With only 21 days until the next HTN Now event in the series, here we highlight some of the sessions we’re hosting through 14-17 June. Last week we made available 2,000 free passes for any NHS employed professional wishing to attend one event or more. To claim your ticket, please […]
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NHS Digital publishes primary care stats on COVID-19 patients for the first time
Statistics about COVID-19 patients in primary care have now been published by NHS Digital, as part of its new ‘Coronavirus as Recorded in Primary Care’ publication. It marks the first time this information – which includes the number of people in England recorded by GPs with either a positive COVID-19 […]
News in brief: Bolton NHS updates on COVID care at home, funding for caretech firm and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust turns to Cylera
It’s that time again to focus on our news round-up from the world of health tech. The past few days have seen plenty of stories related to Mental Health Awareness Week, as well as innovations in maternity, plus plans to combat NHS waiting lists. Meanwhile, at HTN HQ, we’ve launched […]
NHS announces £160m to combat waiting lists and elective care
The NHS has announced £160m will be made available to ‘accelerator sites’ that support elective care, to speed up recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The investment will help develop a blueprint for elective care going forward and NHS England is also seeking to trial new ways of working in a […]
NHS Birmingham and Solihull picks workforce tool for 162 practices
NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group has selected the workforce management solution from Lantum. The day-to-day, cloud based tool will be used as a new multi-disciplinary staff bank across 162 GP practices in the area. The programme has been supported by NHS England funding for Integrated Care Systems to […]
News in brief: HDR UK launches new search tool, NHS COVID cases app marks milestone
AI has been front and centre for many health tech news stories over the past few days – from the announcement of Faculty’s new partnership with the NHS, through to a diagnostic technique being developed for bowel cancer by researchers in Leeds. Here at HTN, we’ve also been recapping recent […]
Faculty announces new programme with the NHS to enhance forecasting
British tech company Faculty has announced a new programme, partnering with NHS England and Improvement to ‘transform’ the health service’s AI decision-making capabilities. Focusing on enhancing AI forecasting, the collaboration aims to focus on data insights underpinning operational decisions and put COVID-19 data learnings into practice to improve care delivery […]
Video: East of England Ambulance Service discusses EPR programme
On the second day of HTN Now April we were joined by Stephen Bromhall, CIO, and Mike Carey, ePCR Programme Manager, from East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. The duo presented a live session to discuss their ECPR programme, following a recent roll-out. Introducing the trust and the area […]
EPR Feature: Medway NHS Foundation Trust (Allscripts Sunrise EPR)
This week we focus on electronic patient record (EPR) systems across health and care through a series of articles to explore approaches, learnings and advice from health tech leaders. HTN spoke with Michael Beckett, Interim Director of IT at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, to find out about his team’s EPR […]
New NHS hospital prescriptions data available for COVID-19 researchers
NHSX and NHS Digital have announced that a new data resource for secondary care prescriptions is now available to COVID-19 researchers. The data collection focuses on medicines that are prescribed and administered in hospitals – providing daily information harvested from electronic prescription and administration systems at secondary care NHS trusts […]
