NHS login launches pilot to help develop service for future use
NHS login is a single identity verification system for the health service to help make it easier for people to access their health information.
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Un’appy times – the challenges facing the NHS App
The NHS App that launched at the end of December is a prestige project on the road to NHS digitisation championed by first Jeremy Hunt and now by Matt Hancock. But it’s just lost two of its key leaders and faces serious technical challenges if it is to become the default digital gateway for patients. Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports.
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Former NHS App programme director takes up CIO role at Kettering
Andy Callow, who has also been head of technology delivery for NHS.UK, has left his position at NHS Digital and will start his new role in the Spring.
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Digital Health’s Review of 2018 Part Two: July to December
As Digital Health continues its round up of 2018, we hit the second half of the year. Claire Read looks back on the balmy summer in which Jeremy Hunt bid farewell to the health brief; charts Matt Hancock’s technology focus; and records the swelling of various exemplar ranks.
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Citizen Identity project re-branded as NHS Login
Adam Lewis from NHS Digital also confirmed the NHS App will be rolled out nationwide on a region by region basis from December.
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Industry news in brief
Our latest industry round-up reveals that less than a quarter of GPs in the UK believe the NHS app will be delivered on time.
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NHS App to launch to nationwide private beta testers tomorrow
Juliet Bauer revealed that the NHS App will offer health triaging, appointment booking, repeat prescriptions and access to medical records upon launch.
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NHS Digital CEO says healthcare is ‘entering the self-service era’
Sarah Wilkinson also praised health and social care secretary Matt Hancock during her keynote speech at the UK Health Show, saying he ‘gets standards’.
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Mobile health and apps news in brief
Our latest mobile health and apps round up features news that a survey by Roche Products Ltd has revealed there is an appetite for the NHS App
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