Reducing surgical backlogs and harm in a second surge by Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash 5 years, 10 million, burnout, avalanche of harm. These are the words which many of my senior colleagues across health systems have been using as part of their growing concerns as to where healthcare […]
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Cambridge University Hospitals achieves HIMSS Stage 7
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT has achieved the highest international quality standard for the use of technology, data and analytics to support the delivery of inpatient care. CUH is now the first healthcare trust in the UK to achieve ‘Stage 7’, the highest rating of the HIMSS Analytics international Electronic Medical Record […]
Case Study: Online therapy, meeting the challenges of cost, severity and complexity
Read the full case study here. The East London Health & Care Partnership (formerly North East London STP) had the greatest IAPT access rate increase within London as a result of changes in the prevalence rate. Five of their CCGs were ranked in the top six most affected in London. […]
Health Innovation Manchester opens £300k funding and support programme
Health Innovation Manchester has opened applications for the 2020-2021 Momentum Innovation Fund, making £300,000 available to innovations in healthcare. The fund aims to accelerate innovations supporting clinical management post COVID-19 and to support the development of solutions for clinical or remote management of patients leaving hospital care or with long-term conditions. Innovators can […]
Interview Series: Angela Hillery, Joint CEO of Leicestershire Partnership and Northamptonshire Healthcare
Our latest Leadership Series interview is to recognise and celebrate Allied Health Professions (AHPs) this month. We speak with Angela Hillery, Joint CEO of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, who started her career as an AHP and has moved all the way up to be […]
Asthma UK opens £3m+ tech fund
Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation have launched today a new Asthma Technology Fund that aims to support innovative, life changing technology for people with asthma. There are two streams in the programme, the first to support early research and development, the ‘concept stage’, and a second stage to […]
37 NHS staff join Digital Pioneer Fellowship
37 NHS staff have been successful in gaining a place on the third year of the Digital Pioneer Fellowship, supported by DigitalHealth.London. The programme supports NHS staff lead digital transformation projects within their organisations in London and the South East. The 2020/21 cohort of Fellows include eighteen administrative staff (including an […]
Oxford researchers explore machine learning tech for Covid testing
A team of scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Physics are using machine learning technology as part of a diagnostic test, said to identify viruses in less than five minutes. The University is currently working with external advisors to set-up a spinout company and are seeking investment. Their aim is […]
National project to connect 114 prisons to NHS hospitals
NHS England and NHS Improvement have signed a new national agreement with health tech supplier Visionable to provide its video platform to connect hospitals and prisoners. The platform was rolled out initially in March to support one prison and it will now be adopted wider to 114 prisons and young offender institutions, […]
Video: Collaborative working, the new working practice for healthcare
In this session Paul Tsang, Head of Collaboration from Redcentric talks about how the recent rapid adoption of ‘collaboration tools’ such as Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex can be part of your permanent new ways of working and how you can get the most out of these tools and move […]
