In a speech at Unison’s 2025 National Health Care Conference, Wes Streeting focused on digital leadership in social care, with an aim to train social care leaders to introduce technologies. “We will harness the full potential of technology to transform social care, helping people to live independently in their own […]
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Northern Care Alliance board on digital progress, priorities, and infrastructure challenges
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust’s latest board meetings in January and March, to see what insight they offered on ongoing digital transformation projects, digital priorities, innovations, challenges, and more. Approving NCA’s EPR business readiness and business plan is listed in the trust’s objectives for the year, as part […]
News in brief: Robotic surgery, HIMSS accreditation, patient portals, innovation lab
Here, we take a look at some of the latest health tech news and updates from across the NHS. Imperial College Healthcare launches life sciences collaboration Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has announced a new partnership with ARC West London designed to drive innovation in life sciences and develop the […]
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust goes live with OX.DH virtual consultations
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with OX.DH, a health tech supplier affiliated with the University of Oxford, to introduce a new virtual consultations solution. Somerset FT incorporates acute, community and mental health and disability services across Somerset as well as Symphony Healthcare Services which runs a quarter of GP […]
Interview: X-On Health on the future of the digital front door in primary care
For HTN’s latest interview, we spoke with Julian Coe, managing director at X-on Health, to discuss the future of the digital front door in primary care, including what good looks like, the importance of the user experience and approaches to improving primary care. We discussed complicated vs complex in primary […]
HTN Now panel discussion: Go-live best practices, key learnings and challenges
For a recent HTN Now panel discussion we welcomed experts from across health and care, including Sally Mole, digital programme manager at The Dudley Group NHS FT, Fhezan Ashraf, clinical configuration manager at The Dudley Group NHS FT, Stacey Spence, EPR programme manager at Medway NHS FT and Hayley Grafton, […]
DHSC seeks feedback on emerging ideas for change and NHS App
The Department of Health & Social has opened a call for feedback on emerging ideas for change, as part of the Change NHS initiative launched in October 2024. The NHS App and a single digital care record for patients, are in focus. Following more than 175,000 change idea submissions, a […]
Great Western Hospitals NHS FT introduces patient communication toolkit
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a patient communication toolkit, with the aim to support patients with additional communication needs. The trust highlights the toolkit provides “a diverse collection of pictures and icons” to cover a range of everyday topics, designed to help patients when it comes to explaining […]
North Central London ICB digital diagnostics 5-year strategy focuses on digital workflows, data flows, and the potential for AI
North Central London ICB’s Digital Diagnostics Strategy for 2025 – 2030 outlines plans to upgrade infrastructure, digitise workflows, equip staff with “intuitive tools”, and leverage AI and advanced analytics. The ICB presents a roadmap for delivering digital diagnostics, with focuses for year one including single order comms for pathology and […]
Over £1.7m in funding awarded for tackling workplace barriers for people with poor mental health
SBRI Healthcare and the Health Innovation Network have awarded more than £1.7m to nine digital innovation projects designed to offer workplace support for individuals with poor mental health. The initiative comes as a result of SBRI Healthcare’s Competition 27: Work-related digital innovations for individuals with poor mental health, which saw […]
