Welcome to HTN's ICS Index

Here, HTN track the latest news and updates from each Integrated Care System (ICS), through this channel. 

We’ll bring you insights into their data and digital strategies as they develop, provide you with the latest news and updates, and speak with leaders from each ICS to help share their approach and learnings. 

You’ll be able to view the latest news, be informed on HTN events related to ICSs, view each ICS by region – and we’ll also pick out some key headline news for you. 

Latest

Panel discussion: scaling health tech, new modes of collaboration, and future digital leadership

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB shares plans for £10m digital front door

NHSE October board: data improvements, community mental health review, primary care surveys and more

HTN Now: Establishing a culture of security, privacy and compliance – “it’s now part of frontline care delivery”

AI across the NHS: supporting cancer identification, fracture detection and more

EPRs: contracts, market analysis, go-lives, insights from digital leaders, usability and system alerts…

Poll: Where should digital investment go in the short term?

NHS South West region opens early engagement for digital neighbourhoods

HTN Digital ICS Regional Series

Picks

Report into CQC effectiveness highlights challenges around provider platform, regulatory platform and data quality

Feature: Enovacom on interoperability and data sharing in digital mental health

HTN Now panel discussion: how can health and care tackle interoperability?

Interview: Owen Powell, ICT director at Central and North West London NHS on moving to cloud with the support of Rackspace Technology

Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center recommends that providers appoint CISO

Special report: Digital and data across Scotland

Digital ICS

Panel discussion: scaling health tech, new modes of collaboration, and future digital leadership

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB shares plans for £10m digital front door

£118m in funding to create new hubs and partnerships to develop health technologies

Poll: what should be the biggest priority for health and care cyber security?

Case Study: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT Command Centre

ICS Index

Here we share the latest news from each ICS – and we’ll continue to update this page going forward! You can also click on the name of the ICS below to visit their website. 

North East and Yorkshire

Humber, Coast and Vale

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System

Humber Teaching updates on virtual ward usage, and common reason for referral

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals outline aims around digital and data in operational and improvement strategies

NHS Humber Health Partnership launches Flow project designed to evaluate and streamline patient journey

South Yorkshire ICS publishes data and insights strategy for 2024-2026, sharing plans for data platform and alliance

NHS Humber Health Partnership launches Flow project designed to evaluate and streamline patient journey

North East and North Cumbria

West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership

North East and North Cumbria ICB reports on progress made in digitising social care

Innovate UK Launchpad programme offers a share of £500k in funding for innovation in West Yorkshire

HTN Now: Embedding a benefits framework, creating an engaged and positive project culture at North Cumbria Integrated Care

West Yorkshire ICB appoints new chief digital and information officer

North Cumbria Integrated Care launches 2024-2029 strategy, highlighting need to increase digital connectivity

West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts annual report highlights key role of tech in delivering improvements across the region

North East and North Cumbria ICS pledges to adopt analytics-driven approach in draft innovation strategy

North East and North Cumbria opens engagement for gamified scenario based cyber security exercise

North West

Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership

Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership

Cheshire and Merseyside ICB highlights potential of tech in empowering patients in Access Improvement Plan

Roadmap and priorities for Greater Manchester in new digital transformation strategy

Cheshire and Merseyside to launch tender for new telehealth platform

NHS Greater Manchester Board shares update on primary care blueprint, including digital telephony and access

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s plan to improve mental health services highlights data as “key enabler”

HTN Now: Transforming the waiting list into a preparation list for Cheshire and Merseyside ICS

Lancashire and South Cumbria

North Lancashire and South Cumbria pilots AI and teledermoscopy tech

Lancashire and South Cumbria report highlights shared digital approach for trusts and data work to tackle inequalities

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB’s virtual citizen panel to help shape services

The Midlands

Coventry and Warwickshire

Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies launches chatbot and mental health app

Three integrated care systems join for large shared care records project

Coventry and Warwickshire ICS on tackling health inequalities through virtual hub

£10k in funding available for innovations impacting patient care in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Coventry and Warwickshire ICS shares data on length of stay and waiting list reductions

Joined up care Derbyshire

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

News in Brief: mental health chatbot in Bradford, roll-out of virtual wards in Derbyshire, online booking system for blood tests in Bolton, and more

University Hospitals of Leicester virtual wards connects with Pioneer Wound Healing and Lymphedema Centres

Open opportunity for advice and training to tackle digital exclusion in North East Derbyshire

Re-wiring hospitals, data-sharing and remote monitoring feature in strategy from University Hospitals of Leicester

