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Unified Tech Fund

Simplifying funding for digital transformation projects

The Unified Tech Fund prospectus

The Unified Tech Fund (UTF), part of the Who Pays for What strategy, seeks to simplify and consolidate the process for accessing technology funding

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Once you have read the Unified Tech Fund prospectus, you can apply for funding

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Case studies and stories

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How upfront tech funding enables more sustainable digital investments

Ned Hobbs explains why upfront tech funding benefits patients and staff.
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Trusts join forces using Digital Aspirant funding to deliver more joined up patient care

Digital Aspirant funds have been used to upgrade networks and wifi, and purchase new devices which are being deployed over the summer of 2021
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Data to support the recovery of cancer services

Supporting the recovery of cancer services, and their missing patients, long after COVID-19
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Why does a unified tech fund matter?

Kate Warriner explains why a unified tech fund matters.
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NHSX funding strengthens data management system in Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was awarded £80k to improve cyber resilience.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Berkshire Healthcare supporting safer, patient-centred mental health care provision

Through the GDE programme the trust aimed to further accelerate already strong levels of digital maturity
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Upfront tech funding to achieve better value for money

Richard Mitchell explains why upfront tech funding will ensure we design tech solutions that work best for patients and are best value for money.
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Digital Aspirant funding in Rotherham supports local people to stay well and independent

A place-based partnership approach to the Digital Aspirant programme will enable the advancements in digital maturity to benefit across the patient pathway
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Embracing new technology and new ways of working in South Tyneside and Sunderland

Sunderland Royal Hospital became the first in the country to adopt electronic paper free working within the Emergency Department, provoking a cultural change across its extended workforce
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Why we need a unified tech fund for digital spending

Professor Joe Harrison explains why a unified tech fund will help us invest in the best tech for our patients.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Using digital, data and technology to improve the outcomes of patient care in North West London

The drive to introduce a shared Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system for GDE Imperial College Healthcare and its Fast Follower partner, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, was at the heart of the Trust’s approach to the GDE programme.
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Alder Hey’s vision to create the best experience and outcomes for children, young people and families

Supporting Alder Hey’s vision to create the best experience and outcomes for children, young people and families through the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme
Using technology to help reach less connected communities in Lancashire and South Cumbria

Using technology to help reach less connected communities in Lancashire and South Cumbria

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust was nominated to join the GDE programme as a Fast Follower in 2018, partnered with GDE Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Blog posts

Building back better with a new fund for elective recovery tech

Tara Donnelly (Chief Digital Officer, NHSX)
Digitise Connect Transform Unified Tech Fund

The art of the possible: shared learning from the GDE programme

Dermot Ryan (Director of Frontline Digitisation, NHSX)
Digitise Connect Transform Unified Tech Fund

Accelerating integrated health care at The Walton Centre

Dr Sandeep Lakhani (Divisional Director for Neurosurgery, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust), Justin Griffiths (Head of IT, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust)
Digitise Connect Transform Unified Tech Fund
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