Health Tech Alliance report calls for further funding to accelerate cloud adoption
The Health Tech Alliance, a coalition of health technology companies, has today called for increased funding to be made available to Integrated Care Systems to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based technologies across the health system. The call is one of a series of...
Autumn Budget 2021: Our key takeaways
The Autumn Budget and Spending Review felt fairly anticlimactic with the majority of the health announcements being briefed to the press ahead of Wednesday – a move that did not go unnoticed by the Deputy Speaker of the House – or announced weeks ahead of the Budget,...
Parliament & HealthTech Conference: HealthTech 2025: The Vision Ahead – Post-event Report
We are delighted to share the key takeaways from our final Parliament & HealthTech event of 2021. This report summarises Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt's keynote speech, which took place just two days after the Health and Social Care Committee's report on the Government's...
Health Tech Alliance roundtable examines how patient outcomes might be improved through HealthTech
We are delighted to share the key takeaways from our second Parliament & HealthTech event of 2021, with a foreword from the event host and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Access to Medicines and Medical Devices, Anne Marie Morris MP. In April 2021,...
New Health and Care White Paper
Last week the Department of Health and Social Care published its much-awaited White Paper on the future of healthcare in England, ‘Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all’, which above all, seeks to integrate care, reduce...
Health Tech Alliance welcomes MedTech Funding Mandate news
The Health Tech Alliance is delighted that the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) has confirmed the launch of the MedTech Funding Mandate from spring 2021 and that the criteria will be broadened from April 2022 – something that was announced during our recent...
Health Tech Alliance report sets out vision to truly transform the landscape for the MedTech sector
The Health Tech Alliance, a coalition of health technology companies and bodies from across the health system and chaired by the former Deputy Chief Executive of NHS England Dame Barbara Hakin, has today launched a new report which sets out how to transform the...
The role healthtech should play in tackling the COVID-19 backlog
By Mandeer Kataria The response to the COVID-19 crisis has provided a glimpse into a plausible vision for innovation and transformation within the health service, by way of speedier adoption of health tech solutions. Notable examples across primary, secondary and...
Secretary of State delivers wide-ranging speech on future of healthcare
Speaking at the Royal College of Physicians, the Secretary of State outlined his vision for the future of healthcare noting that COVID-19 had tested every part of “our infrastructure”, giving insights into what works and what does not. He said that coronavirus has...
Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review ‘First Do No Harm’
Last week, the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Review, more commonly known as the Cumberlege review, was published. In February 2018, then Health and Social Care Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, commissioned the review to examine how the healthcare system in England...
NICE commences phased restart of publishing non-COVID-19 guidance
NICE announced its modified publication targets (24 June 2020) for this financial year to include: 4 guideline topics with more to be added to the list in the coming weeks, 8 quality standards, up to 70 technology appraisals and highly specialised technologies...
Health tech critical to the screening, diagnosis and treatment of patients as the NHS focuses on restoring ordinary care
The Health Tech Alliance responded to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s recently launched inquiry ‘Delivering core NHS and care services during the pandemic and beyond’. In our response, we highlight the role that health tech can and should play in...