When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. The NHS and healthcare organisations are grappling with the challenge of siloed structured data – a predicament where crucial patient information is confined within disparate systems that do not communicate. Segmented data hampers the overall understanding of patient health and […]

A ‘Readiness Dashboard’ has been set up to perform self-automated checks on defibrillators at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, as part of a new project to ensure that the devices are “always ready to be used”. Following work by the medical electronics team to reconfigure the trust’s 155 defibrillators and link […]

People with obesity are more likely to have monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), a benign blood condition that often precedes multiple myeloma, new research has found. Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer of the plasma cells – white blood cells that produce antibodies to fight infection. MGUS, characterised by an abnormal protein produced by […]

NHS England has awarded a contract with a reported value of £98,237.70 to Health Innovation Network (previously AHSN), for a review of the London region’s virtual ward and remote monitoring programme. The review was set to identify key features of “optimal” virtual ward models across clinical and digital domains, with the aim of informing decision-making […]

A ground-breaking study looking into preventing the UK’s leading cause of infant hospitalisation, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), has found a new preventative treatment reduces the requirement for hospital admissions by more than 80%. The study, taking place at Hampshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s (HHFT) Basingstoke and Winchester hospitals alongside other health care providers in Hampshire […]