Lincolnshire

Live Healthy Live Happy Birmingham and Solihull

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust announces preferred EPR supplier

Interview: Kumbi Kariwo, Birmingham Community Healthcare, on utilising Isla for inclusive wound care

Lincolnshire Partnership launches Virtual Autism Hub with up to £100,000 in grants for autism support groups

Interview: Martin Sadler, executive director of IT and digital, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust

Video game launched to boost recruitment for pharmacy roles at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole and Hull University Teaching Hospitals

Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Northampton General Hospital signs 10-year contract for deployment of cloud-based EPR

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS shares insight into primary-secondary interface work

Headset and behaviour training app offered as depression treatment option in Northamptonshire

Nottingham University Hospitals experiences critical IT incident; returns to business as usual

Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin

The Black Country

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust rolls out paediatric vitals electronic system

Black Country ICB shares £354k opportunity for digital inequalities support service

News in brief: HydroBubble device for children with cystic fibrosis in South Warwickshire, Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals transformation programme approval, and more

Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System implements digital feedback platform

Together we're better - Staffordshire and Stoke-onTrent

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Digital Vision 2024 sets out initiatives including new shared care record

East of England

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Research and innovation hub in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes seeks applications for £15,000 awards for local innovators

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB shares plans for £10m digital front door

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS FT 2024-2029 maternity strategy highlights EPR plans for 2025

Hertfordshire and West Essex

Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership

Hertfordshire SEND Improvement Plan highlights developments in data and dashboards to prioritise services

Mid and South Essex ICS announces go-live of its shared care record

Annual report for Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative highlights key digital projects and outcomes

Norfolk and Waveney Health and Care Partnership

Suffolk and North East Essex

Norfolk and Waveney ICS shares update on Joint Forward Plan, including data used to map progress

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust shares £300k opportunity for remote patient monitoring system

South West

Our Dorset

Somerset

NHS Dorset ICB App Library sees 5,400 app recommendations made

Pilot to see direct referrals for breast diagnostics from NHS App in Somerset

University Hospitals Dorset appoints new chief digital officer

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Health and Care Partnership

Royal United Hospitals Bath research strategy highlights need to maximise potential of big data analytics

Royal Cornwall Hospitals outlines role of digital and data in research and development strategy

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB highlights progress on patient empowerment, engagement and inclusion

Teledermatology service supporting waiting list reductions in Cornwall

Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: South West

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

One Gloucestershire

HTN’s interview series: North East London ICB, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB, and more

News in brief: anxiety app for children in Gloucestershire, mental health support website in Portsmouth, ‘DadPad’ app in Coventry, and more

Interview: “To be able to predict and understand where we’ll get the best impact for people is gold” Deborah El-Sayed, director of transformation and CDIO at BNSSG ICB

Collaborative Health Innovation Lab launched in Gloucestershire

NHS blueprinting team, Gloucestershire Hospitals and Polygeist on using AI to tackle length of stay

Together for Devon

Telehealth provider chosen for digital prehab trial in Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset

Royal Devon University Healthcare moves to ‘digital by default’ approach for outpatient letters

Devon Partnership NHS Trust goes live with EPR

South East

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

Kent and Medway

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare shares plans to procure EPMA system

HTN Now: Kent and Medway ICS operational control centre – a collaborative approach

Hampshire Hospitals implements platform to monitor and tackle air pollution at hospital sites

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West

Frimley Health and Care

Interview: “the ICB will give you the ability to build design squads, and user researchers that work across the ICB” Ian Roddis, director of digital, data and technology at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

AI trial at Frimley Health NHS aims to support lung cancer triage and diagnosis

Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership

Sussex Health and Care Partnership

Surrey Heartlands ICS awards contract for virtual care digital platform solution

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust awards 10-year EPR contract

Surrey Heartlands ICB opens £3 million virtual care digital platform tender

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust announces new chief digital and data officer

London

North Central London Partners in Health and Care

North East London Health and Care Partnership

North Central London ICB and Islington GP Federation pilot AI and WhatsApp solution for appointment scheduling

North East London NHS Foundation Trust launches market engagement around ADHD tech

Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: London

North West London

Our Healthier South East London

Interview: Owen Powell, ICT director at Central and North West London NHS on moving to cloud with the support of Rackspace Technology

NHS England shares impact on appointments and procedures for South East London cyber attack

North West London Acute Provider Collaborative appoints chief information officer across four trusts

South West London Health and Care Partnership

The role of digital in NHS South West London ICB’s board updates on winter planning, urgent and emergency care, and progress around the Board Assurance Framework

South West London ICB shares findings and recommendations from digital otoscopy pilot

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