Liverpool rolls out city-wide telemedicine service to care homes
Immedicare’s telemedicine platform provides care home residents with 24-hour access to clinicians based at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust in Yorkshire.
Infrastructure
Telepsychiatry offered to young people in Gwent to reduce waiting times
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has introduced a programme allowing those with mental health problems to access care through videoconferencing.
Digital Patient
How the UK could power India’s healthcare tech industry
Dr Alex Yeates, medical director of Advanced, was one of the delegates to visit India as part of the recent healthcare trade mission led by the NHS chair. He shares his views on how the UK can share its digital healthcare innovations with other countries.
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Scotland connects ambulances to satellites for better pre-hospital care
Paramedics will be able to access diagnostic tools usually confined to hospitals to improve the prospects of patients on long ambulance journeys.
Clinical Software
Tom’s digital disruptors: app up this winter
‘Tis the season for newspaper headlines about NHS ‘winter pressures’. Thomas Meek looks at some of the apps and other innovations that organisations around the country are using to try and relieve some of the pain.
Digital Patient
West Suffolk telemedicine pilot at risk
West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group has pulled out of a partnership with West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust to pilot a telemedicine service, putting the project at risk.
Digital Patient
Airedale extends reach of telehealth hub
More than 200 care homes will be connected to the telehealth hub at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust this winter.
News
3ML pathfinder programme under review
NHS England is reviewing the struggling pathfinder programme that was supposed to deliver 100,000 telehealth users by the end of this year.
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Trust does op checks by web cam
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is piloting a virtual outpatient clinic for patients in orthopaedics in an effort to increase efficiency.
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Burns project in place ahead of Olympics
A Queen Victoria Hospital telemedicine project for diagnosing burns injuries has been rolled out to three other specialist units in London and the South in time for the Olympics.
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