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, […]
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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 […]
Interview Series: Steven Antrobus, Senior Technical Project Manager for Digital Health Software at The University of Manchester
At HTN we often cover the wide array of apps being rolled-out by forward-thinking NHS trusts and primary care providers. But it’s equally important to go further behind the scenes, to talk to those that help develop and tweak the technologies. So, for this latest instalment in our interview series, […]
Suppliers offered opportunity to develop Health and Social Care Standards Register
The UK Government and NHSX have opened a new opportunity to develop a Health and Social Care Standards Register, to provide a core catalogue of existing standards and supporting materials. The programme aims to ensure there is one place to host the standards that apply to a particular healthcare setting, provider […]
NHS Digital announces new plans for GP data collection service
NHS Digital has announced new plans for the GP Data for Planning and Research programme, a primary care data collection service which will make near-real-time information available to clinicians and researchers. Originally challenged for a planned launch on 1 July 2021, the programme was later pushed back and set to begin […]
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT opens EPR procurement
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust has opened the procurement process for a new electronic patient record (EPR). Set to replace an in-house system developed over 15 years, the trust is seeking a supplier of a new EPR system and the associated maintenance and support services. The trust […]
NHS ORB app ready for user testing
The NHS ORB app is ready for user testing, with a launch to take place across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The user feedback stage forms part of a pilot for a national primary care interface for citizens and individuals to access digital services, and for people and patients to access health […]
CQC outlines registration requirements for online orthodontic providers
The Care Quality Commission (the CQC) has released details of its registration requirements for providers of ‘direct-to-consumer’ orthodontic treatment, also referred to as online or remote orthodontics. Concentrating on these virtual dental services, the CQC said it wanted to “clarify the registration requirements for this type of care”. The reason […]
Digital Health and Care Wales awards contract for clinical data repository
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW), the organisation tasked with driving digital health advancement and innovation in the nation, has awarded a two-year contract to Better for a clinical data repository that will “help to transform care and treatment for patients”. Through its “open-platform approach”, patient records are shared between […]
