NHS England and NHS Improvement have today announced that Dr Simon Eccles has been appointed as the new Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care to spearhead NHS use of technology and data to drive improvements in patient care. Dr Eccles is a practicing hospital consultant in Emergency Medicine […]
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Global Digital Exemplar programme extended to ambulance trusts
NHS England has today announced three ambulance trusts will share £10m to help improve patient care by developing into world class digital organisations. South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS), West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS) and North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (NEAS) are the […]
Alder Hey launches children’s hospital app
A new approach to children’s stay in hospital has been launched that will help Alder Hey improve patient care at its facility and across the NHS. Created by Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Charity in partnership with leading digital studio ustwo and designed with the help of […]
Chris Parsons, Valuing Care, asks why isn’t more effort being made to control increasing continuing healthcare (CHC) costs?
The National Audit office study into Continuing Health Care in 2017 illustrates some startling figures on the growing cost of CHC to the NHS. There has been a 16% increase in spending from 2013-14 to 2015-16 and this is due to continue rising. The £3.6bn pa spend in 2016-17 is […]
HTN Newsletter
We have had a great month where we announced the winners of our HTN Awards 2017 and have more recently launched our Elevator Pitch, find out more here. Here we bring you some of the news we covered over the past 4 weeks: 11 innovations join NHS Innovation Accelerator First NHS […]
24/7 healthcare via mobile phone as new digital service launches
babylon health has partnered with NHS GPs to today launch GP at Hand, a free, transformative NHS service offering GP appointments within minutes via smartphone, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. GP at Hand is being led by a group of London NHS GPs […]
Barts Health selected by charity to expand online appointments
Barts Health NHS Trust has been selected by the charity Health Foundation to take part in a programme to share advice across the NHS, following the successful deployment of online patient appointments. The Scaling Up Improvement programme has selected seven projects in the UK to help deploy their health care […]
Future Healthcare 2018 announces partnership with Healthcare UK
Future Healthcare, the International Healthcare Exhibition and Conference taking place on 13-14 March 2018, at Olympia London, has announced its partnership with Healthcare UK, the UK government organisation responsible for promoting the best of the British healthcare sector overseas. Healthcare UK is the joint initiative between the Department of Health, […]
New innovation in digital standards to improve child health information
An innovative way to share important information about a child’s health has been launched today and will support the prevention of childhood illness, improve health and wellbeing and involve parents more closely in their children’s care and development. The information standards will make it possible for children to receive appropriate […]
How the telephone can help achieve the GP Forward View
Providing GPs and patients with more efficient ways of communicating is vital if this ambition is to be realised, argues Paul Bensley of X–on According to The King’s Fund, between 2010-11 and 2014-15, telephone contacts with general practice increased by 62.6%, compared to an increase of 13.3% in face-to-face consultations over the […]
