A ‘Readiness Dashboard’ has been set up to perform self-automated checks on defibrillators at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, as part of a new project to ensure that the devices are “always ready to be used”. Following work by the medical electronics team to reconfigure the […]
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Clatterbridge Cancer Centre launches new digital strategy emphasising digital foundations, patient and staff empowerment, and better use of data
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has launched a new digital strategy, emphasising digital foundations, patient and staff empowerment, and better use of data. With the overarching digital mission to “harness the power of digital technology and data to transform care, improving patient outcomes and experience”; the strategy identifies four themes: digitally […]
Data reviews and targeted services take focus in strategy from Cambridge University Hospitals
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s ‘CUH Together 2025’ strategy highlights the role of digital and technology in improving care as well as outlining plans around the development of targeted services, virtual wards, patient portals, digital consent and more. The strategy summarises key commitments across patient care, supporting staff and […]
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s publishes tender for EPR integration and data migration services
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has published a tender for EPR programme data migration and integration services, to support the implementation of the trust’s Epic programme. The procurement is for the development, deployment, and management of integration between the trust’s legacy systems and EPR, with the trust aiming […]
VR tech to support psychosis patients demonstrates positive findings in Early Value Assessment
A VR therapy has received a positive Early Value Assessment from NICE, with a clinical trial taking place at NHS trusts including Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) NHS Foundation Trust demonstrating that the technology “led to reductions in anxiety and distress in everyday situations compared with usual care alone”. The […]
Electrocardiographic imaging vest developed by UCL and Royal Free researchers supports 800 patients
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has shared insight into an electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) vest developed by their researchers alongside a research team from University College London, which sees electrical data from 256 sensors combined with MRI images to generate 3D digital models of the heart and its electrical activity. […]
Lincolnshire Community Health Services shares virtual ward approach and benefits
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has shared an update on its virtual ward programme, detailing its approach and some of the benefits it has noted, including a frailty virtual ward with just under 500 admissions in its first year, supporting a reported saving of “more than 2,000 hospital […]
North Lancashire and South Cumbria pilots AI and teledermoscopy tech
A pilot programme combining AI and teledermoscopy with the aim of diagnosing and treating people with skin cancer earlier is underway in North Lancashire and South Cumbria, and is hoped to enable clinicians to “review more suspected cancer cases in a shorter space of time”. In partnership with medical technology company […]
Leeds Teaching Hospitals introduces 3D heart replicas to support surgical interventions
A biomedical engineer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has created 3D heart replicas with the aim to support surgical interventions for patients with congenital heart defects. Scans are taken of a patient’s heart and turned into a 3D replica using computer-aided design; these designs can then be studied […]
HTN Now: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals on the implementation of an integrated referral management platform
For a recent HTN Now webinar, we welcomed Rebecca Coughlan, therapy manager of outpatient services at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHR), to present how the North East London Musculoskeletal Alliance has improved the quality of referrals and significantly reduced waiting times using integrated referral management platform NEC […]
