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 […]
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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” […]
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 […]
