NHS England/Improvement Transformation Directorate has released a new draft Standards and Interoperability Strategy, and has commissioned The Faculty of Clinical Informatics to support a consultation process seeking feedback and views to help shape the strategy further. The new draft strategy, entitled ‘How Standards Will Support Interoperability,’ aims to ‘improve levels of […]
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NHSE publishes guidance for ICSs to introduce virtual ward model
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance to support all Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) with virtual ward programmes. The guidance, entitled “supporting information for ICS leads: enablers for success: virtual wards including hospital at home” comes in support of NHSEI asking all ICSs to extend or introduce the virtual […]
UK health data survey finds public support for controlled NHS data sharing
Results from a national survey of public opinion on sharing health data to support clinical care and research shows support for controlled NHS data sharing. Through an anonymised online survey that ran from February to September 2020, researchers wanted to understand public opinion on data sharing, including of mental health versus physical […]
NHSE supports new smart watches for patients with Parkinson’s
NHS England is supporting new ‘life-changing’ smart watches for people living with Parkinson’s disease, which could be rolled out to 120,000 people. The Parkinson’s KinetiGraph (PKG), developed by the NHS in Plymouth in collaboration with the University of Plymouth and University Hospitals Plymouth Trust, enables healthcare teams to assess a patient’s condition […]
New elearning on information sharing from Health Education England
A new elearning programme has been released for frontline and administrative health and care staff and their supervisors, to help support the better understanding of the principles of sharing information. Developed by Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) in collaboration with the NHS Transformation Directorate, the programme is […]
NHSE/D/X & HEE merger contract awarded
PA Consulting, an innovation and transformation consultancy, has been awarded a contract to support the preparation of the merger of NHS Digital, NHSX, Health Education England and NHS England. The contract award, published 4 April 2022, will see the consultancy company work on ‘the initial phase of work’ for 6-9 months. […]
Feature: How Malinko is putting community services at the centre of NHS data strategy
As part of our focus on data strategy, HTN spoke to Malinko, to find out about their caseload management system, their partnership with NHS Wales, their goals for the future, and the importance of community health data sets for the NHS. We were joined for a virtual chat by Rob McGovern, Malinko’s […]
Significant rise in telephone appointments in general practice, NHS Digital data highlights
NHS Digital has published data this month on the number of general practice appointments held in February 2022, including the type of appointment. Comparing the total number of appointments with data before the pandemic, it shows over 2.2 million more general practice appointments were held in February 2022 than February 2019. […]
Skin cancer pathway in focus in NHS COVID plan
NHS England has released guidance to be considered as systems seek to tackle their backlog and meet new demand for suspected two-week wait skin cancer referrals, as part of its COVID-19 recovery plan. The guidance details how ‘targeted interventions’ are required, with particular focus on harnessing new technology such as […]
NHS Innovation Accelerator 2022 cohort announced
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) announced the 10 innovators who will be supported to spread their innovations in the NHS over the next three years. The selected innovations range from a solution to support common types of hearing loss in children, digital assessment tools, AI clinical support and a musculoskeletal […]
