NHS England’s Director of Digital Technology takes us on a virtual tour of the Digital Zone at Expo 2015: I am driven by my firm belief that we should never stop innovating – that there is always a solution out there, it’s just a matter of honing in on where exactly the problem lies. As […]
The Chairman of the Mental Health Taskforce told the Health and Innovation Expo 2015 conference “we are at the start of a new era for mental health.” As he launched the Mental Health Taskforce Engagement Report at the event in Manchester, Paul Farmer, CEO of charity Mind and Taskforce Chair, said he was delighted to […]
The NHS has the opportunity to become the “go-to place for innovations”. That is the view of Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, who today refuted any suggestion that the health service is slow to embrace or develop innovations, but did concede that ii is often too slow to exploit them. Sir Bruce […]
The NHS England Antibiotic Quality Premium Monitoring Dashboard is produced by the NHS Business Services Authority to support NHS England in monitoring ICS performance in the delivery of the Antibiotic Quality Premium. This dashboard is published monthly and reports on performance with the primary care antibiotic prescribing indicators that are defined in the Quality Premium […]
Leaders of NHS provider organisations in the North joined a panel on the at Health and Innovation Expo 2015 to discuss the issues facing their organisations and what the solutions are or may be – both at present and in the future. Introduced and chaired by Rob Webster, chief executive of NHS Confederation, the panel […]
The willingness of people to adopt and embrace technology offers the health service an opportunity to change to new models of care. Jeroen Tas, the Chief Executive of Health Informatics Solutions and Services at Philips, said that health care needs to move away from being a ‘one-size-fits-all’ industry. He told the Health and Innovation Expo […]
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Simon Stevens today announced a major drive to improve and support the health and wellbeing of 1.3million health service staff. Speaking to a packed hall at the at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015 conference in Manchester, the NHS England Chief Executive set out how NHS organisations will be supported to help their staff stay well. […]
Patient access to records ignited a lively debate at the NHS England Expo conference today. Beverly Bryant, NHS England’s Director of Digital told the audience patient experience had been improved over the past few years by being able to do more on line including booking appointments and patient access to records. And relationships with the […]
A man who spent 25 years using a variety of mental health services co-ordinated the biggest UK gathering of people in secure care to get views on how to improve care. Ian Callaghan, who now works for Rethink Mental Illness, led a session which used voting pads to ask the 120-strong service user audience important […]