NHS England chief information officer Will Smart ‘set to move on’
Sources told Digital Health that Smart is expected to leave his role as part of the wholesale shake-up of IT leadership at NHS England.
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Beginning of the End for Exemplars?
Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports that the era of exemplar could be coming to an end following an event focussed on the LHCRE programme.
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LHCRE lead to leave for big consultancy
Inderjit Singh, national lead on the LHCRE programme and head of architecture and cyber security at NHSX is joining PA Consulting.
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New NHSX boss to be keynote at Summer Schools
Matthew Gould will also attend as a delegate to meet with and hear from the diverse range of NHS CCIOS, CIOs, CNIOs and Future Digital Leaders taking part.
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Thames Valley and Surrey LHCRE picks Graphnet for regional shared record
The new £12.5 million, seven-year contract will focus on building on and joining up existing shared care records for 3.8m citizens across Surrey, the Thames Valley and Buckinghamshire.
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NHS Digital to appoint ‘Robin Hood of data’ as interim chief medical officer
Digital Health News understands that NHS Digital is set to appoint co-founder and co-chair of the INTEROPen standards group, Dr Amir Mehrkar.
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A tug of war over LHCREs is underway
When the Local Health and Care Record Exemplars LHCREs were created, the official line is that they would support local direct care and enable population health management and analytics at regional level. But, as Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports, tensions are emerging on whether they should also provide a bridge to a federated care.data-like national data resource.
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NHS England awards £16m to second stealth wave of LHCREs
The three new selected LHCRE sites which have been awarded money are the Share2Care, the Great North Care Record and the South West.
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Introduction to Digital Health Networks
Digital Health Networks is an independent grass-roots community of over 3,500 NHS IT and digital health leaders, dedicated to sharing, best practice and collaboration.
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Un’appy times – the challenges facing the NHS App
The NHS App that launched at the end of December is a prestige project on the road to NHS digitisation championed by first Jeremy Hunt and now by Matt Hancock. But it’s just lost two of its key leaders and faces serious technical challenges if it is to become the default digital gateway for patients. Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports.
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