Eight Minutes a Day, £1bn a Year: The Cost of NHS Digital Friction
The NHS has made real progress in its digital transformation. Across the service, trusts have invested heavily in systems and infrastructure in the name of…
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Unstructured Mail – The Blind Spot in the NHS’s Digital Ambition
The NHS has placed digital-first communication at the heart of its modernisation plans. National policy now positions the NHS App, email and text messaging as…
Change to NHS Payment Mechanisms: Accurately Coded Data will be Needed to Deliver Them
Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the NHS was concerned about productivity and suggested the re-introduction of payment for activity could improve it. While…
Hampshire Emergency Departments Digitise with Alcidion
Emergency departments in three hospitals across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have deployed Miya Emergency from Alcidion, digitising paper processes, saving clinical teams time, automating…
Taking a Collaborative Approach to Delivering Community Diagnostic Centres
The Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) programme was introduced in 2021, and since then, it has enabled 7 million appointments to be delivered. The programme intends…
What do Health Tech Leaders want from the UK General Election Campaign?
As the UK election approaches, whichever party forms the next government will find a health and social care system facing enormous challenges. Highland Marketing asked…
How could a New Urgency to Modernise Clinical Audit Help in the NHS?
NHS teams are under pressure. Could modern digital approaches to clinical audit be a quick win to help relieve just some of the burden? Could…
Why Healthcare Must Embrace Patient-centric Data
What is patient-centric data? In simplest terms, patient-centric data is the specific medical information gathered about an individual patient from different sources to create a…
Ten Digital Priorities for NHS Patient Safety
Patient safety and digital experts give their views on immediate priorities that could make a significant difference in the UK’s NHS. Professor Mike Bewick, England’s…