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

Sussex ICS launches digital discharge planner to improve information sharing across teams

Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System implements digital feedback platform

DHSC publishes prior information notice for interoperability architecture to support social care data sharing

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

Sussex Health and Care shares update on digital progress from the past year

HTN Digital ICS Regional Series

Picks

Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: North East and Yorkshire

DHSC updates on medtech strategy progress, including work around adoption, infrastructure and more

Panel discussion: engaging your board and workforce with digital buy-in

Digital transformation from a finance perspective: insights from Jonathan Lee, assistant director for business and finance at Digital Notts

Panel discussion: the future of patient portals – “the decisions in design and technology implementation we take now, will critically impact the future of healthcare delivery”

Scotland’s Genomic Medicine Strategy 2024-2029 highlights need for “secure, scalable digital infrastructure”

Digital ICS

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

NHSE on developing an infrastructure strategy highlights need to support “modern, digitally enabled patient care pathways”

NHSE priorities and operational guidance for 2024/25 emphasises need for “strong digital foundations”

NHSE shares aim to create a single source of truth for community health services in new data plan

NHSE webinar to support suppliers with new Carbon Reduction Plan requirements

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

£4 million South Yorkshire digital healthcare hub set to “lead the UK’s digital revolution and address inequalities in patient care”

Humber Teaching reveals EPR provider, “following a dedicated period of procurement”

South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub receives Google investment in health tech research and training

Humber Teaching NHS plans redesign of mental health crisis referral pathways

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

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

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

FINANCE DATA

NHS contract awarded to scale up virtual wards across West Yorkshire ICB

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 ICS strategy for learning and improvement community

At-home cholesterol test to pilot across North East and North Cumbria

North West

Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership

Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership

Mid Cheshire Hospitals and Canon highlight impact of community diagnostic centre

Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) has announced the successful applicants for its 2024 Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme.

Manchester University NHS FT appoints new CDIO

Cheshire and Merseyside digital first team to develop BP@home blueprint

HTN Now: NHSE blueprinting team and Manchester NHS FT on their journey with EMIS migration

Cheshire and Merseyside tech kit recycling project targets digitally excluded

North East and North Cumbria ICS strategy for learning and improvement community

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

Data flows from a phone

Midlands and Lancashire CSU procures £400,000 eating disorder app

Data flow

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB opens £1m tender for digital mental health support for young people

The Midlands

Coventry and Warwickshire

Herefordshire and Worcestershire

NHS Greater Manchester

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire utilises AI process mining tool to improve processes

Three integrated care systems join for large shared care records project

The role of digital in Coventry and Warwickshire’s maternity system strategy

National PPE system, Herefordshire and Worcestershire EPMA contract, Mid and South Essex communications platform

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire introduces new EPR programme

Joined up care Derbyshire

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton holds ‘Paper2Pixels’ events to streamline digitisation of paper records

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

Data flowing

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

Lincolnshire ICB launches app for live urgent and emergency care waiting times

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s publishes tender for EPR integration and data migration services

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

Data flowing

Birmingham and Solihull ICS strategy highlights central role of data in service design

Lincolnshire Community Health Services shares virtual ward approach and benefits

Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Northampton General Hospital announces preferred EPR supplier

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS’s insight report highlights digital in delivery access and data in promoting capacity

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

Digital priorities from North East London, Somerset, Nottingham and Northamptonshire integrated care systems

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has revealed that it has selected TPP SystmOne as its sole EPR provider, "following a dedicated period of procurement". 

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS selects EPR

EPMA goes live at Nottingham University Hospitals

Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin

The Black Country

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust shares digital strategy until 2025

Black Country ICB opens procurement for digital tech to support independence

People sit around a table working

New eye-care electronic referral system to launch across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS

Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System implements digital feedback platform

Together we're better - Staffordshire and Stoke-onTrent

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare pilots VR tech to support staff wellbeing

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

Studio engages with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Wellbeing Hub for “truthful representation” of psychosis in game

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB updates on digital progress for care homes

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 NHS FT chief exec Matthew Hopkins on implementing a system-wide EPR, investing in foundational tech, and more

Mid and South Essex digital action plan to deliver “excellent, connected care through being a digital-first organisation”

Norfolk and Waveney Health and Care Partnership

Suffolk and North East Essex

Norfolk and Waveney ICB among eight organisations joining InSites innovation programme

Data flow

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust goes live with new secure digital messaging platform

Patients in Northamptonshire are being offered a new treatment for depression featuring a headset and behaviour training app.

Suffolk and North East Essex ICS on developing a culture of innovation

South West

Our Dorset

Somerset

Remote monitoring pilot for cancer patients in Dorset

NHS Digital surveys developers to learn more about API needs

Predictive modelling, data dashboards and early warning systems feature in strategic data themes from Somerset NHS

Data flow

News in brief: NHS Dorset seeks digital engagement volunteers, audio guides in the South West, green schemes in Hertfordshire and London

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Health and Care Partnership

What's happening in digital and data across the South West?

News in brief: upgraded catheterisation lab in Birmingham, sight loss e-learning in Shropshire, virtual ward update from Cornwall, and more

NHSE issues prior information notice for dental digital referral solution for the South West

West Yorkshire Joint forward plan

Teledermatology service supporting waiting list reductions in Cornwall

North East and North Cumbria ICS strategy for learning and improvement community

Royal Cornwall Hospitals set to launch electronic patient record system

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

One Gloucestershire

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICS launches digital pilot to support COPD patients in their own homes

One Gloucestershire triage app supports COVID-19 response

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

FINANCE DATA

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

Together for Devon

Royal Devon University Healthcare initiates new patient communications policy

DHSC NHS Cyber Security

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 ICB opens market engagement for remote monitoring tech

Medway NHS FT seeks views on new digital, data and technology strategy

Interview Series: Dr Tamara Everington, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Hampshire Hospitals NHS FT

For HTN Now, we welcomed Faye Brooks, Head of Population Health Management at Hampshire & Isle of Wight ICS to share their population health management journey

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West

Frimley Health and Care

virtual care

Pilot projects in Buckinghamshire to further develop community diagnostic centre care pathways

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

people working around a computer

Sussex ICS launches digital discharge planner to improve information sharing across teams

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

Sussex Health and Care shares update on digital progress from the past year

Interview: Dr Claire Fuller, Chief Executive Officer at Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership

London

North Central London Partners in Health and Care

North East London Health and Care Partnership

Electrocardiographic imaging vest developed by UCL and Royal Free researchers supports 800 patients

Interview: “We need to push for more collaborative working” Dr Osman Bhatti, GP and CCIO at North East London ICB

NHS Digital has announced a new feature to be added to the NHS App, which will give patients information about their status on the waiting list and the estimated wait time before they receive treatment.

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

North West London

Our Healthier South East London

Interview: “Involve everybody”, Clare Gallagher, project manager for social prescribing, Digital First at NHS North West London ICB

Plans for increased digitalisation highlighted in South East London ICS estates and infrastructure strategy

Central and North West London NHS awards contract for digital neurodevelopment assessments

South West London Health and Care Partnership

South West London ICB shares how digital triage improves primary care access

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

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