Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has announced Lincolnshire residents will gain access to video consultations with healthcare professionals through technology platform Q doctor. The partnership means 735,000 people will now have access to community services across the county, virtually. Following a successful pilot the technology has now been extended […]
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Poole Hospital’s ‘virtual’ fracture clinic reduces appointments by 40%
Poole Hospital has gone live with a new virtual fracture clinic using technology from Bluespier. Previously all patients seen at the Trust’s Emergency Departments (ED) with a suspected fracture would have been referred to the hospital fracture clinic. Now, patients in ED have their injury immobilised in a splint or […]
Thousands sign up for online GP service in Birmingham
A partnership between Push Doctor and Urban Health and I3 primary care networks, covering 13 practices and 88,000 patients now enables patients to make a digital appointment with an online GP. A pilot at Halcyon Medical surgery in Central Birmingham has been a roaring success said the partnership, with 34% of […]
Scarborough and York Hospitals picks Patchwork clinical staffing solution
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with Patchwork to trial a new clinical staffing solution for their medical workforce. The technology is set to increase bank fill rates, reduce staffing costs and reduce administrative processes with its solution that instantly connects clinicians to vacant bank shifts through an app, enabling Trusts to […]
IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions partner
IMS MAXIMS and Secure Exchange Solutions have announced a partnership to offer mobile provider-to-provider and provider-to-patient communications to NHS organisations, GP practices and patients. The partnership aims to support NHS organisations move away from outdated technologies and remove paper correspondence within and between organisations and with patients. Shane Tickell, Chief […]
HTN 100: Concentric, Unmasked, EOS Imaging and Agfa
HTN 100 is sponsored by CCube Solutions. To participate and be included in our HTN 100 news in brief every Friday email news@thehtn.co.uk. Welsh health tech start up Concentric secures £350k investment Concentric, a platform which supports patients faced with the possibility of surgery to make shared decisions with their […]
NHSX to mandate health tech standards
NHSX has announced it wants to assemble a world-class team of technical experts to help solve some of the biggest technology challenges in health and care. It will soon begin recruiting a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to design and deliver a new Internet-based technical architecture for all of the NHS […]
NHSX names new CEO, Matthew Gould
NHSX, which will be operational from July, has announced its CEO, Matthew Gould, who will join in the summer. He is currently the Government’s Director General for digital and media policy, previously the Government’s Director for cyber security, and a former ambassador to Israel. Matthew Gould said “Our single goal […]
Mental healthcare provider utilises ePMA to save time
Specialist mental healthcare provider St Andrew’s Healthcare has introduced a new electronic prescribing and medicines administration system (ePMA) system from EMIS Health. The provider has seen a 50% drop in prescription-related errors since rolling out the system and a reduction in nursing time spent administering drugs to patients. The system […]
Great North Care Record teams up with Cerner
The Great North Care Record for the North East and North Cumbria has chosen Cerner to connect patient information across the region’s hospitals, mental health services, social care, GPs and community services and ambulance services. This means all services and their staff will have access to the relevant information at hand, […]
