Like many organisations across the NHS, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT) has faced pressures on its emergency department, constraints on bed capacity and patient flow, and challenges with its non-elective care pathway. Without clear insights about patient and ward circumstances during the admissions and transfer processes, patients weren’t […]
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Interview: “If you wait for perfection, you will never do anything” Ian Mackenzie, NHS leader
For our latest interview we sat down for a chat with Ian Mackenzie, an NHS leader with over 35 years of experience in digital healthcare. Ian retired in 2021 but has been holding interim roles since then. Ian’s background and experience in digital healthcare Ian first started working in the […]
NHSE highlights challenges with AI evaluations: potential for bias, adoption site capacity, variation between sites
NHS England has shared guidance on evaluating artificial intelligence projects and technologies with learnings from the ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health and Care Award’, which ran for four years until 2024 and supported the design, development and deployment of “promising” AI technologies. NHSE states how evaluation focused on eight key […]
HTN Now panel discussion: digital integrated care, new models of care, and moving from reactive to proactive
For a HTN Now panel discussion on the topic of digital integrated care we were joined by experts from across the health sector, who discussed topics including approaches to tackling challenges from an ICS perspective; new models of care and pathway transformation; the role of technology in supporting the move […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ strategy to 2030 commits to being “innovation friendly health system”
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GST) has published a new strategy running to 2030, highlighting expectations around the potential offered by the next decade of digital advancements and sharing plans around EPR optimisation, attracting and funding healthcare innovation, and utilising artificial intelligence and and automation responsibly. On the […]
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust announces preferred EPR supplier
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) has announced the preferred supplier for its electronic patient record, to Insight Direct (UK) implementing a Nervecentre solution, subject to contract and approval of full business case. The trust has been investing in its digital infrastructure as part of the EPR programme, with […]
Announcing… the Health Tech Awards 2024 winners!
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 […]
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 […]
