Sixteen tasks for NHS England in 2016
Beverley Bryant, NHS England’s director of digital technology, has laid out a busy schedule for the start of the New Year.
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Beverley Bryant, NHS England’s director of digital technology, has laid out a busy schedule for the start of the New Year.
Digital Health News readers had a “what the flipping heck” moment in March, judging by the fact that ‘Emis and TPP sign data sharing pact’ was the most commented story of 2015.
GPs must offer patients access to their ‘detailed coded record’ by the end of March next year; and NHS England has now released guidance explaining what this will mean.
Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust plans to upgrade its Meditech electronic patient record in the next few months.
The last appointments round-up of 2015 has news of change at the very top of the Department of Health, at the controversial care.data programme, and at trusts and healthcare IT suppliers in the UK.
A Southampton hospital plans to digitise its existing patient records and replace paper processes with electronic forms using Hyland’s electronic document management system OnBase by Hyland, before closing its records library in 2017.
Free wi-fi will be available across all NHS buildings in England as part of the government’s commitment to a paperless health service by 2020, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.

NHS England is expanding the rollout of Hexarad to help patients in the North East
Our latest roundup features Powys Teaching Health Board rolling out an electronic prescribing and medicines
Thousands of women could avoid invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected womb cancer under an NHS

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has begun rolling out the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has said NHS staff face the sack or