We recently spoke with Claire Fuller, Chief Executive Officer at Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership, to get her thoughts on digital in primary care, the key skills needed by a digital leader, and her experience with her recent Fuller stocktake. Claire began by introducing herself and her role. I’m […]
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Interview: Ross Fullerton, Chief Digital and Information Officer at BOB ICS
For our Digital ICS event, we spoke to Ross Fullerton, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS). Ross kindly joined us to discuss his experiences in digital work with relation to his ICS, some of the challenges he has faced, and his learnings […]
HSC Northern Ireland publish digital strategy for 2022-2030
Health and Social Care (HSC) Northern Ireland have published their digital strategy for the next eight years, sharing their vision of “making lives better for the people of Northern Ireland, using digital to transform the way we deliver health, care and wellbeing services.” HSC published the strategy this week and […]
Hampshire Hospitals releases seven-year strategic plan with focus on digital
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has published its strategic plan focusing on priorities for the trust over the next seven years. The strategy is intended to help the trust achieve its vision “to provide outstanding care for every patient and is guided by its inclusive CARE values – compassionate and […]
Industry View: healthcare professionals react to the new digital health plan
Last week at HTN we focused on the Department of Health and Social Care’s new digital health plan. You can read our summary of the plan here. We wanted to know what healthcare experts thought of the plan, so we sent out a call for comment to share some of […]
In focus, the new plan for digital health and social care published
The Department of Health and Social Care has published “A plan for digital health and social care”, setting out their vision for a digitally-enabled health and social care system, collating existing digital strategies, plans and guidance into a single action plan. In the foreword Secretary for Health and Social Care Sajid […]
National Data Guardian shares views on the new health and care data strategy
The government recently released their new data strategy for health and care, “Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data”. We covered the strategy at HTN; click here to read our overview, or here to read industry views we curated. Now, the National Data Guardian Dr Nicola Byrne […]
‘Better, broader, safer’ report published on use of health data for research
‘Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis’ has been published, a report on how the safety and security of health data use can be improved. Professor Ben Goldacre was commissioned in February 2021 by the government to undertake the review. It is aimed at policy makers in […]
Barnsley Hospital focus on innovative working and new technology in five-year strategy
With the COVID-19 pandemic triggering change throughout the NHS and causing a need to reset and refocus, this week Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust published its new five-year strategy to capture the trust’s new vision, and how they will seek to achieve their aims. The strategy begins by stating, ‘We […]
NHS England publishes digital priorities for 2022/23
NHS England has published its digital priorities for the next 12 months, as part of a wider release on operational planning guidance across a number of areas. Entitled ‘2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance’, the 40-page document was released on 24 December 2021 and sets out NHS objectives for the next […]
