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) […]
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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 […]
Royal Marsden researchers to trial new referral pathway
Researchers at The Royal Marsden NHS FT have launched a trial to develop a new pathway that aims to speed up diagnosis and reduce anxiety for patients with suspected head and neck cancer. The EVEREST-HN trial launches this month to investigate whether assessing each patient’s risk using a risk stratification tool before they […]
Featured interview: Open Medical’s Director of Innovation Piyush Mahapatra on cloud technology
This September, we’re taking a focus on cloud here at HTN. We spoke to Piyush Mahapatra, Director of Innovation at Open Medical, for a featured interview; Piyush discussed some of the cloud projects he has been involved in, how cloud technology can be used to support new clinical pathways and […]
The Reveal: Health Tech Awards 2022 Finalists
It’s that time of year again – the Health Tech Awards are here to share digital teams, programmes, innovations and health tech suppliers. Over the past few weeks the HTN team has worked with a fantastic team of judges, and we’re now delighted to share with you the finalists in […]
Dr Nicole Atkinson on Nottingham ICS, digital primary care and more
Welcome back to our podcast HTN Let’s Talk! In this episode we interview Dr Nicole Atkinson, the South Notts Place Clinical Lead and NHS Confederation Primary Care Medical Advisor and GP. We talk about her role and career in healthcare, Nottingham ICS, digital primary care and much more. To start […]
Interview: Dr Claire Fuller, Chief Executive Officer at Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership
We recently spoke with Claire Fuller, Chief Executive Officer at Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership, to get her thoughts on digital in primary care, the key skills needed by a digital leader, and her experience with her recent Fuller stocktake. Claire began by introducing herself and her role. I’m […]
University Hospitals Plymouth create virtual reality dome for new urgent and emergency care centre
University Hospitals Plymouth has created a virtual reality dome to provide an experience to view its planned new urgent and emergency care centre as part of the government’s programme to build 40 hospitals by 2030. The new centre aims to improve capacity at Derriford Hospital, with the virtual reality centre […]
Sussex Health and Care remote monitoring evaluation for COVID published
An NHS evaluation has found that remote monitoring provided a “safe and effective” route for managing COVID patients at home. Sussex Health and Care’s Oximetry @ Home service, set up with Inhealthcare for high-risk and clinically vulnerable patients, “minimised contact for positive cases and significantly reduced demand on alternative services”, […]
