NHS Digital has published a new dashboard that shows the total number of COVID-19 symptoms reported through NHS Pathways triages through 111 and 999, and online assessments in 111 online. NHS Digital said the data is based on potential COVID-19 symptoms reported and is not a count of people, where a […]
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NHSX confirms successful primary care tech suppliers across 5 lots
NHSX has confirmed the successful suppliers available through the emergency Dynamic Purchasing System to support providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Only some suppliers were successful for the rapid procurement process, which includes systems for triage and online video consultations. The successful suppliers can now be called off immediately by commissioners […]
NHS Nightingale London to use Cerner
Cerner Millennium will be used at the new NHS Nightingale hospital in London, the 4,000 capacity bed temporary hospital to support the coronavirus pandemic. The Board of Barts Health NHS Trust will host NHS Nightingale, taking on ‘formal legal responsibility for the operation and governance’ of the new hospital. The hospital […]
EMIS, Uni of Oxford and RCGP launch COVID-19 GP data research initiative
A new research programme has been launched seeking GP practices to contribute patient data to help develop a deeper understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic in general practice. The Nuffield Department of Primary Care at the University of Oxford and the Royal College of General Practitioners are working with primary care […]
Video: Advice for the development and sale of your innovation into the NHS
Last month we caught up with Clinical Entrepreneur Philip Alton. He’s the founder of two early stage health tech startups Senti and Lister. During our catch-up we discussed some of the challenges he has faced, and the learnings and advice he has for those developing innovations with a view to selling […]
NHS Apps library sees jump in visits and mental health research survey launched
The NHS Apps Library, containing over 70 approved health apps, has seen unique visits to the website jump from 22,000 per week to 52,000 per week in March.Mental health apps in the month were the most searched for category, with an average of 6 visits per minute. Clearly, government-imposed self-isolating […]
Video: Paul Charnley, Director of IT and Information, Wirral University Teaching Hospital
In January, as part of HTN Digital Week, we heard from Paul Charnley, Director of IT and Information at Wirral University Teaching Hospital on population health management in the Wirral region. In this webinar Paul discusses the journey and experience that the Wirral team have been on as they have worked to […]
Trusts adopt COVID-19 impact assessment tool and new mental health module launched
The COVID-19 impact assessment tool launched just 2 weeks ago has been utilised by trusts across the country to support live hospital planning and demand assessment. The company behind the tool, Draper & Dash, developed the system to allow trusts to view and analyse national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data, […]
HTN COVID-19 Webinar Learning Series
HTN is pleased to today launch a new Health Tech Webinar Learning Series to support sharing information and learnings on the role of technology to support the current pandemic. We invite you to attend our first webinar in the series on Wednesday 1st April at 1:30 focusing on population wide […]
Babylon launches COVID-19 care assistant
Babylon Health has launched a new digital care assistant to support lower-risk patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The care assistant has been launched to support people with questions or concerns, and for those that are self-isolating as part of treatment. The company said it hopes the app supports lower-risk patients, […]
