The NHS has published a document in which it sets out its priorities for 2023/34, along with operational planning guidance to support these priorities. NHS CEO Amanda Pritchard begins by noting that the years ahead are expected to be challenging and as such the planning approach “reflects both our new […]
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CQC publishes revised plan for transformation and tackling health inequalities
Care Quality Commission (CQC) has released a revised approach and plan for transformation, focusing on how they will deliver their strategy and tackle health inequalities. They aim to introduce a new regulatory approach for health and care providers, local authorities and integrated care systems; to establish new regulatory leadership shaping […]
Andy Webster and Georgie Duncan at Leeds Teaching Hospitals on their EHR, criteria led discharge, future plans
Welcome back to another episode of HTN Let’s Talk! For this edition of our podcast, we interviewed Andy Webster (CCIO) and Georgie Duncan (Associate CCIO) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. We discussed the implementation of their electronic health record (EHR), how its gone developing their own, challenges, benefits, future plans and more. […]
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 […]
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 […]
TPP letter to the NHS “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated”
Frank Hester, OBE, founder and CEO of TPP, has taken to social media to share a letter to the NHS on his views of the costs of electronic patient record systems. TPP has commented that “for years, costs for hospital EPRs have been artificially inflated” and “call for a time […]
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 […]
£13.5 million investment into sub-national secure data environment
£13.5 million has been announced in funding for the development of an interoperable network of NHS-owned sub-national secure data environments (SDEs) in a blog by Dr Claire Bloomfield, Deputy Director of Data for Research and Development at NHS Transformation Directorate’s Centre for Improving Data Collaboration. The funding will help support a […]
NHSE Digital Productivity programme shares roadmap for the future
The Digital Productivity programme from NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has shared its delivery plans going forward, along with the key areas of focus over the past year. Robot process automation (RPA) Overall, the programme aims to improve RPA capability across as many NHS services as possible by 2024. Present work […]
Scotland Digital Healthcare publishes 2023 delivery plan
Digital Health and Care Scotland has published a national delivery plan for the year ahead, describing how digital activities are to support health and care services. The plan follows the publication of its strategy ‘Care in the Digital Age’ (October 2021), which focused on the “widespread use of digital solutions” […]
