NHSX is to launch and implement a Data Strategy for Health and Social Care, as part of measures announced by Matt Hancock this week to streamline processes and reduce excess bureaucracy. The new report ‘Busting bureaucracy: empowering frontline staff by reducing excess bureaucracy in the health and care system‘, sets […]
Secondary Care
Coventry and Warwickshire licences anonymised ophthalmology patient data
Artificial intelligence and health data company, RAIR Health, has signed a deal with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust to access anonymised patient data in the field of ophthalmology. The company focuses on the development of proprietary insights from ophthalmic data and images, and has signed a non-exclusive data license […]
Nuffield Health commits to cloud-first approach
Nuffield Health is working with managed services provider, Node4, to move to a cloud-first infrastructure. The healthcare charity is replacing its legacy infrastructure with a migration to Microsoft Azure cloud and DevOps Managed Services from Node4. Paul Bryce, Chief Commercial Officer at Node4, said: “Now more than ever, organisations like Nuffield Health […]
South Tees signs deal with Alcidion to adopt clinical decision support
South Tees Hospitals NHS FT has signed a deal to implement technology from Alcidion to integrate systems and utilise clinical decision support. As part of the trust’s best of breed strategy, the tools will help to integrate data between systems, automate routine tasks and support clinical staff with proactive aid for decision […]
NHS Scotland opens £216 million laboratory information management system tender
NHS National Services Scotland has opened a tender, worth an estimated £216 million, to procure a new single Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). On behalf of all NHS Health Boards in Scotland, the procurement aims to replace existing Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) held at individual Health Boards over the next […]
App to help prevent acute kidney injury and pneumonia offered to trusts
NHS trusts are being offered a free trial of an app aimed to help prevent hospital-acquired acute kidney injury and pneumonia. The Compass app, provides NHS clinical staff with a tool for accurately assessing each patient’s risk of developing the conditions in hospital, so that appropriate action can be taken […]
North West clinical trainees staff bank goes live with 6 trusts
A new initiative led by St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with 6 trusts to form a collaborative staff bank to pool their temporary staff and automate shifts for clinical trainees. The North West Doctors in Training Collaborative Staff Bank is being formed to enable up to 35 […]
Hull University Teaching deploys DXC Technology’s mobile app
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed DXC Technology’s Clinical Aide app to provide staff with mobile access to its electronic patient record. The app provides access to a patient’s allergies, problems, observations, medication, results and other documented information, and is supporting healthcare teams at the hospital access patient records in […]
Video: Transforming to a paper-light environment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals
For HTN Now November we hosted a session with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to explore their journey to digitise patient records. In the session we hear about the implementation and lessons learned from their programme to become paper-light, and we also hear about the digital strategy and plans for […]
£16m funding for trusts to introduce digital prescribing
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced 16 NHS trusts across England will receive a share of £16 million to introduce electronic prescribing. The funding is being introduced to help trusts replace paper-based systems, with an aim to support the entire NHS become digital for prescribing by 2024. […]
