University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has released its new ‘Outpatient Transformation Strategy’ for 2021-26. Covering the next five years, the document’s title is one of its goals – ‘a hospital without walls’ – with a focus on an ‘integrated future for outpatients’ that has tech and digital […]
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Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, from Health Education England, discusses digital learning and development for the health and social care workforce
For day two of HTN Now September 2021, we welcomed Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning and Digital Literacy at Health Education England. This presentation discussed the future of digital learning and what steps can be taken to help improve digital literacy. Henrietta started her presentation by highlighting three topics […]
Digital Clinical Safety Strategy published by NHSX
NHSX has released a new Digital Clinical Safety Strategy. A joint work from all of NHSX, NHS Digital, and NHS England and NHS Improvement, the document is related to the new NHS Patient Safety Strategy, which was also published recently. As well as sharing the strategy itself and its aims, […]
CEO Series: Janelle Holmes, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Next up in our CEO Series – and as part of our planned content for HTN Now September 2021 – we put the spotlight on Janelle Holmes, Chief Executive Officer at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In this feature we find out how Janelle, formerly a nurse, rose […]
Industry Opinion: health tech experts have their say on NHSX’s ‘What Good Looks Like’
At the end of August, NHSX published its long-awaited ‘What Good Looks Like‘ framework, to provide guidance and support for NHS trusts on their digital transformation journeys. After covering the release of the new guidelines, focusing on the ‘seven measures of success‘ and the new Unified Tech Fund and prospectus […]
What Good Looks Like: NHSX’s seven measures of success
Earlier this week, NHSX published its much-anticipated ‘What Good Looks Like’ framework for NHS leaders, to support organisations with ‘best practice’ guidance on digital transformation. HTN covered the release of the guidance, as well as the simultaneous publication of the ‘Who Pays for What’ strategy and the new Unified Tech […]
Unified Tech Fund and prospectus launched by NHSX
NHSX has released a new Unified Tech Fund and a ‘prospectus’ on the topic, which will act as a guide to help simplify funding for NHS digital transformation projects. The fund itself is expected to bring together “multiple existing pots of national tech funding into a single application”, while the […]
NHSX publishes new digital guidelines on ‘What Good Looks Like’ for NHS trusts
NHSX has launched a new framework called ‘What Good Looks Like’ (WGLL), with the set of fresh guidelines intended to support NHS trusts with digital transformation journeys. The guidance includes calls for patients to be able to digitally access care plans and test results, the need for new ways of […]
NHSX releases report on themes and feedback from digital health innovators
NHSX has published a report that responds to feedback from digital health innovators across the sector, with a focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other barriers that creators, providers and suppliers have faced. The ‘Listening to digital health innovators report 2021’, released on 20 August 2021, was […]
NICE opens consultation on proposed changes to health technology appraisal
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has opened a public consultation on its planned changes for health technology appraisal, following a consultation review into its processes that closed in April 2021. An initial draft health technology evaluations manual has been shared, as well as a survey to seek […]
