A piece of equipment known as a vein finder is being used at Derriford Hospital, part of University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, in order to improve the experience for patients with hard-to-find veins. Sarah Harvey, lead specialist nurse for rheumatology, describes how the technology “works by infrared, which can bounce […]
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Scotland to expand Hospital at Home services with additional funding
£3.6 million in funding has been announced by the Scottish Government to support an expansion of Hospital at Home services. The funding aims to increase the number of patients managed through remote monitoring by 50 percent, and adds to £10.7 million in funding that has been provided since 2020. On […]
Kingston Hospital to introduce OX.DH to optimise the fertility pathway
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with OX.DH, a health tech start-up linked to the University of Oxford, to introduce its Assisted Reproduction (OX.ar) solution and healthcare platform. Cloud-native technology specialists OX.DH are to introduce OX.ar at Kingston Hospital in order to support patient-centric individualised care. The tech provides […]
Royal Papworth Hospital partners with CMR Surgical for surgical robot Versius
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is to work in partnership with CMR Surgical to install their modular surgical robot Versius for use in the hospital’s thoracic operating theatres. With its ability to mimic human arm joints, with up to four times more rotation than the human wrist, Versius provides […]
Mid and South Essex ICS commissions patient portal
Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System has commissioned the introduction of the Patients Know Best patient portal. The three-year deal across the region will see the portal introduced at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust and Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. It forms part of the ICS’s digital […]
NHS Shared Business Services to seek £60 million inventory management tech
A prior information notice has been published regarding early engagement exercise plans for NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) to establish an inventory management software framework for £60,000,000. NHS SBS intends to form the framework to offer inventory management providers a compliant route to market, across a number of lots. The […]
Diagnostics recovery and transformation strategy published for Wales
The Welsh government has published their ‘Diagnostics Recovery and Transformation Strategy for Wales 2023-2025’, setting out the immediate priorities and objectives of the National Diagnostics Board. Opening the strategy, minister for health and social services Eluned Morgan states that the document is designed to support the system in working together […]
Funding for digital menopause support programme Seren
Lumino, an innovator focused on “reinventing how mental health treatment is delivered” and part of the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre’s Accelerator, has been awarded funding from Bayer Health to develop its digital menopausal support programme Seren with support from Eastern Academic Health and Science Network (AHSN). Seren is a therapeutic […]
PRSB publishes Wound Care Information Standard
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published its Wound Care Information Standard, aiming to improve wound care by supporting evidence-based practice and consistency in recording information. The standard has been commissioned by the National Wound Care Strategy Programme, and is designed to support their objectives: to prevent the development […]
What is the role of digital in the new GP access recovery plan?
NHS England has published the new GP access recovery plan, with a focus to develop a sustainable general practice, improve digital access and tools, support citizen remote care, build capacity and expand supporting services such as community pharmacies. The blueprint “sets out actions to improve access to care, better support patients […]
