NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board have launched the women’s health app CONNECTPlus to offer advice and guidance to patients regarding women’s wellbeing. Developed by Health and Care Innovations Ltd, the CONNECTPlus app reportedly answers questions about contraception, the menopause and cervical screening, while offering general women’s health advice around pre-conception […]
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Great Western Hospitals NHS FT introduces patient communication toolkit
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a patient communication toolkit, with the aim to support patients with additional communication needs. The trust highlights the toolkit provides “a diverse collection of pictures and icons” to cover a range of everyday topics, designed to help patients when it comes to explaining […]
NHS Gloucestershire ICB exploring continuing healthcare digital system
NHS Gloucestershire ICB has published a prior information notice to explore procuring a continuing healthcare digital system, by opening a preliminary market engagement exercise. The ICB notes a number of key requirements for the system, including the ability to map the continuing care assessment process across all age groups, ongoing […]
Greater Manchester Mental Health awards £572,000 patient engagement portal contract
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract worth £572,000 to DrDoctor for the provision of a patient engagement portal. In a contract award notice published last week, the trust shared details of the contract award, described as the “provision of services for patient engagement tools, consumables, […]
Inspection rating system to launch for the care sector across Wales
Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) is to launch an inspection rating system for care services to help “better understand the quality of care provided” and support informed decisions. The new system launches on 1 April 2025 to evaluate four key areas: well-being; care and support; leadership and management; and the environment, […]
NHS Lanarkshire set to launch digital check-in and triage system in A&E
NHS Lanarkshire is to launch a digital check-in and triage system for patients arriving at its accident and emergency department, to gather key patient information at the point of arrival. Planned to roll-out over the upcoming weeks, first at University Hospital Monklands, and then followed by a phased roll-out to […]
NHS England announces Epic EPR integration with NHS App
At Digital Health Rewired 2025, HTN’s Emily Rodwell, senior writer, attended a panel discussion on the question, ‘can the NHS App finally become the digital front door?’. Talking as part of the digital transformation stage was Professor Joe Harrison, national director of NHS digital channels at NHS England and chief […]
University Hospital Southampton NHS introduces digital outpatient web assistant to patient portal
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a digital outpatient web assistant, designed to “replicate a phone call as much as possible”, forming part of its My Medical Record, patient portal. The virtual assistant aims to “improve the patient journey”, offering a place for patients to “find […]
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals goes live with Yorkshire and Humber Care Record
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest healthcare organisation to implement the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR), as a way to help improve the accessibility of patient information across its services. The programme now involves 13 local NHS organisations and local authorities, providing a […]
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire awarded £230k to support heart failure app
British Heart Foundation has awarded nearly £230k to University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, for their Appitrator app, supporting “personalised medication recommendations”. According to the trust, the funding will help to further develop an algorithm they have created, which records “key patient data” such as blood pressure, heart rate, […]
