All Innovation articles – Page 33
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NewsExclusive: Airbnb style company bids to place NHS patients in spare rooms
Members of the public with no care experience are being offered up to £1,000 a month to rent spare rooms to patients after they are discharged from hospital, under an Airbnb style model to be piloted by the NHS.
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CommentRestricted visiting hours are harming dementia patients – it's time for a rethink
Dementia sufferers see the best results when professional carers work in partnership with the patient’s family and friends. Restricted visiting makes that impossible, writes Julia Jones
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NewsNew scrutiny body to be 'voice of clinicians' in NHS procurement
Products bought for NHS trusts are set to be subject to greater scrutiny for clinical value as part of a major overhaul of NHS procurement.
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CommentWho wants a dying app? Is 'digital' the answer to improved healthcare experience?
GE Healthcare Partners’ Tim O’Hanlon considers ways technology solutions can help clinicians and patients alike
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NewsNHSI reveals nationwide pathology network plan
NHS Improvement has outlined plans to create 29 pathology networks across England in a bid to make nine per cent savings as part of work to implement recommendations set out by Lord Carter.
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NewsA&E scorecard plan replaced by patient flow dashboard
NHS Improvement has dropped plans to rank trusts on an accident and emergency “scorecard” and instead launched a performance data “dashboard” to help trusts better identify patient flow bottlenecks and share best practice.
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News'Accelerated' access to NHS patient data for private firms
Ministers have been urged to set out plans for a new national patient data sharing scheme to give researchers, including private companies, faster access to “de-identified” patient data from millions of records.
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NewsRegulator shifts costs of 'hugely successful' efficiency tool to trusts
NHS trusts will be asked to partly fund a price comparison tool that helps deliver savings in procurement, HSJ has learned.
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CommentA systems approach to leadership makes things happen
Simon Potts on how to develop potential leaders by growing staff operating at a local level to have a broader system based perspective and ownership
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NewsVanguard launching first bed management system across trusts
The country’s only mental health vanguard is preparing to launch the first bed management system across multiple trusts, to halve the number of patients being sent out of area.
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CommentTurbo charging AHSNs to spread health innovations
Liz Mear on how AHSNs will leverage new funding to locally assess the benefits of new technologies and support NHS uptake of those that deliver real benefits to patients
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CommentClinician use of WhatsApp is a ticking time bomb
Clinical teams are increasingly using WhatsApp to communicate amongst themselves but the tool is not safe in terms of data security and is ineffective in managing clinical workflow, warn Dr Harry Claireaux and colleagues
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NewsExtra £86m to fund NHS technology and innovation
The government has announced an extra £86m to boost uptake of technology and innovation in the NHS, including £35m to be paid directly to small and medium sized enterprises.
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CommentMaximising innovation through venture management
Dave Behringer on venture management as a multidisciplinary approach that consists of specific competences for monetising, derisking and accelerating innovation
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CommentInnovation nation: seize this chance to make the NHS even better
The Innovation and Technology Tariff means there is now nothing holding us back from nurturing great ideas in the health service, says Tara Donnelly
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CommentNew care models need the right organisational delivery model
New organisational forms, planned and developed locally, will help to make integrated care the norm
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News'Amazon style' NHS procurement platform delayed
New “Amazon style” online marketplace still being developed Platform was supposed to go live this month but now pushed to autumn The implementation of a new platform intended to save millions of pounds from procurement spending has been delayed, HSJ has learned.
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AHSN bidding for national procurement contract
An academic health science network is bidding for a multimillion pound Department of Health procurement contract, HSJ understands.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe three big themes NICE conference will tackle over two days
With innovation, access, and transformation being the core themes, the NICE Annual Conference will discuss the big challenges facing healthcare
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CommentE-cigarettes have the power to radically change health outcomes
Ignore the shock headlines – vaping has great potential for good, while tobacco remains the real enemy, says Jim McManus