Digital

Winter planning puts a new focus on virtual wards

Jill Ireland (pictured), chief executive and clinical director of HomeLink Healthcare, welcomes NHS England’s early guidance on creating additional capacity and resilience this winter

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Technology - the key to reducing missed appointments and cancellations

With nearly 15 million medical appointments being missed every year, we ask can technology help to put patients at ease and reduce the number of di...

Scanning for safety - the rise of RFID in healthcare

Exploring how RFID technology is supporting hospitals to improve patient outcomes and drive efficiencies

Why joining up health and social care is crucial to digital transformation

BBH speaks to Alex Nash and Martin Lowthian of Access HSC about why local authorities and the NHS need to pool their digital resources to meet the...

Why mobilised data is the most-valuable tool in healthcare

Dr Martin Farrier, chief clinical information officer at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, reveals why data is...

Beating the burnout

Five ways technology can reduce healthcare worker stress

Landmark partnership to improve Scotland’s health

Collaboration will drive new patient pathways and adoption of digital technologies to enabler earlier diagnosis and treatment

How the evolution of IT infrastructures supports healthcare

Alan Hayward, sales and marketing manager at SEH Technology, explores how modern network infrastructures are opening up opportunities for healthcar...

Building Better Healthcare Awards 2021 now open for entries

Today sees the opening of the 2021 awards which will honour the very best of the industry

Comment: Business transformation in healthcare

Lindsay Lucas, chief executive of Software Solved, reveals that, while digital transformation is crucial to the future of the NHS, it should not be...

New Prime Minister names Thérèse Coffey as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions says top priorities are 'A, B, C, D – ambulances, backlogs, care, and doctors and dentists'

Digital tools in the NHS - do the rewards outweigh the risks?

With more than 350,000 digital health apps on the market, and an average of 250 new solutions released every day, Ross O’Brien, managing director f...

Matthew Gould: September is only the first chapter for shared care records

The chief executive of NHSX told delegates to the IHSCM’s Integrated Care Conference what to expect as shared care records become mandatory in 2021...

How health coaching can improve patient health and reduce pressure on services

Creenagh Williamson, chief nursing and operating officer at HN, discusses how the health service needs to focus on prevention-based healthcare, suc...

Efficient information exchange is key to ICS success

Integrated Care Systems (ICS) are at the heart of the NHS vision for joined-up service provision and cost-effective patient care. But how can these...

Designing emergency and urgent care services around users

New programme launched to understand users’ views on NHS emergency and urgent care services

The future role of automation

Following the recent news that the NHS is collaborating with robotic automation leader, Automata, to accelerate automation in laboratories, Peter B...