NHS Digital programme director: Innovation is not just about ‘chucking an iPad’ at it
In a session at the 2018 NHS Confederation Conference, Cleveland Henry talked about the digital successes and challenges that NHS Digital has encountered and argued more work was needed to actually get people to use technology.
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Cambridge University Hospitals selects Novosco for IT infrastructure management
The £107 million seven-year contract will see Novosco provide a range of services to support the global digital exemplar’s eHospital programme and its EPR.
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PM announces £20bn annual cash boost for NHS and points to value of tech
Theresa May has announced the health service’s annual budget will increase by 3.4% annually by 2023, describing it as a “birthday present” as the NHS nears its 70th anniversary.
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Babylon partners up with Bupa for ‘one of a kind’ health service
Later this month, corporate Bupa customers will be able to access Babylon’s services such as online GP consultations and its clinical triage service.
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS FT signs five-year e-prescribing deal
Dr Sue Elcock, the trust’s medical director, told Digital Health News that would begin piloting would begin piloting Civica’s system on a specialist forensic unit some time between “August and September”, which ties into the go live date of the trust’s Servelec electronic patient record.
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Industry news in brief
This month’s industry round up features news that Public Health England has selected the Stone Group to replace existing Windows 7 devices.
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Buckinghamshire selects Graphnet for county-wide shared record
The programme is being led by NHS Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and will use Graphnet’s CareCentric software to share information between Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire County Council Social Care and 51 GP practices.
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Academic Health Science Networks to be given increased funding
At the latest NHS England board meeting in May, members were presented with a report which looked into the 15 AHSNs which are said to have enabled the spread of 200 innovations since they were introduced in 2013.
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NHS England heavily criticised for misdirected clinical correspondence
The public accounts committee (PAC) has criticised NHS England for “wasting nearly two and a half million pounds” on trying to resolve backlogs of misdirected clinical correspondence.
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Government minister calls for NHS and councils to prioritise CP-IS
Nadhim Zahawi’s announcement follows a plea by the children’s commissioner for England who urged all NHS organisations in the country to adopt CP-IS as soon as possible, after it was revealed that just over half of NHS sites have implemented it.
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