12 councils selected by NHS Digital to run social care tech pilots
25 June 2018
Twelve councils have been awarded Ā£20,000 each by NHS Digital to explore how digital technologies can improve social care.
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Wirral University Teaching Hospital to feature in NHS 70 programme
22 June 2018
The programme will highlight how the trust is using the digital Wirral Care Record, to overcome the health and social care challenges being faced.
Q Doctor selects Docman Connect for GP correspondence delivery
22 June 2018
The solution from Docman will streamline the serviceās document transfer and ensure that Q Doctor can send consultation summaries to GPs within 48 hours.
Cyber security news round-up
22 June 2018
The latest Digital Health cyber security round-up includes news that Dixons Carphone has been hit by yet another cyber-attack, as well as a report from Symantec that suggests a Chinese espionage group may have breached the control systems of a satellite operator.
Leeds and York Partnership NHS FT selects CareWorks for new EPR
21 June 2018
The trust issued a tender for a new EPR in September 2017 and currently runs Civicaās Paris EPR, which was deployed in 2011 on a seven-year-contract.
Doctor’s union chairman calls for GP at Hand to be “scrapped immediately”
21 June 2018
Doctors in Unite (DiU) has accused the service of eroding the personal relationship between GP and patient, and of āhoovering upā younger patients.
NHS Digital incentivises firms to bridge info gap between health and social care
21 June 2018
Local authorities, adult social care providers, researchers and academicĀ institutions have been invited to apply for a share of Ā£1.58m split into three āstreamsā to fund new means of digitising the flow of information between adult social care and health settings.
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
Hampshire and Isle of Wight adopts continuing healthcare platform
2 June 2026
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (HIOW ICB) has gone live with the
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā
2 June 2026
Today’s briefing features a video-on-demand interpreting service and an AI tool that can estimate a
Birmingham NHS trust to digitise over 235m patient records
2 June 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Miziac will digitise more than 235m patient record
