NHS Scotland has refreshed its digital strategy, with a renewed focus on digital inclusion being at the heart of its plans. The strategy has been updated in line with a recent refresh of the overall Digital Strategy for Scotland, which details how the country’s services and public can ‘adapt to change’ […]
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Joined Up Care Derbyshire ICS publishes digital and data strategy
Joined Up Care Derbyshire Integrated Care System (ICS), has published its digital and data strategy, outlining its vision and priorities for the region. The strategy has been produced as part of the ICSs ambition to be digital by default, moving from a “traditional reactive system to a proactive approach of working […]
Cambridge University Hospitals signs 5-year deal with AI and data company
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and Sensyne Health, a clinical AI company, have announced a new five-year partnership which will focus on harnessing AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning to ‘drive ethical research into better health care’. The partnership aims to utilise AI to search large de-identified datasets, […]
NHSX publishes reviews on digital skills and technology in adult social care
NHSX has published new reviews into digital skills and technology within the adult social care sector. The reports, which were conducted by Ipsos MORI, the Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University, and Skills for Care, were released last week, alongside the Department of Health and Social Care’s […]
Interview Series: Royal Cornwall Hospitals team talks website accessibility tips
Our latest Interview Series segment talks to not just one health tech professional but a full panel’s worth. The Web Development team at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust recently joined HTN for a virtual chat about the importance of website accessibility. Royal Cornwall Hospitals was ranked first in the web governance platform […]
Industry View: health tech experts react to NHSX/D merger with NHS England
News of plans for NHS Digital and NHSX to merge into NHS England and NHS Improvement, bringing all of the National Healthcare System’s tech, digital and data expertise together under ‘one roof’, has dominated the headlines this week. As well as covering the latest developments, following the release of the […]
James Paget Hospitals’ highlights digital vision
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Trust (JPUH) has released a refreshed clinical strategy for 2021-2026, which includes its digital plan and focus. The trust says that the vision for its revamped strategy is “underpinned by four enabling strategies” identified by the trust through specialty workshops considered to have the most […]
Video: Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital on the art of co-designing & co-creating a modular care record
At our last HTN Now event, Dr Saroj Patel, Chief Digital Innovation Officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH), delivered an insightful live webcast on ‘the goal and art of co-designing and co-creating a modular care record’. Saroj started her live session by sharing the trust’s journey […]
Video: NHSX and NHS Digital explain the e-Referral Service’s role in elective care recovery
For session two of HTN Now November, we were joined by Martin O’Neil, Programme Director for NHSX and Sue Allan, Programme Manager at NHS Digital, to find out more about the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS), as well as how it is currently helping elective care recovery and what improvements will […]
University Hospitals of North Midlands publish analysis used to develop prediction tool
Researchers from the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust and Staffordshire University, have published a new report into their analysis of hospital admission data used to develop a predictive tool. The paper, entitled: ‘A predictive model for identifying patients at risk of delayed transfer of care: a retrospective, cross-sectional […]
