Public Health Wales (PHW) has launched a new digital and data strategy to enhance health data accessibility, quality, and security, acting as an enabling strategy to deliver its long term public health strategy. The strategy sets out three overarching themes: to build strong foundations, build in alignment and to build […]
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HTN Now: NHSE Blueprinting Team and Derbyshire Community Health Services on electronic job planning and rostering
At HTN Now, we welcomed the NHS England Blueprinting Team and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, to talk about optimising their electronic roster and implementing electronic job planning. We were joined by Paul Charnley, digital lead at Healthy Wirral partners and chair of the Digital Blueprinting Programme; Greg […]
Wales awards £1.4m primary care workforce intelligence system contract
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership has awarded a contract to procure a primary care workforce intelligence system, worth an estimated £1,144,760. The programme aims to form a single integrated solution to manage primary and community care workforce information, the medical performers list, ophthalmic performers list, dental performers list and all Wales pharmacy database […]
What should be the highest priority in the short term for digital integrated care systems?
For our latest poll as part of our Health Tech Trends series, sponsored by InterSystems, we put the following question to our health tech audience via LinkedIn: what do you think should be the highest priority in the short term for digital integrated care systems? We saw 121 people respond […]
Digital priorities from North East London, Somerset, Nottingham and Northamptonshire integrated care systems
For our latest industry view, we asked four representatives from integrated care systems for their thoughts on the digital priorities in their region – and what they are looking forward to in the future with regards to digital in health. Osman Bhatti, GP and chief clinical information officer at North […]
NHS England October board papers share update on digital in maternity care, genomics and more
NHS England has shared the papers from its latest board meeting [5 October], with discussion highlighting the role of digital, data and technology in a number of key areas including tackling health inequalities in caring for people with learning disabilities and autism, accelerating genomics research and improving safety in maternity […]
South West London ICB shares how digital triage improves primary care access
South West London integrated care board has shared how a digital system is being used at a practice in Kingston to triage patients. Holmwood Corner Surgery in Kingston launched an online triage service in May 2022, with an aim to support patients choose the best option that suits them when […]
“Innovators need more information and clarity on CQC’s regulatory approach to innovative practice” CQC report notes
A report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has focused on ‘capturing innovation to accelerate improvement’, setting out CQC’s learnings regarding potential barriers to innovation, how they can be mitigated and current opportunities, along with resources in the forms of guidance and case studies. The project saw CQC engage in […]
Clinical Digital Health Solutions framework opens for clinical and care based digital solutions
The latest Clinical Digital Health Solutions Framework opportunity has opened, with focus on the “next generation clinical digital solutions for the Integrated Health Economy framework”. Worth an estimated value of £2 billion, the framework from the NHS London Procurement Partnership is to open in March 2024, and run to March 2026. It […]
£3 million funding for adult social care projects
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £3 million in funding to support four transformation projects in adult social care. Through the Adult Social Care Technology Fund, four projects have been identified, including a digital fall prevention programme, sensors to monitor a person’s daily habits, virtual care delivery, […]
