Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
7 January 2025
Our latest Coffee Time Briefing covers a new online prescription service at Morrisons and a CBE for Milton Keynes CEO, Joe Harrison.
News
Maternity app and electronic health record to be rolled out in Wales
7 January 2025
An electronic health record and app will be rolled out across Wales to enable mothers-to-be to access their full maternity records instantly.
John Quinn to leave NHS England CIO role
7 January 2025
John Quinn, chief information officer (CIO) at NHS England, has announced he will leave the role at the end of March 2024.
Imperial College to go live with Netcall’s contact centre solution
6 January 2025
Imperial College Healthcare is to upgrade to Netcall’s cloud-based contact centre solution to improve patient engagement and productivity.
NHS App upgrades planned to help cut elective care waiting lists
6 January 2025
The government is upgrading the NHS App to enable patients to choose providers, book appointments and receive test results, all in one place.
Government to develop NHS shared digital platform for medical info
6 January 2025
The government will develop a shared digital platform to allow up-to-date medical information to be shared between the NHS and care staff.
AI to help patients with long-term conditions in north east London
3 January 2025
Thousands of patients are benefitting from an NHS initiative that uses AI to better support those living with long-term health conditions.
Health committee urges government to ‘further progress’ NHS digitalisation
7 January 2022
The Health and Social Care Committee has urged the government “to make further progress on
Industry news in brief
7 January 2022
The latest Digital Health News industry round-up includes a new app for arthritis patients, a
Hospify platform to shut down following suspension of Data Protection Act
6 January 2022
The Hospify platform will close on 31 January after its “exponential growth curve collapsed” as
NHS App celebrates turning three with 22million users
6 January 2022
The NHS App was launched in December 2018 and now boasts 22million registered users –
NHS Digital’s Prof Jonathan Benger awarded CBE for ‘services to the NHS’
5 January 2022
NHS Digital’s Professor Jonathan Benger has been awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
