The South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub has announced a three-year partnership with Google aiming to bring investment in the region’s health tech research and training, with a focus on tackling inequalities and driving economic growth. The first project to be borne from the partnership will be the PUMAS study, which […]
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NHS Supply Chain launches Medical Technology Dynamic Purchasing System to “accelerate new innovation products into the NHS”
NHS Supply Chain has announced the launch of its new Medical Technology Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for innovative products, intended to support public sector organisations in accessing goods and services from SMEs who may face barriers when tendering to supply NHS trusts. The open market solution aims to streamline the […]
Bolton NHS FT pilots animated videos to help patients understand breast cancer treatment
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has announced the launch of a series of animated videos at Royal Bolton Hospital’s Breast Unit, to provide patients with information surrounding breast cancer treatment, and help boost understanding prior to consent. In a twelve-month pilot funded by Our Bolton NHS Charity, patients will be provided […]
Feature: insights and best practice in navigating digital transformation
Content by Kodak Alaris In January, Graham Etherington, solutions sales director at Kodak Alaris participated in a panel discussion with Rob Birkett, CDIO at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), and Dr Paul Wright, GP and deputy clinical director/IT clinical lead at NHS Greater Manchester and CCIO at Manchester […]
Feature: “Systems are changing all the time”, BridgeHead Software’s John McCann on tackling legacy systems
We sat down with BridgeHead Software’s vice president of global marketing, John McCann, for a chat on legacy systems – from the different kinds of legacy applications to the challenges they pose and BridgeHead’s solution for tackling those challenges. What are legacy applications and why are they a problem? John […]
SBRI Healthcare awards £4.9m in innovation funding across learning disability and maternity care
SBRI Healthcare, in collaboration with partners including the Health Innovation Network, has awarded almost £5 million in funding for innovations across learning disability and maternity care, with five innovations for maternity care receiving a portion of £2.5 million and a further five innovations awarded a share of £2.4 million for work […]
South West London ICB shares findings and recommendations from digital otoscopy pilot
Findings from a pilot project involving utilisation of a device to perform digital otoscopy have been published by South West London (SWL) ICB, with the report highlighting positive staff and patient responses; nearly 90 percent of patients being seen in less than four weeks; and cost savings of over £250,000 over […]
Virtual reality used to support sepsis identification at Great Western Hospitals
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shared how virtual reality (VR) technology is being utilised to help staff and students identify signs of sepsis, with the VR exposing users to a series of immersive simulations relating to sepsis, asthma and anaphylaxis which the trust says is ‘helping to upskill” […]
EMIS announces active rollout to begin for EMIS-X functionality
EMIS has announced the start of an “active roll out” of its cloud-based platform EMIS-X, marking what EMIS is calling the first step on a larger journey to migrate all services and software to the cloud. The company noted that functionality will be “added gradually” and practices can “adopt new features […]
£1.99m contract awarded for technical services to support NHS Digital Staff Passport development
NHS England has awarded an interim contract with an estimated value of £1,990,000 to SiteKit Applications for technical services to support development of the Digital Staff Passport, with the appointment aiming to bring on board a “capable and competent supplier” to support with project management, technical application development, development operations, […]
