NHS Tayside has released a new Digital Health and Social Care Strategy for 2022-2027, aiming to help people live longer, healthier, and happier lives using digital health technology. The strategy opens with a foreword breaking down the rationale of developing a digital strategy. It explains: “Digital strategy isn’t just about building […]
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CQC publishes report on state of care in 2021/2022
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published their annual assessment entitled ‘The state of health care and adult social care in England 2021/22’. The report explores trends in healthcare, highlights areas for improvement and shares examples of best practice. Here, we will take a look at the role of digital […]
NHS England instruct suppliers to pause plans for Citizens’ Access programme
NHS England has published an update on the Citizens’ Access programme, intended to provide patients with automatic access to their digital medical records, including new entries made to the GP record. The latest go-live date for the programme was 1 November 2022, however NHSE has stated that they recognise that […]
Digital to support care at home and mental health in Scottish Government’s winter overview
The Scottish Government has published a new strategy entitled ‘Heath and social care: winter resilience overview 2022 to 2023’. It sets out the actions planned to support the health and care sector through the winter period, with focus on maintaining a whole system approach. Eight priorities have been set out, […]
Direction for a new NHS England outlined in operating framework
NHS England has published a new framework that sets out how the organisation will operate in the new structure created by the 2022 Health and Care Act, and to outline how the direction at a national level will support integrated care systems (ICS). It focuses on transformation, change, culture, partnership working, […]
Black Country NHS trusts publish joint five-year strategy
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust have worked in collaboration to identify priorities over the next five years. Their joint vision is to “deliver exceptional care together to improve the health and wellbeing of our communities”, with four strategic aims to excel in the delivery of […]
Dr Tamara Everington, CCIO, on Hampshire Hospitals improvement strategy
Welcome back to another podcast episode of HTN Let’s Talk! In this episode we interview Dr Tamara Everington, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Haematology Consultant at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We speak about their improvement framework, what to think about before buying a digital solution, how to measure improvement and […]
Camden and Islington NHS publishes annual report and digital priorities
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has published its annual report for 2021/22, which details its successes over the past year along with continuing ambitions and improvement aims, including its digital strategy. The report set out four key aims to reduce health inequalities, improve outcomes for service users, eliminate unwarranted […]
NHS England publish supporting GPs this winter plan with focus on data and digital
NHS England has outlined plans and actions to support general practice and primary care networks this winter. A letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, National Director, Primary Care and Community Services, sent to GP practices and primary care networks, highlights a series of actions to increase capacity outside of acute trusts, […]
Interview: Chris Mason, CIO at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chris Mason, Chief Information Officer at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH), joined HTN for our latest interview. WUTH is one of the largest and busiest acute NHS trusts in the North West of England, serving a population of more than 320,000. Operating three hospitals at two sites […]
