A letter issued by NHS boss, Sir Simon Stevens and Amanda Pritchard, NHS Chief Operating Officer, has explained the third phase of the NHS’s response to COVID-19 and the health service’s priorities which has raised concerns amongst health experts that targets may not be met, a report published today by […]
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Royal Wolverhampton implements tool to predict use of PPE
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has utilised technology from TeleTracking to report on, measure and predict Personal Protective Equipment numbers. The tool allowed the trust to measure the amount of PPE needed day-by-day and week-by-week by front-line staff. It mapped data on the use of PPE, with NHS guidance and modelled it […]
Boots offers people living with cancer free access to video consultations
Boots has announced it will offer a new online consultation service for free to those affected by cancer. Through a video consultation, using the Livi platform, people will be able to speak to a trained healthcare professional for free, a service that would usually cost £39. Boots, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer […]
Feature: exploring benchmarking in healthcare
As part of the HTN Data and Analytics Channel, we spoke with Geoff Bick from Civil Eyes Research. The company uses a range of healthcare datasets to provide information to hospitals, clinicians and managers about clinical performance, quality, efficiency and productivity with the aim of helping to achieve improvements in […]
Morecambe Bay pilots Microsoft mixed reality tech
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT has recently trialed the mixed reality headset, HoloLens 2 from Microsoft, on a respiratory ward during the COVID-19 pandemic. The headsets are supporting staff safely care for patients with coronavirus symptoms, to reduce the need for multiple staff to be in contact with […]
NHS Digital publishes dashboard on referrals and bookings using e-RS
NHS Digital and Public Health England for the first time have published summary data on the number of referrals and bookings made using the NHS e-Referral Service. The dashboard shows weekly data on referrals, bookings and appointment slot issues (where no slots are available for booking) performed through e-RS from […]
Virtual reality tool adds COVID specific training modules
A virtual reality and augmented reality tech provider, built by an NHS trauma surgeon, has added specially designed COVID-19 modules for use on their immersive training platform. NHS staff have been using the immersive technology to enable mass, socially-distant training. It include training from how to use PPE, to how to […]
Opinion: COVID-19 recovery planning, system-level modelling of the demand vs. capacity divide
By Orlando Agrippa, CEO, Draper & Dash. In a matter of weeks, we have catapulted into a typhoon of planning, reconfiguring capacity, building field hospitals, and scrambling for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as we continue to fight one of the deadliest viruses of our time. Panting, as teams keel over from the first wave, they immediately gather themselves and push on to the […]
UK AI company secures COVID-19 pilot across India
A UK based artificial intelligence radiology company is to launch a new pilot with Apollo Radiology International, part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, across India. The hospital group across India will be testing Behold.ai’s ‘instant triage’ AI-based chest X-ray technology to triage suspected COVID-19 patients. The technology is hoped to speed […]
Oxford University spin-out raises £9m for workforce location tool
A hospital workforce AI platform, Navenio, a spin-out of Oxford University has raised £9m in series A funding. The company provides a location-based workforce platform, which can be used to assign tasks to healthcare teams based on their location. Termed Uber for Healthcare, the technology tracks smartphone devices to provide an indoor […]
