Movers and shakers news round-up
The latest roster of appointments in the UK healthcare industry includes movements at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust and NHS Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
Health CIO
CCG praised for use of population health management software
A Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in Berkshire has won an international award for its use of population health management software to identify people who are risk of hospital admission.
Digital Patient
Virtual assistant apps proves successful in the West Midlands
A year after NHS services across the West Midlands began trialling a virtual health assistant app, an alliance of CCGs has said it has seen positive results.
Digital Patient
CCG could face £10.6m additional costs to continue funding GP at Hand
Hammersmith and Fulham CCG could be facing additional costs of more than £10.6 million in order to continue funding Babylon’s GP at Hand practice.
Digital Patient 12
NHS England issues £250k tender for independent evaluation of GP at Hand
NHS England has issued a tender for an independent evaluation of Babylon’s GP at Hand service after the national body lodged a ‘formal objection’ to a significant further roll out of the service.
Digital Patient 7
Movers and shakers news round-up
Our latest industry movers and shakers round-ups sees notable appointments at various healthcare organisations in England.
News 1
All GP practices in north west London sign up to provide online services
All GP practices in north west London have signed up to provide a suite of online services to their patients, allow registered patients to book and cancel appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view their GP records.
Digital Patient 9
Mental health text service for young people launched in Yorkshire
A mental health and wellbeing text service aimed at young people called Buzz Us has been commissioned across North Yorkshire by the NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG.
Digital Patient
Unified system to improve children’s health goes live in South Central
More than 906,000 children’s public health records from the South Central region of England have been consolidated onto one single system.
Shared Records
Orion Health develops integrated digital care record for Doncaster CCG
NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group signs contract with Orion Health to develop integrated digital care record to support older people at home.
Infrastructure