NHS trusts need a lot of technology, but they face complex, structural challenges when it comes to procurement, and these tend to work against smaller companies and innovation. The Highland Marketing advisory board met recently...
The NHS is looking for a new chief information officer, and the Highland Marketing advisory board has been considering what should be on his or her ‘to do’ list. Following the merger of NHSX and...
Governments came and went, Budget commitments were made and unmade, a big NHS IT programme was promised but never quite unveiled, there were few software deployments but three, big outages. And through it all, there...
At two meetings, our panel of NHS IT and industry experts discussed health and care funding against a backdrop of political uncertainty. In these circumstances, money for IT programmes is often put into the system...
How are trusts and health tech suppliers going to find the people they need to develop deploy and optimise critical clinical information systems in the future? Highland Marketing’s advisory board invited Paul Rice from Bradford...
Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid has announced a new target to complete the digitisation of the acute sector. The Highland Marketing advisory board discussed the approach being developed by NHS England’s transformation directorate,...
As the Health and Care Bill continues its passage through Parliament, the government has published an integration white paper that does little to clarify how its flagship integrated care system reforms will work. Fortunately, there’s...
Scotland has quietly updated the ambitious digital health and care strategy that it published in 2018, to capture the impact of Covid-19, align with the country’s economic ambitions, and help the NHS recover from the...
To coincide with COP26 in Glasgow, the Highland Marketing advisory board discussed the NHS’ strategy for net zero and how this will impact on health tech. Members agreed with presenter David Newell from Gemserv that...
The Covid-19 pandemic abated, only for the omicron variant to bring it back again. It was all change at the top of the NHS, with Matt Hancock and Sir Simon Stevens leaving the Department of...
