Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has selected Civica’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) solution. The trust has agreed a five year deal with Civica to provide its EPMA software following the government’s pledge early last year to provide £75 million extra to trusts to save time and reduce errors through electronic medicines management. Karen […]
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NHS Digital appoints new Chief Information Security Officer
NHS Digital has appointed Pete Rose as new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Deputy CEO. Pete Rose, currently at the Home Office as director of enterprise services and deputy chief digital, data and technology officer will join NHS Digital on 4th May 2020. He will be responsible for running all […]
HTN Voice: Healthcare’s AI toxicity problem
By Dr Pritesh Mistry. Pritesh draws upon his experience leading innovation initiatives in primary and secondary care co-developing solutions with clinicians, researchers, industry and patients at St Thomas’ Hospital and Royal College of GPs to provide insights on innovation in healthcare. Read weekly articles on his blog here. The narrative […]
Coventry and Warwickshire secures GDE Fast Follower status
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has successfully secured £3million funding from NHS England and has been confirmed as the latest trust joining the Global Digital Exemplar Fast Follower programme. Simon Gilby, Chief Executive at CWPT said “This is a significant step towards our ambition of harnessing more technology to […]
Industry View Part Two: Better tech is not a ‘nice to have’ but vital to have for the NHS
In this, part two of our feature sponsored by CCube Solutions we asked industry experts for their opinion, reaction and comments on some of the key themes following a speech delivered last week by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock. In the speech Hancock said “better tech is not a ‘nice […]
NHS Digital set for real time exemption checking national roll-out
NHS Digital has announced a real time exemption checking system is to be rolled-out nationally. The system enables pharmacies to immediately check in real time if a patient is eligible for free prescriptions. Alison O’Brien, Head of Exemption Checking Services, NHS Business Services Authority “Customers and pharmacists have told us they […]
Manchester surgeons live stream surgery to thousands across the world
Surgeons at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital have performed live specialist surgery to over 100 trainee doctors at an Italian conference and over 1,000 online. Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeons Felipe Dhawahir-Scala and Niall Patton each performed a Vitreoretinal (VR) procedure on two patients, which was live streamed to an audience […]
Interview Series: Dr William Lumb, Clinical Director, Integrated Services Care Group at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay
In our latest interview we asked Dr William Lumb, a GP in Cumbria and Clinical Lead for Integrated Services Care Group a few questions about their regional record sharing project. The Medical Interoperability Gateway was introduced across the region to provide live information and datasets for health and social care, […]
Specialist health tech agency sponsors #HealthTechToShoutAbout category for the second year
HTN is pleased to welcome Highland Marketing, the specialist health tech agency, as the #HealthTechToShoutAbout category sponsor in the Health Tech Awards 2020, for the second year. The innovative Health Tech Awards 2020, now in the fourth year, celebrate great technology and innovation making a difference across health and care. Each […]
Barts Health starts move to the cloud
Barts Health, has signed a three year agreement to modernise its infrastructure and move its technology to a cloud based service. The agreement has been signed with Capgemini to move the data centre to the cloud, with an aim to free up physical space across the trust, as well as […]
