NHS and Healthcare Blogs

Population health management is high on the health agenda with good reason. Its potential to help inform preventative, sustainable care is huge. But how best to harness this potential and make early, tangible progress, is less obvious. Helen Seth, our director of business intelligence and provide...

Primary care is making positive strides when it comes to digitally-enabled healthcare. It’s exciting to hear about successful moves to implement video and online consultations, enable patients to view their records online and the growth of wearables to support self-care. But offering these at sca...

With specialised commissioning growing at a rapid pace and requiring some of the most costly interventions, the reliance on advanced data analysis to understand, monitor and manage care is increasing.

With the deadline by which practices must join a primary care network (PCN) just a day away. Chris Davies, our transformation partner, asks if you are ready for the changes this will bring.

The scale of transformation envisaged in the long term plan is vast and sets significant challenges for those tasked with delivery across the health system, says Wendy Lane, consultancy services director at NHS Arden & GEM.

There is a great deal of willingness to share best practice across the NHS. Strangely, however, this approach hasn’t always translated into adoption at scale, despite a long history of trying a variety of methods to support learning.

The new health secretary, Matt Hancock has not been in post long, but he is already leading in some very positive and interesting directions. Last month we saw ’The Future of Healthcare‘ released with digital solutions fundamental to delivering sustainable healthcare; while this month we had a ti...

A collaborative effort across the NHS has resulted in patients with rare cancers receiving treatment closer to home.

Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) to bowel cancer are a growing burden on society. Bowel cancer is the only cancer that can be fully prevented if its precursors – polyps – are detected early. Even if already developed, the majority of early cancer is truly cur...

For the first time, artificial intelligence techniques can now deliver real-time, engaging, speech transcription and understanding. Ufonia is a digital health company taking advantage of the same technologies to deliver higher value healthcare.