The National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) has published a prior information notice highlighting plans to develop an external assessment group framework, by commissioning groups capable of providing a range of health technology assessment services to support its technology evaluation programmes. The framework is split into three lots, […]
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HSE announces online task force for Ireland, and launches cancer elearning programme
Ireland’s minister for health Stephen Donnelly has announced the establishment of an online health taskforce with the aim of developing a public health response to the harms caused to children and young people by certain online activities. The taskforce has reportedly been set up “in recognition of a growing body […]
North London Mental Health Partnership to procure digital risk management and incident reporting system
North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) has shared plans to procure a digital local risk management and incident reporting system, with interested suppliers requested to complete a questionnaire by 18 September. Contextually, the notice highlights how the partnership currently sees Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden […]
Monash IVF goes live with OX.DH’s digital patient onboarding platform
Monash IVF, a fertility service provider in Australia and South East Asia, has launched the digital patient onboarding platform powered by OX.DH’s assisted reproduction (OX.ar) technology, with the expectation that the platform will eliminate the need for around 50,000 paper forms annually. OX.DH, a health tech start-up with links to […]
Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the NHS: digital in focus
The government has published its independent investigation into the NHS in England, following health and social care secretary Wes Streeting’s order of a full independent investigation earlier in the summer with the aim of exposing the “extent of the issues” facing the NHS. Professor Lord Darzi was selected to lead […]
Preventative health tech company Neko Health launches in London offering full body scan
Preventative health tech company Neko Health has launched in London with the opening of a Health Centre offering the ‘Neko Body Scan’, described as a “preventative health check for the future self” mapping millions of external and internal health data points on the body. Taking approximately 10 minutes, the scan […]
NHS England awards £37m contract for digital urgent and emergency care transformation
NHS England has awarded a contract to support the transformational activities of the digital urgent and emergency team, worth an estimated £37,415,000, to Kainos Software Limited. The initial focus will be on NHS pathways, directory of services and urgent and emergency care data delivery areas, with the contract also to […]
Nottingham University Hospitals experiences critical IT incident; returns to business as usual
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has experienced a critical incident within its pathology services, declaring that the incident was “the result of an IT failure” which “affected our ability to process blood test results in a timely fashion”; as of today, the critical incident has been stood down. As a […]
Ireland HSE’s Digital Health Roadmap in focus, with aim for digital budget between 4% – 6% of overall healthcare expenditure
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has published its Digital Health Roadmap, setting out a vision to create better health outcomes through a digitally enabled environment around six core principles: the patient as an empowered partner; workforce and workplace; digitally enabled and connected care; data-driven services; digital health ecosystem and innovation; […]
Applications open for Accelerating FemTech support programme with October deadline
National support programme Accelerating FemTech has opened for applications, with the aim of providing early-stage companies and innovators focused on women’s health with commercial and funding support. Accelerating FemTech is run by Health Innovation Network South London and wider UK partners and offers a ten-week programme to 20 innovators in […]
