NHS Digital and NHSX to merge with NHS England
Both NHS Digital and NHSX are to be incorporated into NHS England and Improvement, following recommendations made in the Wade-Gery review.
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The importance of greening our working lives
Mark Reynolds, NHS Digital’s CTO, discusses the sustainability challenges that face the digital sector and how the organisation plans to tackle them.
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New standard to improve medicines information sharing set to launch
It is hoped a standardised approach to sharing medicines information will reduce medicines related errors and, ultimately, improve patient safety.
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NHS saves more than 2 million hours using Microsoft Teams
In the first six months Microsoft Teams was used across the health service it replaced 14.5m phone calls and hosted more than 32m virtual meetings.
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New information added to NHS Digital’s cyber security campaign
The Keep IT Confidential cyber security awareness campaign from NHS Digital has been updated with new advice and best practice for staying safe online
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‘Take the workforce with us’ for successful integration
Speaking at day two the Autumn Leadership Summit, Professor Jonathan Benger stressed the importance of workforce involvement in integration.
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ICSs expected to deliver ‘fully costed digital plan by March 2022’
Speaking at Digital Health’s Autumn Leadership Summit, Sonia Patel outlined the next steps of the What Good Looks Like framework for trust’s and ICSs.
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Digital leaders to work with GP IT suppliers for ‘safe’ prescribing tools
A lack of safe digital prescribing tools could lead to fatal medication errors “linked to poor design of electronic health records”, a new report found.
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Digital Clinical Safety Strategy a ‘vote of confidence’ in technology
One week ago NHSX published the first of its kind Digital Clinical Safety Strategy – now industry leaders tells us what they think of the framework.
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NHS App ‘storing facial recognition data with private tech company’
Biometric verification company iProov was awarded a contract by NHS Digital in 2019 to manage user identity on the NHS App.
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