NHS England has opened a £20 million framework procurement for local systems to deploy digital flexible staff pools to support clinical capacity in primary care. Suppliers who offer a digital solution are now being invited to apply to the framework, initially focusing on the deployment of GPs, to enable practices to post […]
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Digital Health and Care Plan published with focus on EPRs, remote monitoring, patient access and sharing records
A new Plan for Digital Health and Social Care has been published today, supported by £2 billion allocated from the spending review. The plan focuses on the expansion of virtual wards and remote technologies, the national electronic patient records programme, developments to the NHS App, NHS.uk and patients’ access to […]
Northern Care Alliance to assess root cause and lessons learned from IT issues
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed the “IT issues affecting a number of clinical and non-clinical digital IT systems have now been fully resolved.” The Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury and Rochdale Infirmary (run by the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust), and North Manchester […]
Industry View: healthcare experts react to the new health and social care data strategy
In our latest HTN industry view, we sent out a call for comment to explore wider views on the Department of Health and Social Care’s new data strategy entitled ‘Data saves lives: Reshaping health and social care with data’. We received a broad range of replies from healthcare and technology […]
Industry opinion: how many GP clinical system suppliers will there be in five years?
Last week, we shared a poll on LinkedIn and in our newsletter asking: five years from now, how many GP clinical system (core electronic health record) suppliers do you think there will be? Views were split; after three days, 51 percent of respondents voted that they do not expect to […]
Healthcare opinions: what does inclusive leadership mean?
This week we spotted Samantha Allen, Chief Executive (Designate) for North East and North East Cumbria NHS Integrated Care Board, asking the healthcare community what inclusive leadership means to them, we decided to have a look through some of the answers to explore what leadership really means to people in healthcare. […]
News in Brief: Shuri Network launch new fellowship, new app to support cancer patients, breast screening services get modernised and more
Here is our latest news in brief, and yet again, there has been lots going on in the health tech industry this week! At HTN we’re busy working on our two-day online event taking place 20-21 June, focusing on electronic patient records, strategy, transformation and change. The deadline is also […]
South Tyneside CCG trial new approach for managing demand on GP services
An innovative approach to reducing pressure on GP practices has been trialled in South Tyneside as a result of services in the area working collaboratively to explore ways in which pharmacies could alleviate the pressures. GP2Pharmacy involved GP reception teams following a protocol to identify patients with specific conditions who […]
Berkshire Healthcare publishes first Green Plan with a focus on digital and data
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) has published its first Green Plan, outlining its strategy to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2045 in line with the Greener NHS programme. The document, titled ‘Net Zero‘n’Green Berkshire Healthcare’s Green Plan 2022-25 ‘, is described as “a pathway strategy” that “starts our […]
141 healthcare professionals set to judge the Health Tech Awards 2022
HTN is delighted to announce a team of 141 NHS health and care professionals set to support the Health Tech Awards 2022. We wanted to bring together a wide group of people from different organisations, healthcare settings, professions and backgrounds, to judge the awards this year. Find out more about the […]