NHS England has opened a tender process to procure a federated data platform for the NHS. It is anticipated the contract value will be £360 million for five years, with an option for two 12-month extensions worth £120 million. The platform will be owned and controlled by the NHS, where […]
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Wales to invest £7million for national maternity system
The Welsh government has announced £7 million in funding to support the development of a national maternity system. Health Minister Eluned Morgan announced the programme stating “several recent reviews of maternity services in Wales and the UK have called for the creation of a unified digital system” and added that […]
Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care in 2023?
To kick off our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems for 2023, we shared a poll with our audience of health tech professionals to gather their opinions on where the main priorities should lay for digital primary care this year. 106 people have voted since we posted our poll […]
Google researchers evaluate AI language models for clinical application
A group of researchers from Google Research and DeepMind have published an evaluation of an artificial intelligence application used to understand and generate language in a clinical context. As part of the evaluation the team propose a benchmark framework to assess performance of language applications across various parameters. The researchers […]
Industry view: reflections from the health tech community on 2022
With the year drawing to a close, we put out some questions to the healthcare community, exploring reflections on 2022 from a health tech perspective. We asked what digital progress has been made in the NHS in 2022; what teams have achieved; and what are the projects, programmes and strategies […]
Digital strategy from Bolton NHS FT shares tech focus to 2025
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has published its digital strategy for 2022-2025, sharing their ambitions to become a digital trust, with focus on digital integration, care, workforce, infrastructure and estate. Some of the aims set out in the strategy, include: to integrate care to prevent ill health, improve wellbeing and meet […]
£9 million contract awarded to Frontline Digitisation delivery partner
NHS England has awarded a contract valued up to £9 million to a delivery partner to support its Frontline Digitisation programme. PwC LLP has been successful in the tender process, to provide a support offer to the NHS England Transformation Directorate programme, which includes providing advice, expertise and intervention (where required) […]
Industry view: where will tech have the biggest impact within an ICS?
It’s time for the second part of our latest industry view feature, focusing on technology within integrated care systems. In this edition, we pose the question of where, within an ICS, technology will have the biggest impact. Without further ado, here’s what our respondents had to say… Nick Weston, Chief […]
Discussion: Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust on their approach to waitlist validation
We were joined by James Rawlinson, CIO at South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw ICS and Director of Informatics at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, along with Helen Williams, Transformation Lead at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, for a live panel discussion on their approach to validating their waiting lists. On projects […]
Industry view: what is the biggest benefit an ICS will derive from deploying technology?
For our latest industry view piece, we posted two questions to our health tech audience. We’ll be sharing the responses we received in a two-part feature, the first of which focuses on the following question: what is the biggest benefit that an ICS will derive from deploying technology? Here’s what […]
