Digital Health Unplugged: Contact-tracing app U-turn
30 June 2020
Join senior reporter Andrea Downey, editor Hannah Crouch, and editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma as they look at the reasons behind the U-turn.
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NHS Digital CEO named as one of the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries
30 June 2020
Sarah Wilkinson has been named as one of the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries by HotTopics for the work she overseen at NHS Digital during Covid-19.
Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’
29 June 2020
Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with āstrong political connectionsā that have access to the data.
‘Clinically unsafe’ Health Help Now app set to be deleted
29 June 2020
Health Help Now will no longer be available to users from the end of June following the decision to decommission the service.
British Gas volunteers who delivered telehealth equipment thanked
29 June 2020
Liverpool CCG and a telehealth provider have thanked volunteers from British Gas who helped deliver equipment across the city during the Covid-19 pandemic.
E-prescribing go-live at Somerset NHS FT goes ‘Better’ than expected
26 June 2020
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with Better’s e-prescribing and medications management solution across its surgical services.
Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’
26 June 2020
Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data will be used by the app.
NHSEās Dermot Ryan confirmed for Summer Schools 2026
4 June 2026
Dermot Ryan, director of digital transformation at NHS England, has been announced as the latest
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā
4 June 2026
Today’s briefing features the detection of Alzheimer’s using VR and a personal training platform that
John Browett named chair of NHS online hospital trust
4 June 2026
John Browett, business leader and former supermarket chief executive, has been named as chair of
Almost 33,000 Bedfordshire patients had data stolen in cyber attack
3 June 2026
Almost 33,000 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust patients had personal data stolen in the cyber
NHS AI scribe rollout should include national oversight, report finds
3 June 2026
The rollout of AI scribes across the NHS should be accompanied by national oversight, according
