Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has successfully secured £3million funding from NHS England and has been confirmed as the latest trust joining the Global Digital Exemplar Fast Follower programme. Simon Gilby, Chief Executive at CWPT said “This is a significant step towards our ambition of harnessing more technology to […]
Secondary Care
Manchester surgeons live stream surgery to thousands across the world
Surgeons at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital have performed live specialist surgery to over 100 trainee doctors at an Italian conference and over 1,000 online. Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeons Felipe Dhawahir-Scala and Niall Patton each performed a Vitreoretinal (VR) procedure on two patients, which was live streamed to an audience […]
Barts Health starts move to the cloud
Barts Health, has signed a three year agreement to modernise its infrastructure and move its technology to a cloud based service. The agreement has been signed with Capgemini to move the data centre to the cloud, with an aim to free up physical space across the trust, as well as […]
Industry View: Better tech is not a ‘nice to have’ but vital to have for the NHS
In a speech delivered last week Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock said “better tech is not a ‘nice to have’ but vital to have for the NHS”. He spoke about the importance of people, standards, leadership, culture and scalability in order to achieve digital transformation across health and care. In this […]
NHSX plans to set minimum tech spend for trusts regulators reveal
NHSX, with NHS England and NHS Improvement will be exploring setting a minimum level of tech spend for NHS trusts. Included within the NHS Operational Planning and Contracting Guidance 2020/2021 the organisations will be exploring the level of funding required so the NHS achieves digital transformation by 2024. NHSX will […]
NHSX to embed staff in NHS trusts
NHSX the organisation leading on digital transformation for the NHS and social care is looking to embed NHSX people in NHS trusts. The move aims to help the organisation understand how best to support the frontline in buying and building health tech. Iain O’Neil, Acting Digital Transformation Director, NHSX said”If […]
Interview Series: Suzanne Ali-Hassan, Head of Commercial Engagement, UCL Partners
In our latest interview we asked Suzanne Ali-Hassan, Head of Commercial Engagement at UCLPartners, a few questions about the organisation, innovation and adoption into health and care. Can you tell me about you and your organisation? I’m a molecular biologist by background so was grounded in the life sciences, however, […]
One Dorset Pathology picks CliniSys
One Dorset Pathology, a collaboration between Dorset County Hospital, Poole Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals is set to adopt a single laboratory information system from CliniSys. The group will utilise the WinPath Enterprise platform to support the development of a pathology hub and spoke service, to improve the […]
Junior doctor health tech start up raises £3m
Patchwork, a health the start up launched in 2016 by two junior doctors has raised £3m for its next phase of growth. The company helps to solve the NHS staffing crisis by supporting organisations cost effectively fill vacant shifts, costing the NHS billions each year the company said. Praetura Ventures […]
Hancock “better tech is not a ‘nice to have’ but vital to have for the NHS”
In a speech delivered on Tuesday, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock raised technology higher on the agenda than ever before and spoke about the importance of people, standards, leadership and scalability. He talked about leadership and the importance of every CEO leading on digital transformation, backed by […]
