Digital innovation must be ‘at heart’ of healthcare reform
Public Policy Projects called on the government to use digital innovation to better enable collaboration across the NHS and social care.
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Interoperability should not come at cost of “transparent” procurement
Integrated care systems will need to have interoperability embedded if true joined up health and care is to be achieved, a healthcare supplier has said.
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NHS overhaul: ‘Real opportunity’ for digital leaders to shape the future
The chair of Digital Health’s CCIO Network has said government plans to overhaul the NHS provide “real opportunity” for digital leaders to improve care.
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Government announces plans to reform NHS for more joined up care
The NHS reform will “modernise the legal framework” to make the health system “fit for the future”, according to a government statement.
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Call for audit of social care to create ‘roadmap’ for digitisation
According to TechUK social care has been a “policy no man’s land” with attempts to find sustainable models often proving unsuccessful.
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Poor data flows ‘throttled’ timely response to Covid-19
Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee labelled the speed at which public health data was first made available “unacceptable”.
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An alternative (re)view of NHS Digital and NHSX
In a column for Digital Health News under an alias, David Boyd, provides some suggestions for the upcoming Wade-Gery review of NHS Digital and NHSX.
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DHSC must still learn the lessons of its failed IT programmes
DHSC and the NHS have a “long way to go” to deal with the legacy of their track record of failed IT programmes”, a key government committee has said.
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Matt Hancock remains health secretary after UK general election
Matt Hancock will remain as health secretary after Thursday’s General Election after Prime Minster Boris Johnson announced a small cabinet reshuffle.
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Government invests £130m in new tech to tackle life-changing diseases
This includes £50m going towards NHS diagnostic services and support the work of existing ‘centres of excellence’ in digital pathology and imaging with AI.
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