Dr Penny Kechagioglou, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, wrote about embedding innovation in health and care in this blog for HTN. The UK National Health Service is facing significant challenges due to the ageing population, and the higher cost of […]
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Interview: Ross Fullerton, Chief Digital and Information Officer at BOB ICS
For our Digital ICS event, we spoke to Ross Fullerton, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS). Ross kindly joined us to discuss his experiences in digital work with relation to his ICS, some of the challenges he has faced, and his learnings […]
Industry view: what would ICS digital success look like in three years?
Earlier this year, we sent out a survey asking what success in digital transformation looks like to a wide range of health and care professionals. When the answers came in, themes included the need for collaborative working, both in terms of culture and with regards to implementation of electronic patient […]
Health Tech Trends: what does the future of digital primary care look like in 2, 5 and 10 years?
What will digital primary care look like in two, five and ten years? We posed this question to people from across the healthcare industry to give them the chance to share their thoughts and opinions – read on to find out what they had to say. “The potential for digital […]
Interview: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas on building a digital workforce
For our latest interview, we were joined by Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Head of Blended Learning at Health Education England (HEE). Henrietta chatted about her work in building a digital workforce, the core skills she believes a needed for digital work, advice she would give to people starting out, and more. Can […]
£6.7m tender opens for digital maturity assessment
NHS England has opened a new opportunity to procure a supplier to deliver a digital maturity assessment programme. A two year contract worth up to £6.7 million, with an option to extend for a further year, will require a supplier to deliver a baseline and an enhanced assessment of NHS trusts […]
Automation Cafe: challenges with robotic process automation
Darren Atkins, Chief Technology Officer for Intelligent Automation at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, has set up a series of live interactive sessions for all professionals working in automation, called the ‘Automation Cafe Live!’ The sessions have been set up in his own time, Darren said, “so that people […]
NHSE opens procurement for delivery partner to support frontline digitisation programme
NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has opened a procurement process to partner with a delivery supplier to support its Frontline Digitisation programme. The programme aims to provide national support for locally led digital transformation, with the aim of this procurement to find a delivery partner for the provision of advice, support, expertise […]
Health Tech Trends: what does good look like for primary care technology?
For our latest Health Tech Trends feature, we’re looking into IT in general practice, exploring the challenges and asking what good looks like for primary care technology. We contacted individuals from across primary care to get their thoughts and received plenty of answers, focusing on key topics such as access, public […]
techUK explores results of NHS EPR usability survey
In 2021 the NHS Transformation Directorate initiated the first national electronic patient record (EPR) usability survey, to gather a complete view of how effectively clinical IT systems are supporting frontline healthcare professionals across the NHS. The NHS partnered with Ethical Healthcare Consulting and KLAS Research to conduct the survey. The […]
