NHS England has opened a tender process to procure a federated data platform for the NHS. It is anticipated the contract value will be £360 million for five years, with an option for two 12-month extensions worth £120 million. The platform will be owned and controlled by the NHS, where […]
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£150 million AI and extended reality technologies framework planned
NHS Shared Business Services has published a prior information notice of a planned purchasing framework for artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies. The indicative value of the framework is £150 million over four years from August 2023. NHS Shared Business Services intends to launch a tender process to put in […]
Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care in 2023?
To kick off our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems for 2023, we shared a poll with our audience of health tech professionals to gather their opinions on where the main priorities should lay for digital primary care this year. 106 people have voted since we posted our poll […]
NHS priorities and operational planning guidance 2023/24 sets out digital focus
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 […]
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 […]
