Hertfordshire Local Area Partnership’s SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) Improvement Plan developed with NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB, has outlined plans to develop a data dashboard to promote shared understanding of SEND provision and quality in the Hertfordshire region. The plan builds upon a strategy running until 2025 that […]
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National roll-out for NHS App waiting times feature
NHS England has announced the national rollout of the average waiting time feature to be introduced in the NHS App, for patients referred into a speciality at NHS acute trusts. The rollout follows a trial with Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where the introduction of the feature was viewed as a […]
Health Innovation Hub Ireland announces winning FemTech companies
Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) has announced eleven winners for its first Irish FemTech call to industry, which sought innovations addressing issues in women’s health with the 11 winners including innovators with solutions such as apps to track symptoms, wearable solutions, and a chatbot for answers to questions on menopause. […]
Strategy for hybrid closed loop tech recognises it as “next step in evolution of diabetes technology”
NHS England has published a five-year implementation strategy for hybrid closed loop (HCL) technologies, recognising them as “the next step in the evolution of diabetes technology”, but noting the “clinical capacity constraints in the NHS, and ongoing workforce specialist training requirements” involved in implementation. The strategy is designed to provide […]
NHS Education for Scotland announces e-Pad, enabling “paperless placements” for nursing students
NHS Education for Scotland has announced the launch of “paperless placements” for nursing students at the University of Dundee, thanks to a digital tool developed by the NES Technology Service in collaboration with the NES Nursing and Midwifery pre-registration and practice education team. e-Pad, which stands for Electronic Placement Assessment […]
Guiding pathway principles and gold standard case studies from NHSE on technology enabled care referrals
NHS England has published guidance around technology enabled care (TEC) referrals, providing direction on how urgent community response (URC) and TEC provision can be linked, including guiding principles designed to support understanding of how to establish and maintain pathways from TEC providers into UCR, and “gold standard” case studies. The […]
Great Western Hospitals digital strategy places focus on access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has published its seven-year Digital Strategic Plan, which focuses on the five priority areas of access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy and sets a vision to help improve the trust’s digital maturity. The strategy’s vision is linked with the delivery of the trust’s […]
10 successful applicants announced for Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre health tech accelerator
Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) has announced the successful applicants for its 2024 Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme, with a total of 10 start-ups and SMEs from across the UK selected to benefit from specialist funding and support, including companies using AI, wearables and algorithms to improve health […]
HTN Now Awards 2023/24: meet the winners!
After a busy few months here at HTN in the lead-up to the HTN Now Awards 2023/24, and hours of judging from NHS health tech professionals, we can finally announce our winners and runners-up. The HTN Now awards provide a chance to showcase and celebrate hard work and innovative thinking […]
Welsh Nursing Care Record upgraded to single national database
An upgrade to the Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR) has seen eight separate databases replaced with a single national instance, in a move hoped to bring efficiencies in managing, updating and applying new features, as well as improvements in patient care, patient access, and access to information across NHS Wales. […]
