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Online pharmacy faces tech problems

5 January 2016

The UK’s biggest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, has left patients without essential medication for weeks as it struggles with technical problems at its new warehouse facility

PAC slams GPES failures

4 January 2016

Whitehall is continuing to fail to learn from IT disasters, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report that also makes stinging criticisms of the organisations involved in the late, over-budget and under-performing GP Extraction Service.

Child health digital strategy promised

4 January 2016

NHS England wants to create a single view of a child’s health record, available online to healthcare professionals and accessible to patients and carers.

Sixteen tasks for NHS England in 2016

31 December 2015

Beverley Bryant, NHS England’s director of digital technology, has laid out a busy schedule for the start of the New Year.

Most read and commented, 2015

29 December 2015

Digital Health News readers had a “what the flipping heck” moment in March, judging by the fact that ‘Emis and TPP sign data sharing pact’ was the most commented story of 2015.

GP ‘detailed coded record’ info revealed

24 December 2015

GPs must offer patients access to their ‘detailed coded record’ by the end of March next year; and NHS England has now released guidance explaining what this will mean.