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2 April 2020

New digital service ‘to allow every UK GP surgery to offer remote consults’

Nye Health, a free service that allows GPs to offer remote consultations from any device, integrates with existing systems to
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Coronavirus
2 April 2020

Neither Covid-19 nor cyber-criminals care who gets infected and suffers

With Covid-19 pushing many trusts to their limit, Davey Winder explores why the health service is still an attractive target
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A graphic of the coronavirus virus
2 April 2020

Oxford University launches Covid-19 government response tracker

The Covid-19 Government Response Tracker contains data from 73 countries and records the actions governments have taken in response to
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1 April 2020

Further suppliers for online primary care services during Covid-19 revealed

NHS England has confirmed the successful bidders of further lots in a confidential 48-hour tender for the immediate provision of
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A female doctor texting on a smartphone
1 April 2020

NHS staff given free access to mental health apps amid Covid-19 outbreak

The apps, which include platforms to proactively improve mental health and sleep improvement programmes, will be freely available until December
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1 April 2020

‘Worldā€™s first’ multi-user conversational robots to support elderly healthcare

A four-year project funded by Horizon2020 will develop socially assistive robots able to perform ā€œopen social conversationā€ in a healthcare
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Exterior of NHS Nightingale Hospital at the London ExCel centre
31 March 2020

Barts extends Cerner EPR to NHS Nightingale hospital

NHS Nightingale, the temporary London mega-hospital set up to help the NHS cope with coronavirus patients will use Barts Health
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Online medical record electronic patient record EPR
31 March 2020

Covid-19: NHS datasets ‘not sophisticated enough’ to flag high risk patients

Patients who have been contacted by NHS England can be identified through an ā€œat high riskā€ indicator code applied to
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A nurse tending to a bed at a hospital
31 March 2020

Covid-19: NHS to trial digital passports to free up staff movement

The smartphone-based passports will contain a basic set of credentials that will allow staff to be quickly deployed to different
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Hot Iron
31 March 2020

Strike while the iron is hot: why we need to go further on digital health

Graham Kendall, director of the Digital Healthcare Council, explores why there is much more to be done with regards to
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