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Digital Health on the Road to Damascus!

By John Eaglesham | March 17, 2022

And so to the excellent Digital Health Rewired 2022 event in London this week, a real, live, old-school convention, complete with long-overdue reunions, serendipitous new meetings, expansive arm-waving and enthusiasm, and too much coffee. The best sessions were really outstanding. The panel with Tim Ferris, Matthew Taylor and Frank Hester were particularly engaging. Some of the serious…

Digital Health is for life, not just for COVID

By Frances Cole | March 4, 2022

The pandemic has seen technology support healthcare like never before, however the digital transformation has not always been consistent across all trusts. Therefore, Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, plans for 90% of NHS trusts to adopt electronic patient records by December 2023. “We have undeniably seen brilliant progress, but this progress hasn’t always been consistent across…

Self-refer for Antenatal Physiotherapy

By Frances Cole | January 28, 2022

ADI Health were joined by Lizzie Livesley, a Clinical specialist physiotherapist in pelvic health, at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, who presented how MyPathway and Sheffield have worked together to digitise the self-referral of their antenatal physiotherapy service. Historically in Sheffield, pregnant women accessed women’s health physiotherapy team (WHPT) via a midwife, GP or Obstetric Consultant using…

NHS priorities for 2022

By Frances Cole | January 5, 2022

On Christmas eve NHS England published its 2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance, highlighting its 10 priorities for the year ahead. NHS priorities Invest in our workforce Respond to COVID-19 ever more effectively Deliver significantly more elective care to tackle the elective backlog Improve the responsiveness of urgent and emergency care (UEC) and build community…

Supporting people at home – funding opportunities

By Frances Cole | November 19, 2021

The second phase of the Digital Health Partnership Award is now open, giving NHS organisations in England another chance to bid for funding to help scale digital products and services that enable people to remotely monitor their health and care. Following a successful first round of the funding, NHSX is once again looking to support a number…

Healthy planet, healthy people

By Frances Cole | November 4, 2021

Over the next two weeks, the world will unite to tackle climate change for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). The BMJ held a panel session “Net-Zero Healthcare: working together for a healthier future“. Lord David Prior, chair of NHS England joined the panel, along with Dame Emma Walmsley, CEO of…

ADI Health can help with your Digital Maternity Fund

By Frances Cole | November 1, 2021

The Digital Maternity fund (part of the Unified Tech Fund) is now open for applications from: Local Maternity Systems (LMNS) Individual NHS trusts or combined LMNS or an individual NHS trust in partnership with either ICSs, CCGs or regional digital leads Applications close on 15th November, we understand time is limited and therefore we want…

Can our NHS get to net zero?

By Frances Cole | October 25, 2021

Climate change is a key issue within today’s society, and it poses a major threat to our planet. An overlooked issue is that the climate emergency is also a health emergency. Climate change has direct and immediate consequences on our health and if we do not act to make a change, it will have severe…

Don’t miss out on funding opportunities

By Frances Cole | October 18, 2021

ADI Health can help plug your knowledge gaps! As part of the NHS Planning Guidance issues on Sept 30th, it was announced that a £250m Elective Recovery Technology Fund (ETRF) had been established to help implement digital solutions that will make a real difference to elective recovery.  It is part of the ‘Targeted Investment Fund’…

The digital revolution can support waiting lists!

By Frances Cole | October 18, 2021

ADI Health hosted a webinar, where we discussed how the digital and technological revolution is helping to improve hospital waiting lists. Mike Farrar, Independent Management Consultant (former Chief Executive of NHS Confederation, and Northwest and West Yorkshire Strategic Health Authorities) led the conversation with a general background of the NHS backlog. Jill Lomas, MSK Programme…