All Innovation articles – Page 20
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NewsExclusive: Government covid ‘strategy’ aims at ‘10 million tests per day’
The government wants to expand covid-19 testing 30-fold to 10 million tests a day, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: IT & Digital Innovation Award
Winner Focus Games and NHS Partners: FluBee Game The Flu Bee Game is designed to improve vaccination rates by engaging, educating and encouraging staff to get vaccinated. The game presents flu facts, busts vaccine myths and tells players where and how they can get vaccinated in their organisation. The game ...
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HSJ PartnersValuing young lives
In a four-part series, Bluebirdbio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. In this third column, David Taylor, emeritus professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy ...
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NewsNational chiefs considering new cyber security ratings for trusts
NHS trusts could be given ratings for the quality of their cyber security under a project run by NHS Digital and the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsExclusive: NHSX to loosen grip over care record boundaries
Health systems will be given more control over developing shared patient records in their area, after an official review highlighted major barriers to progress, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrusts end Lorenzo use after failed national IT programme
An acute trust in Yorkshire has become the first of its cohort to fully replace its electronic patient record installed under the much-criticised National Programme for IT, with another trust set to follow suit.
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CommentTransformation is needed in NHS governance and regulation
Transforming the culture and architecture of the NHS must be on the government’s agenda for improving patient care and working lives of NHS leaders. By Danny Mortimer.
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HSJ PartnersA bright future for genomics and gene therapy in the UK
In a four-part series, bluebird bio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. In this second column, Jonathan Appleby, the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s chief ...
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HSJ PartnersThe NHS IT challenge is not to go ‘paperless’ but to unlock the value of information
Paper records and other forms of unstructured data contain hugely valuable information. Trusts should be planning to capture and use it to meet covid and ‘reset’ challenges by deploying a modern electronic document management system, says Mike Seel
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NewsNHS to aim for net zero carbon ‘well before’ government deadline
The NHS should be able to achieve net zero carbon emissions much earlier than the target set by the UK government, according to the expert in charge of setting out the NHS’s route to environmental sustainability.
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HSJ PartnersHow AI is easing the mounting pressures on GPs and hospitals?
AI-powered solutions are helping GPs effectively implement pathway guidance and reduce unnecessary referrals to hospitals, writes David Ezra
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HSJ PartnersCovid-19 poses a new challenge for point-of-care manufacturing
The spread of covid-19 outbreaks has led facilities in medical device manufacturing to rigorously anticipate, plan, and innovate. By Ali Burns, managing director of Siemens Healthineers Sudbury, UK manufacturing facility.
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CommentGriffiths: Covid recovery is NHS’ greatest challenge
What is important now is that the size of the problem is recognised, the complexity understood and sufficient time and capacity given to support those doing all they can to put the needs of their patients first. By Marianne Griffiths
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HSJ PartnersRestoring health by embracing the transformative potential of gene therapy
In a four-part series, bluebird bio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. Here in the first column, Nicola Redfern, bluebird bio UK’s General Manager, discusses ...
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HSJ PartnersHow a culture of improvement powered health systems’ response to covid-19
A culture of continuous improvement underpins two health systems, which has enabled them to unlock capacity and energise their workforce in the face of a pandemic
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NewsNational NHS chiefs plan end to ‘messy’ covid tech deal
The NHS does not intend to renew a national contract with its main video platform provider Attend Anywhere and will instead aim to develop a more pluralistic market, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPrior: use of barcodes should be ‘commonplace in the NHS’
The widespread adoption of barcoding by the NHS is needed to meet the challenge posed by the Cumberlege patient safety review, according to NHS England chair Lord David Prior.
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CommentWe must offer patients hope, even if we can't offer timely treatment
With no capacity for any operations other than the urgent and emergency, waiting list growth looms large over patients, writes Polly Dickerson.
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NewsNHS seeks another huge increase in testing capacity
The NHS has been told to increase its covid-19 swab testing capacity again by at least double, HSJ has learned, including via efforts to expand rapid-turnaround tests.
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CommentSweeping aside patient involvement during pandemic was too easy
To deliver a new normal that serves patients we must grab this opportunity to bake patient involvement into new structures, processes and cultures within the NHS, writes Rachel Power