National media frenzy follows breast cancer IT scandal announcement
Reactions have been pouring in to the news that a ‘computer algorithm failure’ which dated back to 2009 resulted in around 450,000 missing their final breast cancer screening.
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Hunt: IT error ‘could have cut short the lives of up to 270 women’
Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Health and Social Care Secretary said the affected group of women were not sent invitations before their 71st birthday because of “a computer algorithm failure” that dated back to 2009.
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Jeremy Hunt backs calls for ‘WhatsApp-style’ messaging app for NHS staff
A “WhatsApp-style” instant messaging service will be trialled within the NHS as part of attempts to improve communications between care teams and reduce reliance on outdated or unsafe technology.
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NHS digital programme to benefit from £760m government funding
The government has announced it is releasing £760 million into the NHS, which includes money to improve the use of its digital programme as part of the national health body’s 70th birthday.
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Jeremy Hunt promises £75m for e-prescribing acceleration
A report by Department of Health and Social Care has recommended the roll-out of e-prescribing systems in NHS hospitals needs to be ‘accelerated’.
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Former NHS Digital chief exec appointed as Zesty’s Board advisor
The former chief executive of NHS Digital, Andy Williams, has now joined leading European digital health company, Zesty as its Board Advisor.
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Joe’s View: Consent is dead; long live citizen data sharing preferences
Joe McDonald wasn’t a hobbit in Lord of the Rings, he wasn’t at Wembley to see Geoff Hurst’s winner, but he did see Otis bowl a historic tenfer and he’s now heard Jeremy Hunt promise to put patients in control of data sharing.
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Hunt to promise every NHS patient app access to records
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says every patient in England will be able to use an app to access their medical records and book GP appointments by end 2018.
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18 NHS hospital ‘fast follower’ trusts named
The second wave of 18 NHS digital pioneers, or ‘fast followers’, will be named today at the NHS Innovation Expo in Manchester by Secretary of State for Health Jeremy.
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NHS digitisation means mail blunder “unlikely” to occur again, Hunt tells Commons
The shift to electronic systems will mean the blunder of 709,000 medical correspondence items not delivered is “unlikely” to occur again, according to Hunt.
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