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Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’

29 June 2020

Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.

‘Clinically unsafe’ Health Help Now app set to be deleted

29 June 2020

Health Help Now will no longer be available to users from the end of June following the decision to decommission the service.

British Gas volunteers who delivered telehealth equipment thanked

29 June 2020

Liverpool CCG and a telehealth provider have thanked volunteers from British Gas who helped deliver equipment across the city during the Covid-19 pandemic.

E-prescribing go-live at Somerset NHS FT goes ‘Better’ than expected

26 June 2020

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with Better’s e-prescribing and medications management solution across its surgical services.

Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’

26 June 2020

Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data will be used by the app.

Mobile health apps news in brief

26 June 2020

This month’s mobile apps news round-up features news that the majority of UK people believe their contact-tracing data will be used for other purposes.