Dr Foster

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6 January 2026

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This briefing features PocDoc's partnership with Wilmslow Health Centre and Pharmacy2U gaining B Corp status.
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4 August 2021

New head of Telstra Health UK won’t ‘just push paper around’

David Sharp, head of Telstra Health UK, said he does not “just want to push the paper around” when it
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19 September 2019

Dr Foster to create integrated care system for Lambeth GP Federations

Health data specialists will work with Federations to create bespoke data dashboards, linking the organisations and enabling them to compare
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26 March 2015

Dr Foster bought by Oz telecoms firm

Dr Foster Intelligence has been bought by Australian telecommunications company Telstra, nearly a decade after its launch.
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16 January 2014

CQC appoints Roger Taylor

Dr Foster co-founder Roger Taylor will help the Care Quality Commission roll-out its new intelligent monitoring model across care sectors.
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7 October 2013

Surgeon creates ‘Dr Foster rival’

A surgeon has created an online tool that allows people to view the performance of hospitals, measured against five quality
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13 May 2013

Septic shock

Roger Taylor, director of research at Dr Foster, asks how so many Bolton patients came to be coded as having
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21 March 2013

Everybody loses, everybody wins

In an extract from his new book, God Bless the NHS, Roger Taylor of Dr Foster argues that technology can
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25 January 2013

Poor performers highlighted

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has released a new analysis of hospital mortality rates, identifying NHS trusts that
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18 January 2013

The revolution will be digitised

The NHS Commissioning Board’s director of patients and information argues that digital is the biggest single answer to the productivity,
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