St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group (GESH) has introduced an app called Ask Aunty, as part of its support offering to help newly arrived international nurses. The app has been designed to pair newly arrived international staff with a colleague who can help them settle […]
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Department of Health and Social Care publishes £475k tender for digital skills support in social care
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a tender for a partner organisation to help deliver projects supporting digital skills development of the adult social care (ASC) workforce. The overall aim is to ensure that the workforce “has the confidence and skills to embrace technology and adopt digital […]
NHSE board discusses plans to improve productivity with the NHS to “embrace 21st century tech”
The NHS board meeting last week focused on a number of areas, including productivity in the NHS and the potential of technology to support this; operational actions for the second year of the primary care access recovery plan; and a review of progress in 2023/24 around equality, including achievements around […]
Digital system for comfort checks shown to “improve quality” of end-of-life care at University Hospitals Sussex
At University Hospitals Sussex a digital system has been developed to record “comfort checks” for patients receiving end-of-life care, with 3,000 patients supported over the course of a 12-month study and results demonstrating “colleagues promptly and appropriately responding to symptoms and providing patients with an individualised, person-centred end-of-life care plans”. […]
Scottish Care in the Digital Age outlines delivery plans for 2024/25
The Scottish government has published the latest update to its Care in the Digital Age strategy, covering delivery plans for 2024 to 2025 across digital access, digital services, digital foundations, digital skills, and data. The update outlines progress over the last year on areas such as remote monitoring, the Integrated […]
NHS trusts join national innovation support scheme focusing on testing innovations
NHS trusts have been selected to join the NHS InSites programme, which focuses on testing innovations in real-world settings, using a testing and evaluation model “co-developed by the participating Innovation Sites (InSites)”, along with NHS England, and Mid and South Essex ICS, who host the programme’s management office and coordination […]
ICBs to pilot new ways of optimising primary care and further deliver on the Fuller Stocktake vision
A letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, national director of primary care and community services at NHS England, and Ed Garratt, chief executive of NHS Suffolk and North Essex ICB to integrated care boards, proposes plans to test new ways of working to ‘optimise the general practice operating model’ across urgent and […]
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Digital Vision 2024 sets out initiatives including new shared care record
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB’s ‘Digital Vision 2024’ sets out the organisation’s digital roadmap and digital initiatives, including the introduction of One Care Connected, a new shared care record aiming to link NHS and local government organisations. Alongside this, the ICB shares priorities including the development of a set of digital […]
North Bristol NHS Trust holds ‘green operating day’ including use of tech to minimise carbon footprint
North Bristol NHS Trust has shared insight into a ‘green operating day’ held by the trust’s neurosurgery team at Southmead Hospital which saw a one-day trial run simultaneously across all neurosurgical theatres to explore how sustainably the operating list could be run. As part of their efforts, the team used […]
Panel discussion: supporting the NHS workforce with digital skills and digital careers
For a panel discussion this week on digital careers and digital skills, we were joined by Martyn Perry, acting chief digital information officer at Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT), and James Freed, deputy director at NHS Digital Academy. Martyn and James chatted through topics including supporting the workforce […]
