Innovation Technology Payment (ITP) – Call for Applications and Guidance document.

Guidance for CCGs on how to submit recommendations for the Estates and Technology Transformation Fund.

The major work programmes mapped out in this Plan are underpinned by an agreed, costed and phased NHS technology plan, building on the recommendations of the Wachter review. It will simplify patient access to care, in the most appropriate location, while supporting people in managing their own health. Specifically, during the coming two years we […]

NHS England’s Estates and Technology Transformation Fund (ETTF) is a multi-million pound investment (revenue and capital funding) in general practice facilities and technology across England (between 2015/16 and 2019/20). It is part of the General Practice Forward View commitment for more modernised buildings and better use of technology to help improve general practices services for […]

This document encourages health and social care commissioners at a local and national level to learn from each other and work together to secure better value for money services and achieve improved outcomes and reduced inequalities for patients, citizens and carers.

In an earlier blog Dr Shera Chok, Clinical Associate in the new care models programme, a GP in Tower Hamlets Together vanguard (@TH2GETHER) and Director of Primary Care, Barts Health NHS Trust discussed the importance of relationships within a clinical community. This time she looks at communications technology, a key facilitator for change. As a […]

Today NHS England and NHS Improvement announce three key appointments to help transform how the NHS uses technology and information. The creation of these roles reflects recommendations in the forthcoming review on the future of NHS information systems by Dr Bob Wachter. Rather than appoint a single chief information and technology officer, consistent with the […]

In the last of our series of blogs for World Continence Week, a Nurse Consultant details how Cornwall was the first to use telehealth to help patients. A few years ago I was talking to a colleague who was working as a clinical lead in telehealth. While she was describing to me how telehealth worked, […]

One of the CEO’s key innovation advisors has said the NHS needs to work more creatively with industry to meet the efficiency challenges facing the healthcare system and improve quality of services. NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) co-founder, Dr Mahiben Maruthappu, told WIRED health the NHS needs to be more flexible and develop new ways of […]

GE3: Hand Hygiene Technology Evidence and Manufacturers for General schemes, which forms part of the 2016/17 Prescribed Specialised Services Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) schemes.