NHS Digital has announced £1.4m funding for local authorities and their NHS partners to digitise patient discharge from hospital into local authority social care, to help reduce delayed discharges. Applications are now open for local authorities to integrate their systems with at least one of their NHS partners, to create […]
Other News
Chris Parsons, Valuing Care, asks why isn’t more effort being made to control increasing continuing healthcare (CHC) costs?
The National Audit office study into Continuing Health Care in 2017 illustrates some startling figures on the growing cost of CHC to the NHS. There has been a 16% increase in spending from 2013-14 to 2015-16 and this is due to continue rising. The £3.6bn pa spend in 2016-17 is […]
Medtech Accelerator awards £500k to ground-breaking medical technology projects
Medtech Accelerator, a joint venture with innovation hub Health Enterprise East (HEE), has unveiled its latest round of successfully funded projects, with financial awards totalling nearly half a million pounds. Awards of between £80,000 and £125,000 each were given to four separate medical technology innovations. Launched at the end of […]
Kingsley Manning appointed to the Silverlink Software board
Silverlink Software Ltd has announced the appointment of Kingsley Manning to the company’s board as a non-executive director. Kingsley has worked with and for the NHS and the wider healthcare industry for more than 30 years. He has been particularly involved in the digital agenda, having been Chair of NHS Digital, Executive […]
Pharmacy group saving hours every day
Following a six-week trial in one branch of the Pharmacy group Dean and Smedley earlier this year, ProScript Connect from EMIS Health is now live in the East Midlands-based group’s remaining 10 branches. Dispensing over 90,000 prescription items every month, Dean and Smedley pharmacists say the ability to process prescriptions […]
RYSE announces partnership with DigitalHealth.London to invest in early stage digital health businesses
RYSE has partnered with DigitalHealth.London in a new venture which could pave the way for public-private collaborations in health and care. RYSE through its Early Stage Opportunity Fund, supported by DigitalHealth.London, seeks to support a number of promising early stage digital health businesses within the NHS or other healthcare delivery […]
HTN Newsletter
We have had a great month where we announced the winners of our HTN Awards 2017 and have more recently launched our Elevator Pitch, find out more here. Here we bring you some of the news we covered over the past 4 weeks: 11 innovations join NHS Innovation Accelerator First NHS […]
Applications now open for NHS Digital Academy
Applications have opened for NHS digital leaders of the future to train at the NHS Digital Academy. The Academy, delivered by a partnership of Imperial College, Harvard Medical School and The University of Edinburgh, under the guidance of Chief Executive Rachel Dunscombe, Director of Digital for Salford Royal NHS Foundation […]
Berkshire East CCG Federation latest to offer digital support for diabetes
Changing Health, the service transforming digital education and support for people with Type 2 diabetes, is now available for almost a quarter of a million people with diabetes to rapidly improve their health outcomes. A new partnership between Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Changing Health means the service is […]
Interview Series: Jason Young, Chief Information Officer NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG
Our next quick interview is with Jason Young, CIO at NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG. What technology projects are you working on at the moment? A single domain for GP practices to enable a more mobile workforce, changes to practice websites and trialling online consultations to improve the […]
