A new online service has been launched to support children and young people in Hull and North Lincolnshire. The tool is available for people aged between 11 and 25 to provide free, anonymous online counselling and emotional wellbeing service. Using Kooth, accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, people can receive […]
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Visionable appoints Rachel Dunscombe as its CTO
Specialist video collaboration provider, Visionable, has appointed Rachel Dunscombe as its chief technology officer. Rachel will lead Visionable’s strategy on the development of its unique video collaboration platform to meet the needs of integrated care systems. The company is one of very view video manufacturers, and has customers such as West […]
NHS Digital partners with email and data security supplier
NHS Digital has partnered with email and data security supplier Egress for NHSmail. Egress Protect will integrate into NHSmail to improve protection and security, following a recent successful pilot of the solution. Chris Parsons, NHSmail Programme Lead at NHS Digital said “NHSmail is already a safe, secure email system, used […]
HTN Webinar Learning Series: Healthcare Interoperability and Supporting Pathology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This week as part of the HTN COVID-19 Webinar Learning Series, we invite you to attend a session focusing on healthcare interoperability and how it’s supporting pathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new Health Tech Webinar Learning Series supports sharing information and learnings on the role of technology to support […]
Health Tech Heroes part two
Each week as part of our Health Tech Heroes series we recognise and say thank you to those in health tech making a real difference. Here in the second part in the series, we cover some of the amazing work this week where teams across the country have been working […]
NHS COVID-19 symptom checker launched to help build up additional data
An online symptom checker has been launched to help the NHS coordinate its response and build up additional data on the COVID-19 pandemic. NHS England, NHSX and NHS Digital collaborated to develop the Coronavirus Status Checker to ask people with potential symptoms to complete the online questionnaire. The short survey is […]
Interview Series: Alan Lowe, CEO of Visionable
In our latest interview we speak with Alan Lowe, CEO of Visionable, the specialist video collaboration provider. Could you tell me a bit about Visionable? I’m an NHS manager by background. I started my career in London, where I managed frontline services and worked in service improvement. I installed one […]
Microsoft Teams sees 44,885 NHS users per day
On 18th March NHSX, NHS Digital and Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams would be available for free for three months. The tool was rolled out to all NHSmail users on 20th March and between March 22–28 it was used to facilitate 973,072 private online chats, rising from 6,804 on March 22 to a […]
NWIS adds COVID-19 test results to Welsh Clinical Portal
The NHS Wales Informatics Services has announced COVID-19 test results have been added to its national clinical portal. The unit developed an electronic test requesting system for use in community test units across Wales and has now made this information available. Patients who test for COVID-19 will be added to […]
Hosted document sharing platform launched for free to support healthcare teams during COVID-19 pandemic
An independent document sharing platform has been launched by CCube Solutions to support providers and health professionals access information during the COVID-19 crisis. The company said it is providing a secure cloud-based platform that is accessible from any device and independently from an IT system to support healthcare professionals access […]
