‘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.
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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.
NAO report highlights “complexity of the NHS digital landscape”
25 June 2020
The team behind a report into digital transformation across NHSE have said they think it highlights the “complexity of the NHS digital landscape”.
NHSX publishes £3m tender to help phase out pagers
25 June 2020
The solutions must enable secure messaging; image sharing; staff directory linked to the NHS.net address book; and calls.
Frimley Health achieves HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6
26 June 2026
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has become one of only seven NHS organisations in the
NHS hospitals declare critical incidents as heat causes IT failures
26 June 2026
NHS hospitals have declared critical incidents and reported failures affecting cooling systems, diagnostic equipment and
Omega 365 platform selected for Frimley hospital programme
25 June 2026
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has selected Omega 365’s system to support its major hospital
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
25 June 2026
Today’s briefing features a rise in the use of translation services driven by high petrol
Oxford AI studies secure NIHR funding to tackle NHS waiting times
25 June 2026
Two studies have received funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research as
