The National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care last month published a report to outline their priorities for 2022-2023. Dr Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care, begins the report to reflect on work carried out over the past year in line with the mission of […]
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Good Things Foundation publishes report on investment in digital inclusion
Good Things Foundation has published a report called ‘The economic impact of digital skills and inclusion in the UK’. The report sets out the economic case for interventions to help with digital inclusion, based on analysis by Cebr (Centre for Economics and Business Research). It was commissioned by Good Things […]
Dr Penny Kechagioglou on embedding innovation in modern healthcare
Dr Penny Kechagioglou, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, wrote about embedding innovation in health and care in this blog for HTN. The UK National Health Service is facing significant challenges due to the ageing population, and the higher cost of […]
Call for views opens to tackle inequality in medical devices
A call for evidence has launched this week to gather insights on the potential of bias in medical devices. Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, commissioned the independent review on equity in medical devices, to establish where and how potential ethnic and other unfair biases may […]
Dr Penny Kechagioglou on digitising patient reported outcome measures
Dr Penny Kechagioglou, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, kindly shared her thoughts on digitising patient reported outcome measures in a blog for HTN. The UK digital transformation wave is mainly characterised by the roll-out of electronic health records and is […]
Interview: Ross Fullerton, Chief Digital and Information Officer at BOB ICS
For our Digital ICS event, we spoke to Ross Fullerton, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS). Ross kindly joined us to discuss his experiences in digital work with relation to his ICS, some of the challenges he has faced, and his learnings […]
HTN Digital Primary Care: Dr Osman Bhatti on patient access to GP records
Dr Osman Bhatti, GP and Chief Clinical Information Officer for North East London CCG, joined us at our HTN Digital Primary Care event to discuss patient access to GP records. Osman set out to explore topics including what patient access means for general practice, what practices need to do to […]
£6.7m tender opens for digital maturity assessment
NHS England has opened a new opportunity to procure a supplier to deliver a digital maturity assessment programme. A two year contract worth up to £6.7 million, with an option to extend for a further year, will require a supplier to deliver a baseline and an enhanced assessment of NHS trusts […]
NHSE opens procurement for delivery partner to support frontline digitisation programme
NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has opened a procurement process to partner with a delivery supplier to support its Frontline Digitisation programme. The programme aims to provide national support for locally led digital transformation, with the aim of this procurement to find a delivery partner for the provision of advice, support, expertise […]
HSC Northern Ireland publish digital strategy for 2022-2030
Health and Social Care (HSC) Northern Ireland have published their digital strategy for the next eight years, sharing their vision of “making lives better for the people of Northern Ireland, using digital to transform the way we deliver health, care and wellbeing services.” HSC published the strategy this week and […]
