A new framework agreement that enables health and social care providers to access cutting-edge technology to support direct patient care has been launched by NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS). The Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) framework is one of the first of its kind for the public sector and […]
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Surgeon carries out first operations using new “intuitive” surgical robot
Mr Sri Kadirkamanathan, consultant upper GI surgeon at Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, has carried out his first operations using the new “intuitive” surgical robot, the da Vinci Xi. The patients were two women in their 20s who suffer from gastroparesis. This condition led to them being unable to […]
Funding announced to drive interoperability between NHS and social care
NHS Digital has announced £1.4m funding for local authorities and their NHS partners to digitise patient discharge from hospital into local authority social care, to help reduce delayed discharges. Applications are now open for local authorities to integrate their systems with at least one of their NHS partners, to create […]
Chris Parsons, Valuing Care, asks why isn’t more effort being made to control increasing continuing healthcare (CHC) costs?
The National Audit office study into Continuing Health Care in 2017 illustrates some startling figures on the growing cost of CHC to the NHS. There has been a 16% increase in spending from 2013-14 to 2015-16 and this is due to continue rising. The £3.6bn pa spend in 2016-17 is […]
Medtech Accelerator awards £500k to ground-breaking medical technology projects
Medtech Accelerator, a joint venture with innovation hub Health Enterprise East (HEE), has unveiled its latest round of successfully funded projects, with financial awards totalling nearly half a million pounds. Awards of between £80,000 and £125,000 each were given to four separate medical technology innovations. Launched at the end of […]
Kingsley Manning appointed to the Silverlink Software board
Silverlink Software Ltd has announced the appointment of Kingsley Manning to the company’s board as a non-executive director. Kingsley has worked with and for the NHS and the wider healthcare industry for more than 30 years. He has been particularly involved in the digital agenda, having been Chair of NHS Digital, Executive […]
RYSE announces partnership with DigitalHealth.London to invest in early stage digital health businesses
RYSE has partnered with DigitalHealth.London in a new venture which could pave the way for public-private collaborations in health and care. RYSE through its Early Stage Opportunity Fund, supported by DigitalHealth.London, seeks to support a number of promising early stage digital health businesses within the NHS or other healthcare delivery […]
HTN Newsletter
We have had a great month where we announced the winners of our HTN Awards 2017 and have more recently launched our Elevator Pitch, find out more here. Here we bring you some of the news we covered over the past 4 weeks: 11 innovations join NHS Innovation Accelerator First NHS […]
Applications now open for NHS Digital Academy
Applications have opened for NHS digital leaders of the future to train at the NHS Digital Academy. The Academy, delivered by a partnership of Imperial College, Harvard Medical School and The University of Edinburgh, under the guidance of Chief Executive Rachel Dunscombe, Director of Digital for Salford Royal NHS Foundation […]
Berkshire East CCG Federation latest to offer digital support for diabetes
Changing Health, the service transforming digital education and support for people with Type 2 diabetes, is now available for almost a quarter of a million people with diabetes to rapidly improve their health outcomes. A new partnership between Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Changing Health means the service is […]
