds that she has […]
AI deployment engine goes open source
The Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare, a programme led by King’s College London and Guy’s and Thomas’ NHS FT, has made the code for its AI Deployment Engine (AIDE) available through open source on GitHub. Formed in 2019, The AI Centre works alongside 10 NHS trusts, four universities, industry partners including Siemens Healthineers, NVIDIA, IBM, GSK, […]
NHS AI Lab calls for artificial intelligence proof of concept projects
A specialist artificial intelligence team, part of the NHS Transformation Directorate, has opened a call for applications to join a proof of concept programme. The NHS AI Lab Skunkworks team are seeking to develop a new round of projects where artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be applied to solve problems in […]
Study shares outcomes of digital therapeutic for treating panic disorder and PTSD
A study has been published in Frontiers entitled ‘Real-world outcomes of an innovative digital therapeutic for treatment of panic disorder and PTSD: A 1,500 patient effectiveness study’. Authors Robert N. Cuyler, Rahul Katdare, Simon Thomas and Michael J. Telch noted that prior clinical trials have shown “consistent clinical benefit” in […]
