Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know about if you want to be “in the know”. 

👇 News 

🚑 East of England Ambulance Service is currently redesigning its website to make it easier for users to find the information they need and use its services online. The new site is planned to go live later this month. 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Life Sciences Hub Wales’ Innovation Directory for Wales is now live, allowing users to search over 260 life sciences-related organisations based in Wales. It signposts users to the right people, whether they’re looking for support with funding, guidance, research or manufacturing. The Innovation Directory is currently in its BETA phase and will be continually updated and expanded as the life sciences landscape evolves. 

🔎 Sussex ICS has launched a new digital discharge planner to provide multidisciplinary teams involved in onward care access to health information for patients leaving hospital. The Transfer of Care dashboard will sit within Sussex’s existing Plexus Shared Care Record, providing access across teams and capturing patient wishes and preferences. It will provide a single source of truth and support all providers and organisations involved in a patient’s care to input updates to their care records. 

💰 Log my Care, a London-based company whose software platform enables care homes and social care organisations to ‘go digital’, has raised an additional £3m funding from existing investor Mercia Ventures. This latest investment will further establish Log my Care as a leading supplier to the learning disability sector and help expand its presence in home care. 

⏳ London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in the country to develop a compound equity index, supporting consistent quality of care regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, and social and economic circumstances. The index will also function as a strategic tool to monitor the trust’s progress towards equity, highlighting both progress and areas for improvement. 

❓ Did you know that? 

A new study by medical cannabis clinic Releaf reveals that East Cambridgeshire is the healthiest area in the UK.   

The study analysed regional data from the Office for National Statistics, the NHS, and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities to identify the healthiest UK local authorities.  

Regions were ranked based on 17 metrics, grouped into five categories: environment, behaviour, life expectancy, mental health, and disease. Results for each category were converted into an overall score out of 100 to determine the ranking.   

East Cambridgeshire comes first with a final score of 67.76/100. This score results from the area being within the top 10 places in the UK in several of the factors analysed, such as proportion of current smokers, which influences the behaviour index group, and mental health factors, such as the average life satisfaction score.    

📖 What we’re reading 

World Health Organisation – Exploring the digital health landscape in the WHO European Region: digital health country profiles

🚨 Upcoming events  

24-25 April, ExCeL London – Digital Healthcare Show