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 […]
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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, […]
Evergreen Life partners with Cievert to champion patient-led healthcare
Evergreen Life has announced the acquisition of Cievert, a company that focuses on making complex care pathways simple through digital tools. Evergreen Life, established by former clinical pharmacist, Stephen Critchlow, aims to put people in control of their health and wellbeing to get the care they want. Through the acquisition […]
Video: X-on discuss how to support GP surgeries with call demand at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021
Cloud communications specialists X-on got the HTN Digital Primary Care conference underway last week by delivering our opening industry session. The company’s talk focused on how cloud telephony can support primary care providers with managing call demand, as well as remote consultations and other services. We were joined for this […]
Video: Katherine Church, Chief Digital Officer, from Surrey Heartlands CCG at HTN Digital Primary Care
At HTN Digital Primary Care 2021, we welcomed Katherine Church, Chief Digital Officer at Surrey Heartlands CCG to discuss the organisation’s approach to digital primary care. Katherine started the presentation by providing the audience with some context to her role, and her responsibilities as Chief Digital Officer: “My role is […]
Video: Dr John Parry, Clinical Director, and Dr Matt Curtis, Clinical Director from TPP, from HTN Digital Primary Care
At HTN’s first-ever Digital Primary Care conference we were joined by Dr John Parry, Clinical Director, and Dr Matt Curtis, Clinical Director from TPP, the company behind SystmOne. Dr. Parry started the discussion by providing an update on TPP’s work to develop their products for the upcoming flu season: “The […]
Video: Dr Ursula Montgomery keynote on the ‘future of general practice’ at HTN Digital Primary Care
Dr Ursula Montgomery, a GP and Senior Clinical Advisor for Primary Care at NHS England and Improvement, stepped up to deliver the first HTN Digital Primary Care keynote speech on the future of general practice, in our second live talk of the day. After doing a “stock take” of the […]
