For our latest HTN Now panel discussion on the topic of building a great digital team, we were joined by panellists including Tom Mann, digital transformation lead at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Penny Kehagiouglou, chief clinical information officer and deputy chief medical officer at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire; Andrew Carter, assistant director of […]

Up to three quarters of Londoners have used online consultation forms, the NHS App and GP surgery websites to access primary care services, according to a new report from the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London and NHS England (London) Digital First. More than 3,000 patients from across London completed an online survey or participated […]

NHS England has published guidance around technology enabled care (TEC) referrals, providing direction on how urgent community response (URC) and TEC provision can be linked, including guiding principles designed to support understanding of how to establish and maintain pathways from TEC providers into UCR, and “gold standard” case studies. The guidance emphasises the need to […]

Gene therapy can restore hearing function in children suffering from hereditary deafness, new research from the US and China has found. The research team found the novel gene therapy to be an effective treatment for patients with a specific form of autosomal recessive deafness. This was the first human clinical trial to administer gene therapy […]

The League of Friends to The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) have funded an advanced diagnostic tool, which will be used in the Pre-Operative Department.  The Dopplex Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) machine is designed to assess blood flow in the leg and detect any abnormalities in the circulatory system. The device, which is […]