Opinion
Crossed wires
Despite a bumpy start, the first booking made with IBS over Choose and Book in Wandsworth was a success, EHI Primary Care reports.
Wirral’s gateway to care
Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical IT systems.
The ‘magic glue’
EHI speaks to Beverly Malone, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, about the importance of raising awareness of IT change in the nursing
Record hazards
Dr Glyn Hayes, Chair of the Health Informatics Forum at the British Computer Society, argues that electronic patient records can result in all-too-human pitfalls.

Grafton: ‘The 10 year plan needs to be ambitious – I don’t know if it will be’
Hayley Grafton, CNIO at University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, has high hopes for the NHS

Abolishing NHSE diverts attention from local staffing shortages
Upheaval at the centre is a distraction which could worsen shortages of digital expertise on

We need to focus on value – and optimise our existing technology
New technology can bring immediate efficiencies but after a few years “the picture changes”, writes

Innovating early dementia diagnosis
Digital technology is a critical to addressing the ever-expanding burden of dementia, write Prof Dag

Software updates are forcing us into hardware habits we can’t afford
The problem with new, improved software is that the NHS’s creaky hardware can’t cope with