Most Recent

April 17, 2025
Reducing misdiagnosis and helping patients back to work
New imaging technology promises to bring affordable, more detailed 3D imaging to care settings around the world, providing faster and more accurate diagnosis and helping patients get the right care.
April 16, 2025
Data solutions to solve the South West’s patient discharge crisis
Professor Christos Vasilakis, Founding Director of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement - CHI²) and Dr. Zehra Onen Dumlu from the University of Bath discuss the IPACS project - a collaborative, data-driven approach to improving patient flow.
April 14, 2025
Accelerating NHS net zero goals through medicine carbon footprinting
With medicines accounting for a quarter of the NHS carbon footprint, Nazneen Rahman, Founder of YewMaker and co-creator of MCF Classifier, explains how AI-driven medicine carbon emissions data can support practical, scalable strategies that align clinical excellence and environmental stewardship.
April 14, 2025
Benefits of single-handed care highlighted at new qualification launch
Level 2 Proportionate Single-Handed Care qualification formalises single-handed care principles into Ofqual regulated training for the first time. The qualification counters the misconception that it is unlawful to provide moving and handling care activities with less than two handlers.
April 10, 2025
Embedding social prescribing in secondary care: A toolkit from Barts Health
Barts Health NHS Trust and its partner organisation, Transformation Partners in Health and Care, have released a toolkit detailing their pioneering work embedding social prescribing in secondary care and specialist acute pathways. The toolkit aims to help providers address unmet social needs, improve patient outcomes and reduce demand on acute services, shaping a holistic, prevention-focused model for the future NHS.
April 7, 2025
Psychology integrated into trust-wide EPR at LHCH NHS FT
The innovation at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust sees a single digital system delivering a unified patient record, supporting patients’ psychological needs as they undergo treatment.
April 4, 2025
MSE FT deploys AI-powered MyStaff App to boost compliance and efficiency
With mounting pressure on nursing staff and increasing emphasis on patient safety protocols, the MyStaff App ensures that every healthcare professional has instant access to the most current clinical guidelines, reducing the risk of outdated information impacting patient care.
April 2, 2025
Innovative financing: Unlocking the potential of digital health and technology
With traditional medical equipment financing models becoming unsustainable, flexible financing options are increasingly helping healthcare providers improve their financial efficiency and supporting long-term digital health transformation.

Acute Care

April 10, 2025
Embedding social prescribing in secondary care: A toolkit from Barts Health
Barts Health NHS Trust and its partner organisation, Transformation Partners in Health and Care, have released a toolkit detailing their pioneering work embedding social prescribing in secondary care and specialist acute pathways. The toolkit aims to help providers address unmet social needs, improve patient outcomes and reduce demand on acute services, shaping a holistic, prevention-focused model for the future NHS.
April 2, 2025
Innovative financing: Unlocking the potential of digital health and technology
With traditional medical equipment financing models becoming unsustainable, flexible financing options are increasingly helping healthcare providers improve their financial efficiency and supporting long-term digital health transformation.
February 23, 2023
The NHS must break the cycle on heart failure
Integrated Care Journal recently spoke to Dr Ashton Harper, Head of Medical Affairs (UK & Ireland) at Roche Diagnostics, to examine the heart failure diagnostic pathway and identify where the biggest opportunities in NHS diagnostics exist.
January 4, 2023
Non-emergency transport is crucial for winter resilience 
Seasonal pressures and existing backlogs look set to increase demand for non-emergency transport this winter. Writing for ICJ, ERS Medical’s Chief Executive Andrew Pooley, and Quality and Governance Director Simon Smith, outline why they are pushing hard for winter transport resilience.
October 25, 2022
How the ICS can unify data and relieve elective care
In taking decisive action to bring down elective care backlogs, Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System has demonstrated the value of industry collaboration – made possible by the new ICS construct.
April 14, 2022
Community Diagnostic Centres: A critical response to regional inequalities
The latest report from Vanguard, Assessing the current state of play of CDC delivery across England, 2021, provides much needed clarity on the current status of CDC rollout and identifies where more support is required to achieve regional equality in healthcare provision.

