NHS Digital funding awarded to LA digital projects
Local authority and NHS partnerships to share funding worth £1.4m to help digitise their assessment, discharge and withdrawal notices
Adult Social Care
NHS trials virtual health assistant app to encourage self-care
Ask NHS app uses Odyssey clinical decision support technology to relieve pressure on 111, urgent care services and primary care
Mini-connectathon helps Dorset pick shared care record supplier (case study)
Eight health and care organisations and four suppliers used tools from Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, NHS Digital and Endeavor Health to test information sharing at an event
NHS Digital and techUK to address further digital health and social care challenges
Next steps in technology focused partnership outlined
Seven digital government trends to look out for in 2018
Tim Pitts, Managing Partner at Agilisys, highlights seven tech trends he believes will be central to local government digital transformation in 2018
Social workers facing digital information barriers
New research commissioned by NHS Digital has revealed that nearly all (98%) of social workers have difficulty with sharing information digitally
Online social care info on council websites poor, latest report reveals
Councils struggling with poor implementation of social care directories and e-marketplaces
National Data Guardian 2017 report published
Report sets out a clear case for confidential data collected by the NHS and social care services to be properly safeguarded and used appropriately to improve care
NHS Digital makes £1.4m delayed discharge funding available to local authorities
Funding for local authorities and their NHS partners to integrate patient discharge from hospital into local authority social care process
Using technology to help address delayed transfer of care
Chris Wilson, managing director of adam, discusses how technology can be used to address delayed transfer of care
