Criminal investigation after trust downed in cyber attack
3 November 2016
Police are now investigating after a computer virus shut down three northern hospitals for four days.
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IG Toolkit to be scrapped as part of security reboot – Shaw
2 November 2016
The information governance toolkit is likely to be “scrapped” as part of a packet of funding to improve cyber security in the NHS, Rob Shaw, NHS Digital’s chief operating officer, has told EHI LIve in Birmingham.
NHS Digital Academy ‘will be virtual organisation’
2 November 2016
The new NHS Digital Academy will be a virtual organisation that will make use of existing assets and infrastructure, Harpreet Sood from NHS England has said.
Everybody will benefit from exemplars – McNeil
2 November 2016
The NHS’ chief clinical information officer has launched a spirited defence of the controversial exemplars programme.
Stevens announces med tech winners and mobile ECG funding
2 November 2016
Apps to improve the self-management of COPD will be funded by the new Innovation and Technology Tariff, while CCGS will get separate, central funding for mobile ECG devices.
Updated Newcastle Declaration to ‘bake in’ interoperability
2 November 2016
The CCIO Network, the national best practice community of NHS clinical informatics leaders, has updated its 2015 Newcastle Declaration on interoperability in response to feedback from the health and social care specialist group of the trade body techUK.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole virus crisis into third day
1 November 2016
The trust at the centre of a major virus infection has cancelled virtually all of its operations for a third day.
North East and Yorkshire trusts adopt tech for faster scan results
10 July 2026
NHS England is expanding the rollout of Hexarad to help patients in the North East
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
10 July 2026
Our latest roundup features Powys Teaching Health Board rolling out an electronic prescribing and medicines
NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive cancer exams for women
9 July 2026
Thousands of women could avoid invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected womb cancer under an NHS
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board rolls out Better ePMA
9 July 2026
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has begun rolling out the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
NHS staff to face sack or prison for unlawful patient data access
8 July 2026
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has said NHS staff face the sack or
