With the expansion of both telemedicine and robotic surgery, there has been an increase in consultations and robotic surgery being carried out across national boundaries. This has both medical and legal implications and the speakers will discuss how they have been addressing this.
The UK has a group of vibrant innovators who have been developing apps for the benefit of health and social care in the UK. The challenge is validating the apps for the NHS without incurring huge expense and then getting the commercial directorate of NHS England (and the other devolved nations) to purchase the apps without having to jump through all the hurdles provided by the NHS purchasers.
UKDHC in collaboration with the University of Central Lancashire and Think Employment has developed a digital competency self-assessment on-line module to help health and care staff to assess their own digital competencies. Any NHS or care employee will be able to link to our assessment programme from home and carry out their own ‘self-assessment’ online.
Please join us for our next webinar where: Members of UKDHC will explain what we are doing and what we […]
Chaired by Prof. W Angus Wallace, this webinar will cover a discussion of implementation science in digital health and what went wrong with NPfIT, the £10 billion fail.
Speakers:
Dr Jenny Lowles – a retired GP with renal failure who is using the Patients Know Best app
Emma Dunphy – physiotherapist, Digital Clinical Lead, City & Hackney, NIHR Advanced Clinical Academic Fellow
Thomas Smith – Independent Patient Engagement Consultant
Digital products and systems are ubiquitous in healthcare. Their introduction has accelerated over the last 10-15 years. We know that many patients are harmed during their interactions with healthcare organisations and that the rate of adverse events has not moved significantly in that time. What evidence is there that patient safety benefits from digitisation? Or is it possible that we are less safe, now that we are reliant on such systems?
Please join us for the first in our series of Summer Webinars - a live UKDHC webinar on the evening […]
How can health professionals build trust and influence in an age of misinformation and digital noise?Join us for a practical […]
As the NHS invests in Digital Skills, NHS Scotland, along with NHS England, Wales and Northern Ireland,is leading initiatives aligned […]
