The latest strategy from University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust lists digital and data as enablers of success with a “new continuous improvement approach” planned to drive large-scale transformation, underpinned by programmes including digital and technology. UHL notes the “positive impact” that digital can have in people’s daily lives and highlights aspirations to “replicate […]

View the optimising patient records in the NHS white paper here > “These are changing times for NHS Trusts, but one challenge has remained consistent: how to best optimise the patient record experience,” Stefan Chetty, Director of Public Sector, Restore Records Management, highlights. Restore Records Management has published a white paper that focuses on a […]

Next-generation socially assistive robots have been successfully tested in a healthcare setting to assist patients, alleviate their anxiety, and relieve pressure on nursing staff as part of a hospital trial co-conducted by researchers from the UK’s National Robotarium in Paris, France. The SPRING (Socially Assistive Robots in Gerontological healthcare) trial developed robots equipped with advanced […]

A team of researchers have identified the benefits of linking whole genome sequencing data to real-world clinical data, to identify changes in cancer DNA that “may be relevant for an individual patient’s care”, potentially helping in the delivery of precision cancer care. The study, published in Nature Medicine, saw analysis of data from over 30 types […]