NHS Digital has signed a contract to deliver a new software solution for the de-identification of patient information, which will help to improve the way that data is used across the NHS and social care. De-identification is the process used to prevent a person’s identity from being connected with their information. […]
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Digital Care Home prevents emergency hospital admissions
Care home workers are playing a vital role in an exciting new partnership between care homes and the NHS aiming to improve the quality of life of residents and reduce emergency hospital admissions in Sheffield. The Digital Care Home is piloting a new model of collaborative working between health and […]
Thames Valley and Yorkshire and Humber join Local Health and Care Record Exemplars
Last month NHS England announced three areas, covering 14 million people, had been chosen to become ‘Local Health and Care Record Exemplars’ (LHCRE). New partnerships that will each receive up to £7.5 million over two years to put in place an electronic shared local health and care record that makes […]
UK Space Agency launches multi-million pound drive to improve patient care with NHS England
A search for hi-tech solutions to the major health and care challenges facing the NHS in its 70th anniversary year is underway with up to £4 million from the UK Space Agency. In the joint initiative with NHS England, Innovators will bid for money to turn technology originally designed for […]
Nightingale Health and UK Biobank announce major initiative
Nightingale Health the blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyse the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. Nightingale’s biomarker profiling technology will be used to analyse UK Biobank blood samples by measuring metabolic biomarkers that recent studies have found are predictive of future risk for heart […]
Increasing capacity for genomic analysis: apply for funding
Innovate UK has up to £5 million to support capital investment in equipment that increases the UK’s capacity to produce and commercialise genomic analysis technologies. Genomic analysis can help in the understanding and treatment of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. The funding is part of government’s £210 million […]
Twelve councils to share funding to explore social care digital innovation ideas
Twelve councils have been chosen by NHS Digital and the Local Government Association to explore how technology could help shape the future of social care. Scoping proposals range from how biometric technology might be used to assist people with learning disabilities and autism in the Wirral to how skills passports […]
North East leads the way in digital care as Health Call launches new diabetes service
Health Call has launched a new digital health service for gestational diabetes in the North East of England. The collaboration of NHS trusts has designed the programme to observe and check on the progress of expectant mothers with the condition. It is the first in a number of digitised care […]
Embrace “full automation” to release “time to care” in the NHS and social care, says top surgeon, Lord Darzi
The NHS could free up frontline time worth up to £12.5 billion a year, almost 10 per cent of its annual running cost, by investing in a far-reaching programme of automation, a report to be published later this month will say. A further £6 billion productivity gain could be realised […]
New funding to digitise information flow between adult social care and health settings
Local authorities, residential and domiciliary adult social care providers, researchers, academic organisations working in partnership with health organisations are being invited to apply for new funding to enable better sharing of social care and clinical information and data. The NHS Digital funding, split into three streams, is designed to support […]
