Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) has selected the innovations and companies it will support for its inaugural green accelerator programme, intended to help tackle the NHS’s carbon footprint. A sustainable 3D printer, a digital personal health record and an integrated care platform connecting patients and healthcare professionals […]
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Patient Experience Library: the team behind the new hospital waiting time tool
HTN got in touch with the Patient Experience Library team and its directors, Anthony McQuillan and Miles Sibley, to find out more about their new waiting list tool, how the data is sourced and updated, and the benefits it can provide. The launch of the online database, which allows users […]
Inhealthcare completes integration with NHS login and MESH
Inhealthcare, a digital health and remote patient monitoring company, has completed the integration of its technology platform with NHS login, making it easier for patients to use its digital health services. The company has also completed integration with the Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH), a secure large […]
Chelsea and Westminster joins NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been selected to join the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. Led by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), an official partner of NHS England and NHS Improvement, the programme allows healthcare innovators to gain and hone commercial skills, knowledge and experience. Chelsea and Westminster will […]
Draft data strategy policy paper published
The Department of Health and Social Care and NHSX have published a draft policy document, data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data, aiming to set out priorities and commitments on how data is used and shared, and the underlying standards and infrastructure. The strategy highlights ‘bold commitments’ […]
College of Paramedics rolls out wellbeing platform for members’ mental fitness
The College of Paramedics has launched a wellbeing platform for its members, with a dedicated app rolled-out to provide the workforce with personalised access to tools that promote mental fitness. The College, which is the professional body for paramedics in the UK, recognised the need for the platform in response […]
News in brief: Moorfields appoints new CCIO, NHS innovation workshop, EU Horizon funding
So far this week, we’ve heard that the Department of Health and Social Care is set to publish a new data strategy, while a host of charities are collaborating to provide ‘information prescriptions’ to patients, and a CCG is aiming to improve digital primary care accessibility in its county. But […]
Digital health library to be launched in Dubai through ORCHA partnership
A new digital healthy library will be launched in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), through a collaboration between the Osteopathic Health Centre and ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps). The one-year contract has an option to renew for a further two years and is expected […]
Surgeons from Moorfields and Guy’s perform robotic eye cancer operation
Surgeons at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust have used a robot to help perform a “delicate procedure” to remove a cancerous tumour from next to a patient’s eye. According to Moorfields, it’s believed the surgery is a “world-first” of its kind, and the operation […]
New data strategy to be published
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced that a new data strategy is to be published. In an announcement made this week, the proposed strategy will be released ahead of public and stakeholder consultations. It’s said to propose how patients will view their digital medical records and ensure […]
