The establishment of a ‘Digital Innovation Lab’ at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has given staff space to experiment and see what works, writes Antonia Brown, chief nursing information officer (CNIO) at the trust.
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Agenda for Change staff at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust moved to e-rostering in 2018, but medics were still managing their schedules on spreadsheets – a significant barrier to consistency and efficiency.
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The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has awarded £1.3 million to South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Foundation Trust to fund new research equipment and neurotherapeutics technology.
Working alongside King’s College London,…
Urgent blood samples are being transported by electric drones at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, in a medical delivery service which aims to improve patient care by speeding up testing turnaround times.
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The cyber attack on NHS pathology provider Synnovis caused at least 119 incidents of patient harm, including at least five cases of “moderate” harm, according to figures provided by South East London Integrated Care…
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More than 9,000 automatic letters from hospitals to GPs in Kent were delayed by three weeks due to an error which occurred during an IT upgrade at Kent Community Health Foundation Trust.
The delayed letters,…
As executive digital lead and chief digital information officer (CDIO) of a trust known as the ‘digital desert’, Ed Prosser-Snelling has had a challenge on his hands.
Since the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS…
North East London Cancer Alliance is leading a project to integrate AI into cancer diagnostic pathways, with the aim of reducing the wait time for chest X-ray results for scans with significant findings from…
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North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has extended the rollout of the InterSystems TrakCare health information system to digitise streamline intensive care unit (ICU) admissions processes.
The trust went live with the admissions and…
Emergency departments in three hospitals across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have gone live with Alcidion’s Miya Emergency clinical system.
The solution was rolled out simultaneously at Andover War Memorial Hospital, Basingstoke and North Hampshire…
