AccuRx, a health-tech company focused on ‘bringing together everyone involved in a patient’s care’ has raised £27.5 million in Series B funding. The company announced the news this week, with plans for the funding to be used to ‘build a patient-centred communication platform for the healthcare system’. Supported by Lakestar, a […]
Primary Care News
Video: Eva Health explain co-admin eVacc software at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021
At our Digital Primary Care conference last month, we hosted a variety of live webcasts and discussion sessions from healthcare providers, NHS representatives and industry experts. We’ve been recapping some of the sessions over the past month, with one of the most topical for September being Eva Health’s talk on […]
Wales awards community e-scheduling contract
NHS Wales has awarded a contract to Malinko to supply its digital scheduling tool for 3,000 community healthcare professionals. Following a successful pilot with district nurses who are part of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg and Aneurin Bevan University Health Boards, the tool will now be rolled out across Wales. The roll-out […]
GP machine learning tech raises £2.1million
Abtrace, a health-tech start-up, has raised £2.1 million of seed funding to support its machine learning technology and transform how chronic and long-term health conditions are detected, monitored and treated. The AI tool integrates with GP practice systems to help identify which tests or treatments a patient with a long-term […]
Market engagement starts for GP online triage tech across Scotland
NHS National Services Scotland, on behalf of Scottish Government, has opened a market information gathering exercise for the provision of GP Online Triage Solutions or General Practice Digital Asynchronous Consultation Systems for up to 925 GP practices. General Practice Digital Asynchronous Consultation Systems (DACS) is a term used in the […]
South East London CCG procures clinical decision support tool
South East London CCG has awarded a £500,000 contract to Ardens Health Informatics, to implement its clinical decision support tool. The system in being introduced to support clinical teams with “immediate and easy access to relevant diagnostic, treatment and referral resources” and will integrate with the EMIS Web clinical system […]
North Tyneside CCG partners with Livi for GP video consultations
North Tyneside CCG has completed a 12-month pilot with Livi, providing patients across the area with an option to book NHS GP video appointments. The CCG introduced the service in July 2020, in response to health services being extremely busy and to provide greater choice to patients. It now means […]
New interactive dashboard shows local GP inequalities across England
The Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge has created a new, interactive dashboard which allows local health systems to view the inequalities in the distribution of the general practice workforce, across individual practices and areas. Hosted on the Primary Care Unit website, the dashboard shows data from across all […]
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Babylon partner to deliver digital-first services
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has agreed a new five-year deal with Babylon Health to introduce its value-based care service, Babylon 360, to support patients at the trust’s nine GP practices. The trust partnered with Babylon Health in 2020, introducing its COVID-19 app and providing its AI digital care […]
Video: Dr Osman Bhatti discusses GPDPR at HTN Digital Primary Care
There are plenty of great moments, learnings and tips still yet to be mined from our archive of talks at the first ever HTN Digital Primary Care conference earlier this month. You can discover and watch back the sessions in full by visiting the video section of the HTN website, […]
