For our latest interview we spoke to Sam Jackson, Clinical Services Manager for the Virtual Health Hub, and Kezia Marshall, Improvement Project Manager at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Topics of conversation included digital champions, their individual work, challenges, successes, and more. Here’s what they both had to say… Projects […]
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Interview: Luke O’Shea, Director of Innovation and Executive Lead for Sustainability at University College London Hospitals
For our latest interview in our digital sustainability series, we spoke to Luke O’Shea, Director of Innovation and Executive Lead for Sustainability at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We discussed what they are aiming for in their green plan, their digital projects, what has gone well, and more. […]
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 […]
HTN Digital Primary Care: Dr Minal Bakhai and Dominic Vallely on improving the digital journey for patients
A session at HTN Now: Digital Primary Care was led by Dr Minal Bakhai, National Director for Primary Care Transformation at NHS England, along with Dominic Vallely, User Experience Lead at Digital First Primary Care Unit, NHS England. Minal and Dominic joined us to discuss how the digital journey for […]
NICE updates evidence standards framework to include AI and data-driven tech
The National Institute for Health and and Care Excellence (NICE) has updated their evidence standards framework (ESF), working with stakeholders, system partners and thought leaders to ensure that digital health technologies (DHTs) are “clinically effective and offer value to the health and care system”. Originally published in December 2018, the […]
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 […]
NHS England publishes 2022-2023 business plan with focus on digital
NHS England has published its business plan for 2022-2023, setting out their work in responding to pandemic challenges, transforming delivery of health and care through collaborative system working, and using data and digital technologies. To begin, the business plan outlines ten key areas in which improvements will be delivered. Digital will […]
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 […]
Health Tech Trends: what does the future of digital primary care look like in 2, 5 and 10 years?
What will digital primary care look like in two, five and ten years? We posed this question to people from across the healthcare industry to give them the chance to share their thoughts and opinions – read on to find out what they had to say. “The potential for digital […]
Interview: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas on building a digital workforce
For our latest interview, we were joined by Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning at Health Education England (HEE). Henrietta chatted about her work in building a digital workforce, the core skills she believes a needed for digital work, advice she would give to people starting out, and more. Can […]
