Barts Health NHS Trust has reported a rise in the number of GPs using the advice and guidance (A&G) service, through the NHS e-Referral Service. The service, which supports clinicians to seek advice from each other, has grown to 2,300 requests in one month – an increase of almost 200% […]
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Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital maturity satisfaction in focus
For our HTN Health Tech Trends Series 2021, supported by InterSystems, we sent out a survey to you – our audience – asking readers to respond to a series of questions around digital maturity satisfaction levels, the best technology your organisations have adopted and how close you are to working […]
Sunderland City Council connects to Great North Care Record
Sunderland City Council is the first local authority in the North East and North Cumbria area to connect to the health information exchange across the region. 400 GP practices, five NHS trusts and the North East Ambulance Service are connected to the system, with Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust being […]
HEE launches e-learning to support video group clinics in primary care
Health Education England (HEE) has partnered with Redmoor Health, ELC Programmes, e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) and NHS England and Improvement to launch e-learning tools and sessions for video group clinics in primary and community care settings. The video group clinics (VGC) e-learning programme provides resources that support learners in understanding […]
Remote patient monitoring connects care homes with family doctors in NE London
A remote patient monitoring service is set to be implemented in care homes across north east London, to connect facilities with family doctors. The remote service – called the Inhealthcare Professional app – will support clinicians in identifying patients that may need interventions, while also keeping residents safely at home […]
Mapping tool introduced by NHS South, Central and West CSU for home visits
NHS South, Central and West CSU (SCW) has introduced new mapping and modelling techniques to support housebound patient visits for GPs and nurses in Somerset. The tool went live on 4 February 2021 to help reach as many patients in a day, in the least number of journeys. The CSU […]
NHS Digital announces improvements to e-Referral Service
NHS Digital has made improvements to the advice function on its NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS), following feedback from clinicians. These changes focus on providing primary care clinicians with ‘an effective tool’ to talk to staff in secondary care settings before making a referral, thereby improving the referral system for patients […]
Industry collaboration on usability standards; moving away from a one-size-fits-all model
On the first day of the HETT Show 2021, an afternoon panel of health tech and NHS digital brains tackled the topic of industry collaboration on usability standards. Areas covered on the agenda included user experience and uptake of services, co-ordinating real-world evidence and real-world users, improving the accessibility and […]
NHSX supports smartphone tech for detecting early kidney disease
A smartphone app that utilises AI is set to help NHS patients transmit test results to GPs within ‘minutes’. The ‘pioneering’ technology from Healthy.io – called CKD Early Detection Service – transforms a smartphone camera into a ‘clinical-grade tool’ that detects early kidney disease. The tech is part of the […]
EMIS and Elemental enhance reporting for social prescribing
GP practices using EMIS Web will be able to benefit from a new improved integration with social prescribing technology from Elemental. The new integration supports reporting for GPs to understand the uptake of social prescribing in the community. It means GP practices can view a patient’s journey and can make […]
