HTN is delighted to announce that Dr Minal Bakhai will be joining us at the upcoming HTN Digital Primary Care Conference 2022, to deliver a keynote speech. The one-day conference takes place on 2 March 2022, from 9:00am-3:00pm, providing practical, educational and informative sessions focused around digital solutions within primary care. […]
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HTN Digital Primary Care agenda revealed
HTN is delighted to reveal the agenda for HTN Digital Primary Care, our one-day online conference, taking place on 2 March 2022. Join HTN and colleagues from 9:00am-3:00pm, for the free-to-attend online conference, providing practical, educational and informative sessions focused around digital solutions within primary care. The day includes talks […]
NHSE opens staff awareness sessions on new patient access to GP records
Primary care patients will be able to access new entries in their own GP records from April 2022, with NHS England (NHSE) now opening information and awareness sessions to help staff adapt to the changes. As HTN originally reported in November 2021, patients who use online accounts – such as […]
GP IT system suppliers awarded contracts in Wales
Digital Health and Care Wales has announced three GP IT suppliers have been awarded contracts on a new framework to supply systems and services for primary care in Wales. The national health body for Wales has awarded Cegedim Healthcare Solutions, EMIS Health and TPP contracts as part of a five-year deal. Following […]
DHSC publishes Tech Innovation Framework notice for GP IT
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a ‘prior information notice’ for its Tech Innovation Framework, to advise the market of a forthcoming opportunity for foundation electronic patient record solutions and associated capabilities, for primary care. The new Tech Innovation Framework hopes to ‘encourage innovation’ and ‘news ways of […]
In focus: NHSX delivery plan for digital transformation timelines
NHSX has released its ‘Delivery Plan’ for digital transformation within health and care, outlining how the organisation aims to digitise services, as well as connect the NHS and drive transformation. The plan, it states, is intended to describe what’s being commissioned, and ‘what is being delivered when’, to enable frontline […]
South East London ICS launches scheme to improve digital access
NHS South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) has launched a new scheme to improve digital access for people with learning disabilities or severe mental illness. As part of a £60,000 project, funded by ‘Digital First Primary Care’ run by NHS England and NHS Improvement, the programme focuses on improving digital access […]
Exclusive: Huma announces acquisition of iPLATO Healthcare to expand remote monitoring reach
Global digital technology company Huma Therapeutics has acquired patient engagement software specialists, iPLATO Healthcare, HTN can reveal. The move will see the two health tech giants join forces to advance their remote patient monitoring offering for the UK primary care sector. Huma, which uses its technology to power ‘hospitals at […]
Market engagement launches for GP cloud telephony
NHSX has opened a market engagement process for GP cloud telephony solutions for NHS organisations. Published 8 December, taking the form of a survey, the body is seeking to hear from interested suppliers to inform a national strategy and framework for cloud telephony in primary care. The information notice states […]
Cheshire and Merseyside digital first team to develop BP@home blueprint
Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership is developing a digital blueprint to share learnings from its BP@Home programme. Led by the partnership’s Digital First Primary Care team, the programme is distributing blood pressure monitors to people who have been diagnosed with uncontrolled high blood pressure and who could benefit from regular […]
