North of England rip up paper referrals ahead of October deadline
A total of 47 acute hospital trusts and 2,479 GP practices have now switched, almost five weeks ahead of the deadline, NHS Digital has confirmed.
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Cerner announces partnership with STP to connect information
The partnership will allow the sharing of health records of up to 1.5 million people across the boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.
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Health secretary highlights lack of national interoperability standards
Matt Hancock shadowed front-line staff during an overnight shift at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and said he was stuck by the lack of technology.
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Welsh patients know best after being given access to their records
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board is the first board in Wales to offer access to the Patients Know Best (PKB) portal, which gives patients instant access to their medical records.
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Mobile health and apps news in brief
Our latest mobile health and apps roundup includes a partnership between TotalMobile and a London mental health trust, and word of a AI Google health coach.
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Exclusive: £412.5m allocated to STPs for provider digitisation
A prospectus for the £412.5 million Health System Led Investment (HSLI) programme was issued on 10 August to all STP leaders, but while spending plans will be developed across a local health economy, funding will go to individual providers.
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Push Doctor announces founder and CEO has stepped down
The online GP service confirmed CEO Eren Ozagir’s departure, adding that the company’s COO, Wais Shaifta, has assumed the role of acting CEO.
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Docman ‘becomes first to integrate with the NHS e-Referral Service’
The company says integration means that referral and clinical information will be viewed digitally by consultants more easily and in one place.
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Potentially life-saving digital defibrillator map to be piloted
West Midlands Ambulance Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service will be the first trusts to trial the network before its national rollout.
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Sensyne Health plans to raise £60m through floating on London Stock Exchange
Sensyne applies AI algorithms to anonymised data to find potential clinical solutions which can be later sold to pharmaceutical companies.
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