McDonald calls for greater honesty and culture change on NHS IT
Joe McDonald said key lessons from NPfIT had not been learned and it remained difficult for local NHS IT leaders to have honest conversations with the centre.
CCIO Network 9
Cheshire CCGs receive approval to merge in April 2020
NHS Eastern Cheshire, NHS South Cheshire, NHS Vale Royal and NHS West Cheshire will become the first CCGs in Cheshire and Merseyside to merge.
News
Screening IT systems ‘unsafe’ and require ‘urgent’ upgrades, review finds
Current IT systems “cannot support the safe running of screening programmes”, Professor Sir Mike Richards found in his review of screening programmes.
Clinical Software
New online platform promotes mental health self-care
The platform offers expert mental health advice and practical tips as well as a quiz which provides a personalised action plan with self-care actions.
Digital Patient
More than 100,000 women access records through digital maternity tools
NHS England committed to ensuring digital services replaced clunky paper notes when the Long Term Plan was published in January.
Digital Patient
NHSE publishes toolkit for implementing online GP consultations
The document suggests there’s no “one size fits all” approach to implementing online consultations and encourages practices to learn from each other.
Digital Patient
NHS needs to be ‘slim and simple’ to allow innovation, Donnelly says
Speaking at HETT on 2 October the chief digital officer at NHSE spoke about the importance of working with the digital health market.
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New patient list rules are a ‘significant undertaking’ for digital providers, Babylon says
Paul Bate, managing director of NHS services for Babylon, told Digital Health News that setting up new patient lists would take ‘time, resource and cost’.
Digital Patient 1
NHSE to create ‘innovation greenhouse’ to accelerate uptake of technology
The innovation greenhouse will provide integrated care systems (ICS) with easier access to “tried and tested innovations”, according to NHSE papers.
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Changes to out-of-area GP rules ‘would be burdensome’ to CCGs’
The Digital Healthcare Council argued patient care should not be limited to CCG boundaries and instead called for a “partnership model” to be put in place.
Digital Patient