Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has successfully expanded digital patient communications using solutions from engagement specialist and Webex company, Healthcare Communications. Since September last year, the programme team has revamped the trust’s patient portal, rolled out waiting list validation and implemented digital letters across outpatient services which were previously managed in paper form by the […]

The British Medical Association (BMA) has shared a “vision to rebuild general practice”, setting out “essential changes that need to happen” in order to achieve sustainability, including moving forward a public health data-driven model and investing in technologies. The BMA places focus on stability, urging the government and NHS England to commit to a minimum […]

The results of routine blood tests could be used to speed up cancer diagnosis among people with stomach pain or bloating, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.  The new study, published in PLOS Medicine, looked at data from more than 400,000 people aged 30 or older in the UK who had visited a GP […]

Researchers have identified a neural ‘fingerprint’ in blind people that could pave the way for new approaches in sight restoration. Neuroscientists say that the part of the brain which receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind. They believe this pattern in the primary visual cortex […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to provide around £8 million for cloud computing storage for UK Biobank, to help ensure that the database “has the cloud infrastructure it needs to securely store and handle” its health data. Described as “a database of in-depth genetic, health and lifestyle information from half a million UK volunteers”, the […]

The NHS and its leaders are facing unprecedented levels of scrutiny on spending. After the bill for hiring temporary frontline workers soared to more than £10bn a year (The Guardian), this is no surprise. Some unscrupulous agencies have been accused of profiteering from the severe staffing challenges across the NHS – with reports of some […]

Healthcare operations software provider Agilio has announced the acquisition of specialist pharmacy e-learning business Mediapharm, supplying a training platform for pharmacy staff that enables managers to enrol staff and track performance. The acquisition marks Agilio’s expansion into the pharmacy sector, and aims to support Mediapharm in scaling its offer as well as “adding new, complementary […]