TRAINING & INNOVATION MONTH: How care homes are collaborating with EdTech and HealthTech providers
Pressured by rising demand, regulatory complexity, and workforce shortages, care home leaders are turning to strategic partnerships with EdTech and HealthTech providers to drive innovation, improve outcomes, and meet evolving standards of care. These collaborations are not just about adopting new technologies – they’re about modernising care delivery through smarter training, digital tools, and data-driven decision-making. The result? […]
TRAINING & INNOVATION MONTH: How care homes are using digital platforms to upskill staff
Care homes continue to face mounting challenges around staffing shortages, evolving regulations, and increasingly complex resident needs. To meet these demands, forward-thinking care providers are turning to digital training platforms to upskill their workforce, improve compliance, and ensure consistent, high-quality care delivery. These tools are enabling care homes attending the Care Forum to future-proof their workforce while also creating […]
Innovation Clinics will provide support to budding healthcare ideas
Budding entrepreneurs can get advice on how to bring their products to life thanks to a new partnership with the University of Leicester. Leicestershire Innovation Clinics aim to offer support to students, academics and healthcare professionals, or companies already in, or transitioning into, the life sciences, medtech and health tech sectors within Leicestershire. A series […]
Mace & Menter adding innovation to South West health services
Government service design specialist Mace & Menter has won a competitive tender to work with the NHS on a series of projects to adapt and innovate health services in the South West. The firm will support Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group’s ongoing drive to design more effective and inclusive services around the needs […]
NCF and NHS Digital launch Hubble Project to push tech in care
A new project has been launched by the National Care Forum with funding from NHS Digital’s Digital Pathfinders Programme to help care providers to successfully introduce, use and evaluate technology. The Hubble Project offers senior decision makers the chance to virtually visit ‘innovation hubs’ (via webinar) to learn how other care providers have introduced, used and […]
10 innovations that are helping to drive a healthcare revolution
‘Social prescriptions’, smart beds and digital programmes for diabetes are among the futuristic innovations which could transform the NHS in the near future. According to a new report, patients will soon be connected to social networks of people living in similar situations to learn to manage their own conditions from others who have gone through […]
