The Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge has created a new, interactive dashboard which allows local health systems to view the inequalities in the distribution of the general practice workforce, across individual practices and areas. Hosted on the Primary Care Unit website, the dashboard shows data from across all […]
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Humber, Coast & Vale ICS opens £2m tender for single maternity system
Humber, Coast and Vale Integrated Care System (ICS) has opened a £2 million tender to procure a single maternity system. The ICS is looking for a supplier to be in place for April 2022 to deliver a single system to be used across three or four local trusts, including Hull […]
NHSX opens funding applications for digital perioperative pathways
NHSX has opened up applications for digital perioperative pathway support, through a new fund, with the aim of helping Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to streamline services. The Perioperative Care Adoption Fund, part of a wider collaboration between NHSX, NHS England and NHS Improvement, and Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), […]
NHSX funding project to support ICSs with digital MSK pathways
A new funding programme has been launched by NHSX to support Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) that are interested in digitising musculoskeletal (MSK) pathways – either through introducing or scaling up digital innovations. Around £1 million in funding is available in total through the programme, which aims to support ICSs, who […]
Video: Dr Ursula Montgomery keynote on the ‘future of general practice’ at HTN Digital Primary Care
Dr Ursula Montgomery, a GP and Senior Clinical Advisor for Primary Care at NHS England and Improvement, stepped up to deliver the first HTN Digital Primary Care keynote speech on the future of general practice, in our second live talk of the day. After doing a “stock take” of the […]
Video: Dr Minal Bakhai keynote talk from HTN Digital Primary Care
Dr Minal Bakhai, the Clinical Director for Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement, delivered one of the two keynote speeches at HTN Digital Primary Care 2021. Focusing her talk on a ‘digital first primary care’, Dr Bakhai began by asking the audience to “take a step […]
Join Dr Nikki Kanani, Dr Minal Bakhai, Dr Nisha Mehta, Dr Osman Bhatti, innovators and many others, this week for HTN Digital Primary Care 2021
Join us for the first ever HTN Digital Primary Care Conference 2021 on Wednesday, 4th August 2021! The one-day virtual conference kicks off at 8.30am, with an innovation session from communications specialist X-on, followed by our keynote speaker Dr Nikki Kanani, Medical Director for Primary Care for NHS England and […]
NHS Digital commits to new workforce diversity targets
NHS Digital has set itself a number of new targets to improve the diversity of its workforce at all levels, in areas such as tech and data, and particularly in senior roles. According to the organisation, around one in five NHS staff are from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Oxford Health’s draft digital healthcare strategy
Our latest Health Tech Trends Series, sponsored by InterSystems, has focused on NHS trusts’ newest strategies and ideas for implementing and embedding digital technologies. In part one, we examined Wirral University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s five-year plan for the next stage of their journey, before turning to Northern Lincolnshire and […]
Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital aims in Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT’s new strategy
As part of our Health Tech Trends Series 2021, which is supported by InterSystems, HTN in a three-part edition, takes a closer look at new NHS trust strategies set to be implemented across the next five years. A number of organisations have been releasing their plans or draft papers with […]
