The NHS Technology Adoption Centre’s next wave of “How to, Why to” guides are being launched to support the uptake of innovative technologies, designed to improve the quality of care, improve patient outcomes and enhance productivity.
The NHS Technology Adoption Centre (NTAC) will be launching its next wave of “How to, Why to” guides over the coming months. This organisation has been working with a number of clinicians, managers and commissioners from a range of NHS organisations to develop online guides that support the uptake of innovative technologies that improve the quality of patient care and NHS productivity. In this wave, NTAC will launch guides for the following technologies: Doppler-guided intra-operative fluid management – a technology that assists anaesthetists to optimise fluid balance during major surgery and an intraoperative breast lymph node assay that reduces the requirement for subsequent surgery in breast cancer patients. NTAC will also be launching a range of guides in cardiology, diabetes and urology later in the year.
About the NHS Technology Adoption Centre
Based in Manchester, NTAC was established in 2007 with two main aims. The first aim was to work with partners to identify technologies which deliver both improvements in patient outcomes and NHS system efficiency. Margaret Parton, chief executive of NTAC, explained: “Over the last two years, NTAC has been working with several NHS organisations including NICE, NHS Trusts, as well as industry leaders, to identify these technologies. This task has often been challenging. However, we believe that the underadopted medical devices and techniques that form the basis of our work can have a huge impact on patient care and efficiency in the NHS.” NTAC’s second aim is to work with Trusts and PCTs to implement selected, clinically proven technologies into hospitals and GP surgeries and undertake Technology Implementation Projects to identify and overcome the challenges preventing adoption. “Trusts working with us on our projects both procure the technologies and make the necessary changes to the patient pathway that are required to implement them as the standard of care within their organisations. This learning is then incorporated into a growing range of online “How to, Why to” guides which are promoted across the NHS,” added Margaret Parton.
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