Diagnostic and assessment centres are being piloted in ten areas as part of NHS England’s drive to catch cancer early and speed up diagnosis for people with cancer. Each of the centres will operate in a different way to ensure they meet the needs of their local communities. However, all […]
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HTN Digital Week launched
HTN is delighted to launch HTN Digital Week, a week to celebrate, share and showcase your work across healthcare technology. Utilising digital channels including webinars / scheduled online seminars, ebooks, opinion pieces, social media, discussions, questions and answers, blogs and videos, HTN Digital Week will provide everyone with an opportunity […]
Health Innovation Manchester awards £100,000 funding to fast track innovative digital healthcare solutions
Health Innovation Manchester has awarded almost £100,000 of funding to three businesses and organisations to help them accelerate their innovative digital healthcare solutions. The Innovation Funds provide financial support to projects that will improve the health and wellbeing of patients and citizens by making the best use of existing and […]
Evidence-based patient-to-clinican app to help support increasing burden of gestational diabetes
Drayson Health, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has received positive results from a study into the safety and effectiveness of GDm-Health™, a digital therapeutic product powered by smart algorithms for the treatment of gestational diabetes. The results were published in […]
Patients in urgent care settings to benefit from electronic prescriptions
NHS Digital has announced the use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in integrated urgent care settings is to be rolled out nationally following a successful pilot. It will mean faster processing of prescriptions enabling out of hours and urgent care services to spend more time treating patients. Patients seeking […]
NHS services in West Midlands trial virtual health assistant app to encourage self-care
NHS services across the West Midlands have announced the results of a trial of a ‘virtual health assistant’ that empowers patients across the region to self-assess in preference to contacting a health service. West Midlands Integrated Urgent Care Alliance has been testing a medical assistant app created by Sensely and Advanced. […]
NEL CSU announces partnership to improve population health
NEL CSU has announced a new partnership with Cerner, OptiMedis-COBIC UK and Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP), to provide a new performance and population health management dashboard for NHS England and Integrated Care Systems (ICS) across the country. Integrated Care Systems merge treatment (traditionally the domain of the NHS) with […]
North West Ambulance Service implements inventory management solution
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) has selected Ingenica Solutions to implement inventory management solution, Ingenica 360. The move is part of the trust’s plans to use innovative technology to secure greater efficiency and productivity gains. Ingenica 360 enables NWAS to track and trace all inventory to the patient […]
NHS Digital funding awarded to projects that help ease delayed transfers of care
NHS Digital has announced the successful organisations bidding for a share of £1.4m to help digitise their assessment, discharge and withdrawal (ADW) notices. The successful local authority-led partnerships are: Dorset, Hackney, Lancashire, Wirral, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire and Rotherham. James Palmer, Programme Head for the Social Care programme at NHS Digital, said: “This […]
The Edinburgh Clinic becomes first private clinic in Scotland to offer pioneering eye surgery
The Edinburgh Clinic, one of Scotland’s leading private day-case hospitals, has become the first Scottish private healthcare facility to offer the CyPass Micro-Stent for glaucoma treatment. One of the most common causes of irreversible blindness, glaucoma affects 2% of Scots aged over 40 and is the name given to a […]
