Health Tech Awards 2024 Ceremony Welcome to the big reveal of the Health Tech Awards 2024, sponsored by CCube Solutions – at long last, we are delighted to share our winners with you! Firstly, thanks where thanks is due: we’ve had a wonderful cohort of judges helping to review each […]
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB shares plans for £10m digital front door
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB has shared a market engagement prior information notice indicating plans to deliver a digital front door to act as a single entry point for citizens and provide access to a range of products, services and partners supporting the coordination of personalised, centralised and efficient care. In […]
NHSE October board: data improvements, community mental health review, primary care surveys and more
NHS England’s board met last week, with discussion including key statistics for areas of focus within the NHS; plans for data improvements in specific areas; and comments around how the NHS can support the government’s planned shift towards preventative, digital and community-based care. Some of the key stats include how […]
Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative secures £88m in funding for EPR programme
Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative has shared an update on plans to implement a shared EPR across Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, James Paget University Hospitals, and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, with the full business case now approved. The EPR programme is backed by […]
GP Patient Survey 2024 offers key insights into access to GP services and patient experiences
Findings from the GP Patient Survey 2024 run by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England have been published, assessing patient experiences of healthcare services provided by GP practices, including access, making contact with practices, quality of care, experiences of services outside of opening hours, and experiences of NHS dental and pharmacy […]
General election, what does it mean for the NHS: Focus on waiting times, timely diagnosis and treatment, innovation, adoption, modernising, a new ‘Fit for the Future’ fund…
With the results of the 2024 general election handing Labour a majority and placing Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, let’s take a look at what this might mean for the NHS. We previously reported on the highlights of Labour’s manifesto when it came to the national health service, along with […]
NHSE shares update around new GP Connect Update Record functionality
Dr Amanda Doyle, NHS England national director for primary care and community services, has written to GPs and practice managers to clarify information around enhancements to the GP Connect Update Record. The letter references the new enhancement to GP Connect functionality enabling information from secondary and community care, such as […]
Digital Health and Care Wales’ organisational strategy 2024-2030: in focus
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) recently published its organisational strategy for 2024-2030, framed around five key missions: to provide a platform for enabling digital transformation, to deliver high quality digital products and services, to expand the digital health and care record and the use of digital to improve healthcare, […]
Industry view: what does the health tech landscape look like at present?
What does the health tech landscape look like at present? Here at HTN, we sought to gain an understanding of the landscape as it stands now, in July 2024, ahead of the upcoming election and any changes that may bring. We put out a call to comment asking for thoughts […]
Interview: “There’s a lot of desire to see digital make a palpable difference to health outcomes in New Zealand” Ryl Jensen, CEO of Digital Health Association
We sat down for a chat with Ryl Jensen, CEO of the Digital Health Association (DHA), the peak advocacy body for the digital health sector in New Zealand. Ryl described the DHA as not-for-profit “conduit between government and industry” and explained how her team works closely with government to disseminate […]
