Resilient health systems
By Dr Bishoy Dimitri, emergency medicine clinician and CCIO, Dedalus A colleague of mine once broke his foot cycling in a European country recently. He was asked his name, his date of birth and why he had come in - once. Once. In the NHS, almost every clinical interaction in the emergency setting begins with [...]
Healthcare consultancy CF has won two MCA Awards for projects on chronic kidney disease and long-term NHS planning in South West London. The company received the Best Use of Thought Leadership award for its work with Boehringer Ingelheim and the Strategy award for its work with NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB). The [...]
The EU has announced €169m to strengthen Africa’s health systems ahead of the World Health Summit in Berlin. The investments, announced by the European Commission and EU member states, aim to support health sovereignty, health security and equitable access to health products and services. They contribute to the African Union-EU Health Partnership and the EU's [...]
The risk of plague reaching and spreading across the UK is very low, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said, after reports concerning a Russian laboratory worker. The worker was employed at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk. Russia’s consumer welfare service said the “sanitary-epidemiological situation” in [...]
By Paul Colebrook, Culligan UK Healthcare estates teams do not need to be told that hydration matters. They already understand the role reliable access to safe, high-quality drinking water plays in patient comfort and recovery, staff wellbeing, infection prevention and the wider experience of a healthcare environment. The difficulty is rarely one of intent. More [...]
NHS restructuring is undermining the health service's capacity to adopt digital innovation, a think tank has warned, leaving suppliers unsure who to deal with.
While much of the procurement efficiency debate focuses on negotiating better supplier contracts, the real obstacle lies elsewhere and that’s visibility, says Tony Armitage, data practice manager at Digital Modus. As part of the NHS 10-Year Plan the Government tasked organisations with delivering £1 billion in procurement efficiencies but identifying where those savings exist is [...]
Rail stations across the Netherlands have been fitted with modern defibrillators, creating a time-critical lifeline for passengers who suffer sudden cardiac arrests, and for surrounding communities. Across the Netherlands, an enhanced emergency response system is taking shape. It is one that most people pass every day without noticing, yet one that can make the difference [...]
AI is compressing the timeline of cyberattacks from days to minutes and healthcare organisations are especially exposed. In this Q&A, Jim McGann, CMO at Index Engines, explains why traditional defences like backups and immutable snapshots aren't enough on their own, and why "recovery confidence" is becoming the new benchmark for cyber resilience in healthcare IT. [...]
By Julia Scott, pharmacist and CxIO (chief multiprofessional informatics officer) at Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust One of the simplest but most powerful benefits of electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems (ePMA) in secondary care is that drug charts no longer go missing. Before ePMA, it was a familiar situation to lose a paper drug chart. [...]
