NHSX has released a new Digital Clinical Safety Strategy. A joint work from all of NHSX, NHS Digital, and NHS England and NHS Improvement, the document is related to the new NHS Patient Safety Strategy, which was also published recently. As well as sharing the strategy itself and its aims, […]
Other News
CEO Series: Andrew Morgan, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
As part of our HTN Now September 2021 event – where we share live webinar, video and website content of health tech professionals discussing topical issues – we’re also releasing new instalments of our CEO Series. In our latest interview, we chat to Andrew Morgan, Chief Executive Officer at the […]
‘Green Guide for Diagnostic Imaging’ launches
Feature by Canon Medical: Practical advice & guidance curated for radiology departments to help make progressive steps towards the NHS net-zero carbon emissions targets A five-point guide for the UK diagnostic imaging community, providing practical advice to start working towards meeting the aims of the NHS’ net-zero carbon targets by […]
Interview Series: Niamh McKenna, CIO at NHS Resolution shares her leadership learnings
As part of HTN Now September 2021, as well as sharing live webcast sessions from health tech experts and industry voices, we’re also releasing a three-part series formed from interviews with leaders within the NHS. Here, we chat to Niamh McKenna, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at NHS Resolution about how […]
News in brief: Dorset Care Record RPA, South Tees Hospitals, patient document software tender, mental health app launched
Welcome to our latest news in brief! During a busy week where the HTN team is live for HTN Now, there’s still lots happening elsewhere in the world of health tech. In this edition, we share a project using digital workers to perform manual tasks, a new mental health app […]
NHSX sets out plans to develop a National Strategy for AI in Health and Social Care
NHSX has laid out its vision, approach and areas of focus for developing a new National Strategy for AI in Health and Social Care. The NHS AI Lab is currently working on a plan that will outline its ambitions for the ‘development, implementation, scaling and monitoring of AI-driven technologies’ in […]
Video: Ideal Health on ‘Realising What Good Looks Like’ for ICSs
For our second session of HTN Now September 2021, Jonah Aburrow-Jones, Director of Digital Health Maturity, Strategy and Consulting at Ideal Health, stepped into the late morning slot with his presentation on ‘Realising What Good Looks Like’ in Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) – and his views on the latest NHSX […]
New Leeds Centre for HealthTech Innovation announced
The University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) have linked up to launch a new centre for the development of health technology. The Leeds Centre for HealthTech Innovation is one of three initiatives that have been announced to support the development of novel ideas ‘from the point […]
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland updates plans for its £300m Encompass programme
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland has provided an update on its ‘Encompass’ programme, a £300m 10-year work-stream to deliver a new electronic patient record for five trusts. The contract for the programme was signed in June 2020 to implement the Epic electronic patient record, develop its infrastructure and create up […]
Video: Kettering General Hospital opens HTN Now focusing on AI patient flow and bed management
To open HTN Now September 2021, we invited Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the AI and machine learning specialists at Faculty, to raise the curtain on our latest online event with a session on their new AI bed management programme. The project, backed by NHSX, is still in […]