Primary Care

November 14, 2024
The value of partnerships in enabling holistic diabetes care
PPP’s Director of Market Access and Policy, Ameneh Saatchi, spoke with Naj Rotheram, Medical Lead for Partnerships at Boehringer Ingelheim, to discuss their view on primary care, partnerships and how they can best support the NHS in delivering a new holistic approach to diabetes care.
February 23, 2023
The NHS must break the cycle on heart failure
Integrated Care Journal recently spoke to Dr Ashton Harper, Head of Medical Affairs (UK & Ireland) at Roche Diagnostics, to examine the heart failure diagnostic pathway and identify where the biggest opportunities in NHS diagnostics exist.
October 27, 2022
HEE extends new educational resource to GPs
Health Education England is extending a new online tool for clinicians, GeNotes, designed to help them access vital care for their patients. 
August 18, 2022
How Tunstall Healthcare is investing in the leaders of the future 
Global market leading health and care technology company, Tunstall Healthcare is investing in the next generation of health, housing and social care professionals with the launch of a new range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited courses.

Social Care

April 14, 2025
Benefits of single-handed care highlighted at new qualification launch
Level 2 Proportionate Single-Handed Care qualification formalises single-handed care principles into Ofqual regulated training for the first time. The qualification counters the misconception that it is unlawful to provide moving and handling care activities with less than two handlers.
January 16, 2025
Report details perilous state of UK adult social care
Latest Sector Pulse Check report calls for a multi-year funding settlement when the government’s Spending Review concludes in summer 2025, alongside a fully funded roadmap towards parity between care workers and NHS counterparts.
December 3, 2024
Local authorities join initiative providing digital support to carers
1 million carers across England are benefiting from tech-powered support, as 1 in 4 (25 per cent) local authorities across the country have joined an initiative providing essential, digital services for all those who look after loved ones in their communities over the course of this year.
November 1, 2024
Reforming diabetes care in care homes: training, collaboration, and compassion
Navodi Kuruppu spoke with Lynne Reedman, Founder and Service Lead for DUET Diabetes, and Martin Scivier, diabetes patient and advocate, and #dedoc° member, to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on care home residents with diabetes, the importance of peer support, and the urgent need to prioritise care for vulnerable and older populations.
March 26, 2024
Accelerating remote monitoring innovation in social care
With the number of people who will require at-home care set to increase, innovation to boost capacity and drive efficiencies in social care is desperately needed, writes Fiona Brown, Chief Care Officer at Lilli.
August 23, 2023
Protecting the dignity of vulnerable people through technology
Gavin Bashar, Managing Director at Tunstall Healthcare, discusses why it’s important to protect the dignity of vulnerable people and how technology can be used to achieve this while improving health and care outcomes.
November 7, 2022
Energy cost support resource launched for care workers
As social care workers and providers grapple with sharply rising energy costs this winter, Community Integrated Care has launched a new programme to support social care workers, people using services and family carers.
October 31, 2022
Care England issues S.O.S. for care sector
Care England has this week written to the newly appointed Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, calling for the Conservative manifesto promise to ‘fix social care’ to be delivered in his premiership.
October 12, 2022
Cost of living hits social care staff as vacancies soar
As a Health Foundation report finds care home staff are more likely to be living in poverty than other health workers, figures from Skills for Care show the social care vacancy rate has risen to a record-high.

Local Government

October 6, 2022
An opportunity to secure sustainability
Care England, the largest and most diverse representative body for independent providers of adult social care in England, has welcomed a new Care Provider Alliance publication as an opportunity for Local Authorities to recognise the pressures facing independent providers now and in the future.

Mental Health

April 7, 2025
Psychology integrated into trust-wide EPR at LHCH NHS FT
The innovation at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust sees a single digital system delivering a unified patient record, supporting patients’ psychological needs as they undergo treatment.

Become a Partner

If you would like to enquire about a media partnership with ICJ, please contact carl.hodgkinson@dorsonwest.com for more information.
Integrated Care Journal
  • Phone: 0207 8399305
  • ISSN: 2517-2662
Integrated Care Journal
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.