£1m in funding from NHSE for seven trusts through the Wireless Trials programme

London

Three new trusts join London Care Record

NHS Dorset is searching for volunteers to join its Digital Public Engagement Group (DPEG), with the aim of helping to develop digital health and care services. 

Bolton NHS FT pilots animated videos to help patients understand breast cancer treatment

Patient portal to launch at George Eliot Hospital

NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB and Herefordshire Council share £2.2 million opportunity for Tech Enabled Care Service.

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

Latest healthcare news on digital transformation

Legacy information systems: approaches from across the NHS

Leicester

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

Virtual reality used to support sepsis identification at Great Western Hospitals

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

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has published its Digital Strategic Plan 2023-2030, focusing on five "priority areas", which are: access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy.

Great Western Hospitals digital strategy places focus on access, infrastructure, applications, information and digital literacy

GOSH joins consortium of children’s hospitals to collaborate on decentralised data ecosystem

Hand holding the world

Northumbria Healthcare’s action plan to tackle climate change shares “digital by default” target

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

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

Care platform connecting over 1k patients with clinical team at Northumbria Healthcare

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh

Readiness Dashboard performs self-automated checks on defibrillators at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has expanded its new digital appointment service, allowing patients the ability to receive appointment reminders by SMS and to access important details about upcoming appointments directly from their mobile phone.

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre launches new digital strategy emphasising digital foundations, patient and staff empowerment, and better use of data

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust revalidates against HIMSS EMRAM State 7 standard

Data reviews and targeted services take focus in strategy from Cambridge University Hospitals

Birmingham and Solihull ICS has published its latest ten-year strategy, "A Bolder, Healthier Future for the People of Birmingham and Solihull: Strategy for Health and Care 2023 - 2033", highlighting the key role of data in tackling inequalities.

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

Virtual reality

VR tech to support psychosis patients demonstrates positive findings in Early Value Assessment

A biomedical engineer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has created 3D heart replicas to allow surgeons to make more informed decisions on surgical interventions for patients with congenital heart defects.

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

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has shared an update on its virtual ward programme, twelve months after its launch.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services shares virtual ward approach and benefits

VitalHub has announced its acquisition of Canadian-based Strata Health, a company offering solutions relating to patient access and "navigation to care"

North Lancashire and South Cumbria pilots AI and teledermoscopy tech

Leeds Teaching Hospitals introduces 3D heart replicas to support surgical interventions

A journal article published in The Lancet Digital Health, has set out recommendations to support data infrastructure transformation.

HTN Now: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals on the implementation of an integrated referral management platform

Research leaders at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using a new digital dashboard to analyse data on research activity, which is helping to "inform and embolden" their strategic thinking and planning. 

Digital dashboard helping to analyse data on research activity in Newcastle

Latest healthcare news on digital transformation

Focus on improving core systems and patient empowerment in new digital strategy from Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has expanded its new digital appointment service, allowing patients the ability to receive appointment reminders by SMS and to access important details about upcoming appointments directly from their mobile phone.

Trial of powered biopsy device at Clatterbridge leads to “measurable benefits for patients”

Milton Keynes University Hospital goes live with inicio’s new mPage for jaundice

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

Buckinghamshire Healthcare launches new patient portal via NHS App

Hand holding the world

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Go Green, Go Digital week

NHS England has announced the roll-out of an automatic pump for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease, which can deliver drug infusions "around-the-clock" through a cannula inserted under the skin.

Tech to support falls prevention piloted by Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool

Liverpool University Hospitals announces joint chief digital officer role with Liverpool Women’s

A journal article published in The Lancet Digital Health, has set out recommendations to support data infrastructure transformation.

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

University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) has announced a £1.28 million AI upgrade to its radiology training facilities, thanks to funding from NHS England Midlands.

£1.28m AI upgrade to radiology training facilities at University Hospitals of North Midlands

Lewisham and Greenwich on map

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust awards contract for patient portal

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust (RNOH) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) have announced their upcoming collaboration on Epic's EHR

South Tees agrees eight-year extension for EPR and ePMA contract

Northampton General Hospital

Northampton General Hospital announces preferred EPR supplier

Belfast

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust sets date for EPR go-live

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trusts' portable ECG pilot project which "helped protect mental health patients during the COVID-19 pandemic", has played a "key role" in changing national guidance around ECGs.

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS pilot informs national guidance for ECGs in mental health

A virtual "pill school" at Royal Brompton Hospital is helping children and young people to make the transition from liquid medications to tablets.

Virtual “pill school” launched at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals

NHS Dorset is searching for volunteers to join its Digital Public Engagement Group (DPEG), with the aim of helping to develop digital health and care services. 

Functionality updates to Patients Know Best portal at University Hospitals of North Midlands

VR distraction therapy at The Christie helps reduce anxiety for children undergoing radiotherapy.

VR software creates “immersive environment” to help young people with stammer in Barnsley

NHS North West London Community Insights Report highlights emerging trends around communication, access, digital, equality, and more

Royal Devon University Healthcare initiates new patient communications policy

Barking, Havering and Redbridge to launch new patient portal

Sandwell and West Birmingham launch cancer care app

£6.4m investment for Pathology Laboratory Information Management System at North West Anglia NFT

Hillingdon Hospitals NHS goes live with EPR

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

A biomedical engineer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has created 3D heart replicas to allow surgeons to make more informed decisions on surgical interventions for patients with congenital heart defects.

AI trial leads to altered care plans for over 300 cardiac patients in Oxford

NHS England has published the NHS vaccination strategy, highlighting the role of digital services, a national vaccination data record and the NHS app in promoting access, uptake, and delivery.

Digital strategy development and transition plans for new NHS trust in South East

Royal Marsden NHS CIO announces move to Nervecentre

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust (RNOH) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) have announced their upcoming collaboration on Epic's EHR

University Hospitals Birmingham seeks electronic content platform to make data more accessible

Manchester University NHS FT appoints new CDIO

The summary report from the Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust's board of directors has highlighted the importance of risk assessments on digital capacity and financial performance, ahead of delayed dates for the Trust's EPR launch.

Sheffield Health and Social Care goes live with EPR, with NHSE announcing 90 percent EPR adoption across NHS trusts

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has published a contract notice for a neonatal intensive care (NICU) cloud-based electronic patient record system. 

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde publishes contract notice for neonatal EPR

EHR digital project

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

Applications have opened for the latest round of the CW Innovation Horizon Fellowship programme, which encourages staff across Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to share innovative project ideas.

Chelsea and Westminster pilots AI solution for cataract patients

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has expanded its new digital appointment service, allowing patients the ability to receive appointment reminders by SMS and to access important details about upcoming appointments directly from their mobile phone.

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre announces role as early adopter of data professionals framework

Mid and South Essex sets out actions to be taken to deliver digital strategy.

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

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust appoints new CDIO

Bleepa: 87% reduction in referral response times at the Northern Care Alliance