NHS boost includes £1 billion for IT
Updated: The NHS in England is to have the ‘Five Year Forward View’ fully funded – and the government is to invest £1 billion in NHS IT over the next five years, the Chancellor has announced.
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Updated: The NHS in England is to have the ‘Five Year Forward View’ fully funded – and the government is to invest £1 billion in NHS IT over the next five years, the Chancellor has announced.
Around 700,000 patients who objected to having their identifiable data shared with third parties will have their wishes recognised by January next year, nearly two years after being offered the opt-out.
A single child health system for the West Midlands will operate from April next year, following the award of a region-wide contract to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust and System C.
Eighteen community and mental health trusts in London and the South have switched electronic patient record systems following the end of their national contracts, with 21 sticking with RiO but moving onto individual contracts with its supplier, Servelec.
This month’s round-up of apps and mobile developments includes new apps to support parents, a cookery app that measures brain function and GPS tracking for dementia patients
The National Programme for IT has come to an end in London and the South with the exit of the final trust to deploy Cerner Millennium from the BT data centre.
An NHS hospital is using technology developed to monitor drivers in the McLaren Formula One racing team to keep track of the health of seriously ill children.

HSSIB has warned that gaps in information sharing between the NHS and independent prescribing services

The final round of speakers for Summer Schools 2026 has been announced, with experienced NHS
The NHS is failing to capitalise on productivity benefits by underusing AI for admin tasks,

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has become one of only seven NHS organisations in the

NHS hospitals have declared critical incidents and reported failures affecting cooling systems, diagnostic equipment and