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Former IT director pleads guilty to corruption

24 November 2016

A former senior NHS IT director has pleaded guilty to corruption after accepting payments for awarding a £950,000 contract.

‘Digital evangelist’ role at Department of Health

24 November 2016

Department of Health are on the hunt for a new digital manager to add to their growing team.

Network outages at Cambridge lead to “resilience” review

24 November 2016

Repeated outages at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have led to a “network resilience” review and weekly meetings with senior Hewett Packard executives.

NHS is ‘swamped’ by flurry of initiatives – Lamb

23 November 2016

Former minister says his former flagship integration programme for the NHS suffered from too little power and too many competing initiatives.

Google DeepMind and Royal Free in five-year deal

22 November 2016

After surviving controversies earlier this year, Royal Free London and AI firm Google DeepMind will work on an unprecedented partnership to improve to healthcare in the UK.

Ireland to go-live with national maternity electronic record

22 November 2016

Ireland’s biggest maternity hospital will go-live with Cerner next month, as part of an upgrade that will see all its maternity units switch to the electronic health record system.

NHS leaders accused of ‘pie in the sky’ finance plans

22 November 2016

The chair of the PAC has accused NHS leaders of “making pie in the sky assumptions” about the health service’s ability to close its funding gap, after the NAO concluded its finances were not sustainable for the third year running.