King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced plans to roll-out a new electronic health record. The trust has secured funding to move ahead with the EPIC electronic patient record system, with a planned launch to take place in 2023. Teams at the trust involving clinical, operational and digital, are […]
Secondary Care
HEE develops toolkits to support adult social care digital champions
Health Education England (HEE) has created two toolkits to help embed digital skills, confidence and best practice within the health and care workforce. HEE cites research from Lloyds Bank’s UK Consumer 2020 Index, which estimates that 52 per cent of ‘people in the [UK] workforce lack digital skills in the workplace’ […]
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 […]
CNWL live with EPMA and adopts QR code tech
This month, Central and North West London NHS FT (CNWL) has now gone live with its electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system across all acute admission mental health wards. The trust has also launched a new project utilising videos and QR code technologies to provide medicines information. The trust […]
RNOH adopts digital patient pathway tech
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) has launched a new solution to digitise referral managmeent, consent and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. The Pathpoint solution, from Open Medical, was implemented initially in 2020 to digitise patient care pathways, and was first implemented to receive and process trauma referrals. The solution […]
Central and North West London NHS goes live with TPP’s clinician app
Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) has introduced a new TPP app across some of its mental health wards. TPP’s clinician app Brigid, the mobile addition to SystmOne, is designed for staff to input key information from anywhere. Following a successful three-week pilot, the trust has now […]
Hologram patients to support CUH clinical training
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS FT and the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, have partnered with US tech company GigXR, to introduce hologram patients as part of mixed reality clinical training. The technology provides an immersive 3D learning application to help students assess, diagnose, and treat conditions through holographic simulations. […]
Leeds Hospitals creates app for liver transplant patients
Clinicians from the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have created a new mobile app to help transplant patients better manage their health after operations. Called TAPP, the app has so far received positive feedback from patients in Leeds, and the team are now looking to roll-out the tech both nationally […]
UK specialist cancer trusts announce Digital Star Awards 2021 winners
The Digital Stars Awards 2021, an event which showcases the achievements by staff at three of the UK’s specialist cancer trusts and centres, has announced this year’s winners at an online celebration. Bringing together digital, data, research and tech teams from The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, The Clatterbridge […]
Digital tool trial to provide remote monitoring for stroke patients
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced the trial of a new remote care tool called FibriCheck, which allows stroke patients to test themselves for a common heart condition, from the comfort of their own homes. CW Innovation – led by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS FT and […]
