Records come round again
Political parties keep promising patients online access to their medical records. EHI News editor Rebecca McBeth assesses progress in the latest feature on the coalitionâs
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Political parties keep promising patients online access to their medical records. EHI News editor Rebecca McBeth assesses progress in the latest feature on the coalitionâs
Health secretary Jeremy Huntâs call for a âpaperlessâ NHS was the big healthcare IT initiative of the past five years of coalition government. But are
Paul Hodgkin, the former GP and founder of Patient Opinion, reflects on a non-Marxist, Marxian revolution in his last column for EHI.
Critics of care.data say it is sitting in the âlast chance saloonâ. Sam Sachdeva looks at its prospects in the second of EHI Newsâ features
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trustâs prescribing information and communication system helped it to win EHIâs latest award for âpromoting patient safetyâ. Paul Curran reports.

NHS digital investment is being held back not by lack of urgency but by weak

Digital care technologies risk deepening inequalities and increasing pressure on unpaid carers, writes Dr Ekaterina

We can’t build a sustainable digital workforce without recognising impact across all levels, writes Nadira
Digital leadership is not about technology, but about improving care, writes Ian McKenzie, CIO at
The UKâs digital health future depends on predictive care, according to 2026 electronic health record