The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £700 million in new funding, including £250 million for new technology, £330 million for upgrading facilities, and £120 million for any supporting revenue costs. The funding is planned to be used across 187 hospitals, and 785 schemes, outlined below. Some of […]
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“Let me share why I think this change is important” – NHSD CEO takes to Twitter to discuss the merger
Simon Bolton, the current CEO of NHS Digital, has taken to Twitter to address the reaction to proposed plans that will see the organisation merged into NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI), along with NHSX, as part of a wider set of reforms announced by the UK Government for digital, […]
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 […]
News in Brief: NHSX backs digital back pain pathway, home test for breast cancer patients, mental health videos
This week we’ve covered a range of health tech news, including nine projects being announced to support analytics research into COVID-19, a new tender put out for work on Equality Impact Assessments in innovation, and the publication of the first research paper to use data from the Greater Manchester Care […]
Health Education England launches Population Health Digital Toolkit
Health Education England has launched a new resource to help provide insight and knowledge into population health. Its Population Health Digital Toolkit is aimed at health and care learners to develop their understanding of population health principles, helping them achieve competencies in areas such as population health data, health inequalities, population […]
Humber NHS chosen to pilot EPR mental health programme for NHSX
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has been selected to pilot an NHSX EPR programme across its digital mental health services. Officially called the ‘EPR Innovator Project for Mental Health and Community Trusts’, the project is part of the organisation’s wider Digital Aspirant Plus (DA+) programme, which includes just seven NHS […]
Feature: eConsult explains how digital triage can support the NHS backlog
Feature by eConsult As part of our ‘digital first’ focus this month, eConsult, an online triage and remote consultation provider, tells HTN how digital solutions can help with the NHS recovery and specifically how the use of intelligent digital triage across the NHS can support the growing backlog of patients awaiting […]
New NHSX funding for home care tech projects
NHSX has announced that new funding of up to £500,000 is available for NHS tech projects that support home care. Submissions for round two of the Digital Health Partnership Award, which focuses on technologies to enhance and enable people’s medical care at home, are now open, as of 1 November […]
Video: University Hospital Southampton NHS FT shares its digital strategy and ICS approach
Earlier this month as part of HTN Now, we welcomed Adrian Byrne, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust (UHS) to reveal the organisation’s new digital strategy, and how it relates to its Integrated Care System. Adrian covered the wider goals that UHS has about the ICS landscape, […]
NHS Digital reveals Microsoft Teams roll-out saved 2.9 million hours for NHS staff
A new study by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has found that the roll-out of Microsoft Teams to around 1.3 million NHS users saved over 2.9 million hours of NHS time, according to NHS Digital. The programme’s ability to facilitate video conferencing and virtual meetings, alongside other communications for NHS […]
