A proposal from Northumbria University seeking to establish a “pioneering immersive wellbeing environment for students” with the aim of reducing attrition rates amongst undergraduate students in the fields of health and care has received a grant of £40,000 from NHS England. Containing auditory experiences, videos and images with “advanced features” […]
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Care ‘traffic control’ centres to expand nationwide by December
NHS England’s board meeting in Birmingham today is due to set out a number of measures aiming to help the health service prepare for winter, including the expansion of care ‘traffic control’ centres designed to speed up discharge through coordinated data use. In today’s update, NHSE states that around a […]
“Major issues” with frontline digitisation programme and GP IT Futures programme government projects report
The latest annual report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority has been published, with insights including an update that the previously established deadline of March 2025 for every NHS trust to reach a core level digitisation and capability “appears to be unachievable”. Of the eight […]
HTN Now September 2023
Join us for HTN Now Taking place online 19 September, we’ll be joined by a host of presenters to discuss health tech topics for the now. This event is open to everyone to attend and share thoughts and experiences on different topics in industry. Join us to discuss, discover and […]
HTN Digital ICS
Join us for HTN Digital ICS HTN Digital ICS is back, an online event series to support digital integrated care systems. We bring together health and care teams and suppliers to share innovations that can support digital ICSs, and hear from digital leaders who will discuss how they are tackling some […]
How university-led research is driving the use of AI for diagnosis and screening in conditions including breast cancer and dementia
The University of Aberdeen is working with NHS Grampian on AI breast screening technology; University of Sheffield is working on an AI tool to speed up dementia diagnosis; and Newcastle University’s COLO-DETECT study aims to use AI to detect early signs of colon cancer. The University of Aberdeen recently announced […]
Reduction in internet-enabled therapy sessions from 2021 to 2023
A new statistical release from NHS England regarding NHS Talking Therapies (previously known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies or IAPT) has highlighted that 45,668 internet-enabled therapy sessions took place over the course of April this year, a drop of 19.8 percent from April 2022. In April 2022, NHSE shared […]
National notify a patient service planned for wider roll-out
NHS England’s notify a patient service will begin rolling out this summer across integrated care systems. The centrally-funded service is currently being piloted by some integrated care boards when patients transfer between GP practices. It can be used to send a message to a patient in the NHS App, or by email, […]
HTN Now: Embedding a benefits framework, creating an engaged and positive project culture at North Cumbria Integrated Care
For our latest HTN Now event, we were joined by members of the NHS England Blueprinting team and North Cumbria Integrated Care. The team provided a detailed overview of the Blueprinting process and explored the challenges and successes of embedding a benefits framework and how digital tools can cultivate a […]
Health Tech Awards Judges
Adam Field, Operations Manager/Digital Lead, North Preston Medical Practice Adam Street, Vaccination Service Locality Manager, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Ade Odunlade, Chief Operating Officer & Interim Deputy Chief Executive, Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Adrian Jonas, Chief Analyst for the NW Region, NHSE Aileen Jackson, Head of Mental Health, […]
