Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System (ICS), Coventry and Warwickshire ICS and Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICS, have joined to deliver shared care records using InterSystems HealthShare®. The programme includes 365 GP practices, hospital trusts, mental health and community trusts, local authorities, an ambulance trust, hospices and a prison service. The […]
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NHS England publish supporting GPs this winter plan with focus on data and digital
NHS England has outlined plans and actions to support general practice and primary care networks this winter. A letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, National Director, Primary Care and Community Services, sent to GP practices and primary care networks, highlights a series of actions to increase capacity outside of acute trusts, […]
Case Study: Mid and South Essex ICS elective recovery programme
Case Study by Insource. Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list across the integrated care system to speed up elective recovery and help drive down the backlogs. The project will give a single view for all clinicians and operational managers across the ICS of exactly who is […]
Alzheimer’s Society opens £4 million innovation challenge
Alzheimer’s Society, Innovate UK and Challenge Works have launched a new £4.34 million funding challenge to support innovations that help people with early-stage dementia to live independently. The programme is calling for global innovations and potential break through technologies that learn from a person living with dementia, employ artificial intelligence and […]
News in Brief: Bolton tackle patient waiting lists, Hampshire introduce skin cancer tech…
It’s time for our latest news-in-brief to catch-up on some of the stories that caught our eye from across the health tech community – keep reading to find out what’s been happening. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust tackle patient waiting lists Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has introduced patient initiated follow-up (PIFU) across […]
University Hospitals Birmingham opens digital dictation market engagement
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has launched a market engagement exercise for a trust-wide digital dictation and speech recognition solution. The trust aims to engage with relevant suppliers at this early stage to judge interest from potential suppliers and support the production of a final specification. Its overall aim is […]
Interview: Chris Mason, CIO at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chris Mason, Chief Information Officer at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH), joined HTN for our latest interview. WUTH is one of the largest and busiest acute NHS trusts in the North West of England, serving a population of more than 320,000. Operating three hospitals at two sites […]
Thérèse Coffey sets out new plan for patients
New Health and Care Secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has set out ‘Our plan for patients’ to build on the NHS winter plan and outline measures across “the priorities that matter most to patients”, including ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists. The plan from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) […]
New partnership set to accelerate detection and diagnosis of health conditions in Greater Manchester
A new strategic partnership between Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), Siemens Healthineers and The University of Manchester (UoM) is set to accelerate Greater Manchester’s capacity to detect and diagnose health conditions disproportionately affecting the city’s population. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise the relationships between the three […]
Derby and Burton NHS choose BridgeHead to retire legacy applications
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) has partnered with BridgeHead Software for the provision of software and services to underpin their application decommissioning programme. The trust plans to centralise its data as part of an ongoing digital transformation project, through which they are standardising their core […]