Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has recently been awarded £5m funding to spearhead the development of digital technology to improve mental health care. The Trust was named as a ‘Global Digital Exemplar’ in a recent announcement in recognition of its status as one of the most advanced […]
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Isle of Man achieves paperless digital milestone
IMMJ’s Systems’ electronic document management system is now integrated with the Medway patient administration and electronic patient record system. The integration is part of a digitisation programme for Noble’s Hospital and the Island’s care services designed to increase efficiency and deliver enhanced patient care, itself a wider part of the […]
Volunteers to help raise awareness of online access service
People visiting their doctors in Fylde and Wyre this week (19-24 June) could get a special demonstration of how to book appointments and order prescriptions online. Volunteers will be on hand at a number of practices across the area to help people get to grips with Patient Access – a […]
NHS Digital launches interactive tool
A new interactive dashboard is set to provide new insight into cervical screening coverage to help GPs and health organisations improve cervical screening rates. It is hoped that the interactive dashboard will help identify areas where screening levels could be improved and encourage work to boost coverage. The dashboard will […]
Medicash Completes £4m minority investment in Now Healthcare Group
Now Healthcare Group (NHG) has announced that it has received a minority investment from leading health cash plan provider Medicash of 4 million GBP. Founded in 2015 by Lee Dentith, NHG provides digital healthcare services through its brands Dr Now, Now GP and Now Pharmacy. This new partnership with Medicash […]
FBD OptimiseRx helps to drive £1.7 million underspend
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG is using patient-specific prescribing decision support from FDB OptimiseRx to support the appropriate use of medicines, and to disseminate local prescribing information and recommendations on medicines choices that has been developed by the Greater Manchester Medicines Management Group (GMMMG). A particular focus of NHS […]
Newham CCG: Increasing patient access with telephone surgeries
UCLPartners and Newham Clinical Commissioning Group are working together to equip primary care staff in the borough with valuable skills in improvement science to support 300,000 patients across 53 GP practices. Using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s model staff at the practice investigated barriers to patient access and reviewed the […]
Silverlink wins new CaptureFertility contract in Aberdeen
Silverlink Software has been successfully awarded a new contract to rollout their next generation fertility solution, CaptureFertility, to the Aberdeen Fertility Centre. The Aberdeen Fertility Centre was founded in 1985 to initially provide donor insemination treatment within the North East of Scotland. The Centre has since grown substantially to provide a […]
Project unveils 25 years of lifestyle changes
A new tool shows how people in England’s smoking, drinking and healthy eating habits have changed over the past 25 years, in a new, easy to understand, format. Statistics on how many of us are overweight, obese or still lighting up cigarettes can now be compared from the early 1990s […]
Patients Know Best awarded national framework
Patients Know Best is a fully secure system which enables patients themselves to organise and share their own personal records with others. For example they can share information not only with clinicians anywhere in the world, but other organisations like social services, or even members of their family. The choice […]
