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Speaking on the second day of the Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester, Dr Simon Eccles said the NHS was ‘working very hard’ to make NHS leadership roles ‘more inviting’ to women and people from non-white backgrounds.
Simon Stevens also said artificial intelligence will play a larger rols in the NHS, singling out DeepMindâs recent research with Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Speaking later today at NHS Expo in Manchester, Matt Hancock is also expected to announce the NHS App will be piloted across England from October.
In a refreshingly upbeat speech from NHS Englandâs famously-candid national director for operations and information, Swindells suggested NHS IT had taken âa huge step forwardâ in the past two years.
In an announcement made at NHS Expo â currently taking place in Manchester â it was revealed 150 acute hospital trusts and 7,110 GP practices have moved to the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) for sending and receiving all first outpatient appointments.
It is hoped that the exchange of referral information from GPs to hospital consultants will be improved once the new standards are implemented.
A total of 47 acute hospital trusts and 2,479 GP practices have now switched, almost five weeks ahead of the deadline, NHS Digital has confirmed.
NHS England is rolling out AI tools across the health service, including integrated ambient voice
Completing the NHS’s pathology transformation programme could unlock around ÂŁ450m a year for the health
Our latest Movers and Shakers roundup includes new chief executives for East Cheshire NHS Trust
Health Innovation West Midlands (HIWM) has helped local NHS organisations secure a share of the
Today’s briefing includes medical cannabis accreditation and a system to improve musculoskeletal performance or rehabilitation.
