The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed plans for NHSX and NHS Digital to be merged into NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I), as part of a wider shake up to reform digital transformation and workforce planning in the NHS. Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision […]
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National consultation launched to draft 111 referral standard
A national survey has opened to gather feedback to support the development of a new 111 referral standard. The draft standard is said to be based on a project from 2018 that focused on urgent care information flows, and aims to review and develop a new standard to include “new information from […]
Agenda released for HTN Now AI, Analytics and Data
Join HTN and colleagues on 30 November for the second in the HTN Now Focus series – five one-day online events to include: Supporting Digital Integrated Care Systems; AI, Analytics and Data; Electronic Patient Records; Digital Strategy, Transformation and Change; and Digital Mental Health. For the AI, Analytics and Data edition, we’ll explore an […]
Nervecentre shares presentation on cloud and EPR software as a service
Nervecentre, an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) software supplier to the NHS, recently shared a presentation on the topic of its ‘EPR as a service’, sharing how trusts can use the company’s fully-integrated platform as a cloud SaaS [software as a service] model. Delivering the live webcast was a panel comprised […]
Innovations in focus: all 35 winners of NHSX’s new Adoption Fund
HTN recently covered the announcement of NHSX’s new Adoption Fund winners. The 35 successful innovations, and the teams behind them, will each receive a share of the £6.5 million funding pot. Spread out across five areas – gastroenterology, musculoskeletal, perioperative, cardiology and cardiac surgery pathways, and digital inclusion – the […]
Wales awards £2 million tender for digital clinical assessments and interventions
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 […]
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. […]
