Transformation Directorate

Blog archive

You can now find the latest blogs on the NHS England website - www.england.nhs.uk/blog

Can digital help our elective recovery?

Tara Donnelly, Chief Digital Officer at NHSX reflects on the opportunities for digital solutions to accelerate elective recovery and support new care pathways for patients.The COVID-19 pandemic has h…

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Building the evidence base for digital innovation and capability in adult social care

NHSX recently commissioned Ipsos MORI and the Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University to conduct two related reviews: one on social care technology innovations and one on digital …

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A market for digital social care record solutions

As NHSX launches a Dynamic Purchasing System for digital social care records, Peter Skinner (Assistant Director of Programmes) and Claire Hessey (Programme Manager - Market Management and Standards) …

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How digital eye care referrals will transform care

Claire Roberts, NHSEI clinical lead and optometrist, reflects on an important moment in eye care transformation as NHS regions start to implement referral and image sharing solutions funded by NHSX t…

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Boosting ambulance clinician connectivity to enhance patient care and staff wellbeing

Richard Henderson is the Chief Executive at East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS), the digital lead for the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, and an experienced paramedic.I starte…

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Understanding best practice on patient and public engagement for data partnerships

Last year Understanding Patient Data (UPD) published their ‘Foundations of Fairness’ report which detailed research findings on public attitudes towards health data partnerships. I…

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Giving structure and support to uplift the analytical workforce

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the value and previously untapped potential of data analysts across the system. NHSX, working with partners including the Association of …

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New opportunity to test AI driven COVID-19 models on the largest database of COVID-19 chest images in the UK

Developers of COVID-19 AI technology can now apply to have their model’s performance tested on a national COVID-19 chest X-ray data set. Image courtesy of Cambridge University…

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Aspiring to digital excellence in South Tees

Ian Willis describes South Tees Hospitals' progress through its first year as a Digital Aspirant. First year investment has laid the groundwork for phase two of the trust’s digital transformatio…

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An invitation for data-rich AI problems that could benefit from a skunkworks approach

Giuseppe Sollazzo, Head of Skunkworks at the NHS AI Lab, opens round 3 of the Lab’s problem-finding programme and reveals the selected artificial intelligence projects from the last round. At the end…

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