NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has announced the intention to award a £2 million contract to Healois, an online provider of specialist child and young person’s mental health services. The body is to award the contract for CAMHS clinical assessments and interventions via the company’s digital platform, to help increase capacity […]
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Remote monitoring pilots launched in North East Lincolnshire care homes
North East Lincolnshire will benefit from remote monitoring pilot programmes in its care homes, with Docobo technology set to be trialled across a number of sites. Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (YHAHSN) has been working, on behalf of NHSX, with the Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care […]
News in brief: ‘DadPad’ app available, RCN’s online diabetes resource, new platform for Nottingham
There’s been plenty of health tech news to share across the last seven days, including updates in the world of data and numerous industry developments. Highlights include the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust selecting the Agilisys platform to develop its analytics capabilities, while Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has signed up […]
First guidance issued for supporting patients with DIY artificial pancreas technology
A team of around 40 healthcare professionals and legal experts have issued guidance for type 1 diabetes patients using ‘Do-It-Yourself’ artificial pancreas technology to manage their condition. According to King’s College London, whose academics co-led with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT on the recent paper published in The Lancet Diabetes […]
46 suppliers selected for £5bn NHS digital documents framework
Suppliers have been named as part of a £5 billion framework, which is led by NHS London Procurement Partnership and focuses on digital document solutions and storage. The four-year Digital Documents Solutions framework includes a range of suppliers to cover the scope of digital solutions, and associated hardware or software. […]
HTN Now: National and local approaches to transforming care services
Our 2021 online event series is almost coming to a close, but there are still three days of sessions remaining, as part of our HTN Now Focus series – and we would love for you to join us. For the next event in the series we take a closer look […]
News in Brief: NHSX backs digital back pain pathway, home test for breast cancer patients, mental health videos
This week we’ve covered a range of health tech news, including nine projects being announced to support analytics research into COVID-19, a new tender put out for work on Equality Impact Assessments in innovation, and the publication of the first research paper to use data from the Greater Manchester Care […]
Invitation to tender for new research project into Equality Impact Assessments
The NHS Race and Health Observatory (RHO), an independent organisation which works to identify, explore and tackle ethnic inequalities in healthcare, has put out an invitation to tender for research into how tech, treatments and innovations are impacted by Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs). The Observatory, which is supported by NHS […]
Nine projects announced to support analytics research into COVID-19
Health Data Research UK and The Alan Turing Institute have announced nine new data projects, as part of a £2 million funding programme. The programmes will use large-scale linked data to address priority research questions, hoped to help improve understanding of the pandemic and inform the continued policy response. The researchers […]
Case Study: How a SilverCloud project saved Greater Manchester HSCP 29,070 hours of staff time
As part of our latest case study feature, the digital mental health provider SilverCloud has shared the outcomes of its work with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP), which revolved around bridging the silos in mental health resource to meet increasing demand. Comprised of 10 CCGs, NHS trusts, […]
