NHSX has published new reviews into digital skills and technology within the adult social care sector. The reports, which were conducted by Ipsos MORI, the Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University, and Skills for Care, were released last week, alongside the Department of Health and Social Care’s […]
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£700 million funding announced to support NHS this winter
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £700 million in new funding, including £250 million for new technology, £330 million for upgrading facilities, and £120 million for any supporting revenue costs. The funding is planned to be used across 187 hospitals, and 785 schemes, outlined below. Some of […]
£150m for digital as part of social care plan
The UK Government has released a new white paper on social care, which sets out plans for the next ten years, including new investment of £150 million for digital. The document – ‘People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform’ – sets out aims and goals, as well […]
Agenda released for HTN Now Electronic Patient Records
The HTN Now Focus online event series continues, with the next edition specifically on electronic patient records, set to take place 9 December 2021. Join HTN and colleagues for the third edition in the HTN Now Focus series, where we explore the electronic patient record (EPR) programme at Newcastle Hospitals […]
Northamptonshire HCP’s population health learning programme goes live
Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership (HCP) has gone live with its own population health learning programme. One of five systemwide Action Learning Sets (ALS) began this week, bringing leaders and colleagues from across the local Integrated Care System together, along with analytics and finance experts, and Primary Care Network (PCN) teams. […]
New NHS Race & Health Observatory strategy considers technologies and inequalities
The NHS Race & Health Observatory, an independent body which works to identify and tackle ethnic inequalities in health and care, has released a new strategy for the next three years, covering 2021 – 2024. Titled ‘Driving Race Equity in Health and Care’, the document covers a number of areas and […]
Edinburgh study published on ‘surgery selfies’ and infection identification
A study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, which has been published in npj Digital Medicine, has found that ‘surgery selfies’ – smartphone pictures taken of post-surgical wounds by patients, which are then assessed by clinicians – ‘can help with the early identification of infections’. Experts say that, in […]
News in brief: innovations to tackle patient backlog and cancer care, first clinical use of accessible incubator
The snow is falling at HTN HQ, which means it’s a good excuse to wrap up warm, grab a cuppa, stay indoors, and read all about the latest health tech news in our round-up. Last week, the headlines were all about the plans to merge NHS Digital and NHSX into […]
Free digital tool released to help GPs calculate practice carbon footprints
A new free digital tool has been launched to help GPs calculate the carbon footprints and environmental impact of their primary care practices. An online tool, the GP Carbon Calculator, is now available for all UK general practitioners to use and is intended to support practices to reduce their emissions, […]
Industry View: health tech experts react to NHSX/D merger with NHS England
News of plans for NHS Digital and NHSX to merge into NHS England and NHS Improvement, bringing all of the National Healthcare System’s tech, digital and data expertise together under ‘one roof’, has dominated the headlines this week. As well as covering the latest developments, following the release of the […]
