University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has released its new ‘Outpatient Transformation Strategy’ for 2021-26. Covering the next five years, the document’s title is one of its goals – ‘a hospital without walls’ – with a focus on an ‘integrated future for outpatients’ that has tech and digital […]
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UK Gov releases guidance on making digital services in an emergency
The UK Government has published new guidance on making digital services in an emergency. Martin Jordan, Head of Service Design at the UK Cabinet Office, shared news of the release on Twitter, explaining that the document reflected the “collective learnings of digital service teams from the past 18 months” and […]
ORCHA and ICS partnership to give entire South West region access to a digital health library
ORCHA – the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps – has formed a new partnership with seven Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in the South West of the UK, to provide the region’s population with access to digital health libraries. Having previously created an app library for Our […]
NHSX announces funding for 14 projects
NHSX has announced the winners of one of its funding programmes, The Digital Health Partnership Award, naming 14 projects to receive between £100,000 – £500,000. The funding scheme has been created to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies that support patients with long-term conditions, and focuses on scaling digital […]
SilverCloud publishes new whitepaper on the role of digital mental health in reshaping service delivery
Digital mental health provider, SilverCloud, has released a new whitepaper about the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of mental health services. Entitled, ‘Digital Mental Health in the Wake of a Global Pandemic: Reshaping Service Delivery’, the paper also takes a closer look at how increasing demand for mental health support has […]
Report: A challenge on two fronts – safeguarding mental health in a post-COVID landscape
Feature by Orlando Agrippa, CEO & Founder of RwHealth – A Healthcare & Life Sciences Company To download the Mental Health Sector Report 2021, please click here The technology landscape mirrors the world’s struggle to regain its equilibrium post-COVID. New apps and telehealth solutions pop up in our feeds each week, […]
News in brief: Hertfordshire selects Civica, The Christie’s new data platform, Derby and Burton’s closed loop medication supply
September has flown past in a flash, as the team at HTN hosted the latest edition of HTN Now. If you missed our four days’ worth of live events, you can already catch up on some of the videos and session reviews through the website. If the webcast you were […]
Chelsea and Westminster announces new health and tech partnerships and marks two years of innovation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its CW Innovation programme have formed two new partnerships with the companies Gilead Sciences and C-Score. The news comes as the trust and its charity, CW+, recently celebrated the two-year anniversary of the Innovation programme, which has overseen a host of developments […]
Digital Clinical Safety Strategy published by NHSX
NHSX has released a new Digital Clinical Safety Strategy. A joint work from all of NHSX, NHS Digital, and NHS England and NHS Improvement, the document is related to the new NHS Patient Safety Strategy, which was also published recently. As well as sharing the strategy itself and its aims, […]
News in brief: Dorset Care Record RPA, South Tees Hospitals, patient document software tender, mental health app launched
Welcome to our latest news in brief! During a busy week where the HTN team is live for HTN Now, there’s still lots happening elsewhere in the world of health tech. In this edition, we share a project using digital workers to perform manual tasks, a new mental health app […]
