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 […]
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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” […]
NHSE Chief Commercial Officer “collaboration with suppliers is critical to delivering more value”
Jacqui Rock, Chief Commercial Officer for NHS England, has published a blog on how collaboration with suppliers is “critical to delivering more value and efficiencies for taxpayers”. Highlighting that the NHS procures over £30 billion of goods and services each year from over 80,000 suppliers, she adds that she has […]
NHS Scotland launches national digital platform for health and care
The Scottish government has launched a National Digital Platform for apps and digital services in health and social care. Designed and delivered by NHS Education for Scotland along with partners from across health and social care, it’s said to provide standard infrastructure and components for digital tools to be built on […]
Special report: solutions and case studies supporting digital social care
Last week, new Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay announced the launch of a new £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund, which will aim to support integrated care boards and local authorities to improve capacity. HTN covered the aspects of Barclay’s speech related to digital healthcare here. Following that […]
NHS England CIO recruitment launches
GatenbySanderson has launched a recruitment campaign to find the next Chief Information Officer (CIO) for NHS England. The recruitment is seeking a CIO to “be accountable for the provision of digital technology both for the wider health system and for NHS England itself,” including accountability for a £400m IT and Digital budget. […]
Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay announces launch of new adult social care fund
Today, Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay has delivered a speech at the NHS Providers Conference in Liverpool, covering a number of pertinent topics for the NHS at the present time, including social care, capacity, workforce and access. One of the topics raised in the speech was the launch of […]
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB opens shared care record market engagement
NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board has published a future opportunity notice of its plans to procure a shared care record in 2023. The formal procurement is anticipated to open in March 2023, with the ICB currently finalising the scope and requirements for the contract. The […]
Poll: how many EPR systems will there be in the market by 2027?
What does the future of the EPR market look like in the UK? 183 industry professionals responded to our 48-hour poll to share their view. Here at HTN we wanted to explore what the health tech community thinks the future will look like with regards to the EPR market, so […]
Jeffrey Wood, Deputy Director of ICT at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Welcome back to another episode of HTN Let’s Talk! For this edition of our podcast, we interviewed Jeffrey Wood, Deputy Director of ICT at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. Jeffrey discusses his career, digital programmes across the hospital and ICS, challenges he has faced, how to develop digital across […]
