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5 September 2019

Early adopters ‘should be celebrated as much as innovators’

Hugh McCaughey, national director of improvement, argued there needed to be more incentives and recognition for early adopters.
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4 September 2019

Simon Stevens calls for greater investment in diagnostics at NHS Expo

In his keynote address Simon Stevens said more funding was needed to build on recent Government investments, including the Ā£250
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27 August 2019

New toolkit recommends Skype consults to cut hospital admissions

The toolkit could prevent up to 2,500 emergency admissions a year using digital services, saving up to Ā£10 million according
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Local Integrated Care Records Exemplar Programme to launch January
16 August 2019

Exclusive: Local Health and Care Records initiative may lose funding

Future funding for LHCREs may be redirected to fund other projects, including last weekā€™s Ā£1.8bn for NHS infrastructure and Ā£250m
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Will Smart
19 July 2019

Outgoing NHS England CIO reflects on three-year national role

Will Smart struck a sanguine tone at the Digital Health Summer Schools as he reflected on his past three years
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Will Smart
12 July 2019

Will Smart’s departure confirmed for end of September

NHSX CEO, Matthew Gould, tweeted to personally thank Smart for his work as the CIO for Health and Care, saying
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8 July 2019

New data-led NHS safety strategy lets patients log concerns

Under the new Patient Safety Strategy, patients will be able to anonymously submit information if they are concerned about their
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21 June 2019

NHS England chief information officer Will Smart ‘set to move on’

Sources told Digital Health that Smart is expected to leave his role as part of the wholesale shake-up of IT
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30 May 2019

IT needs ‘radical upgrade’ to improve cancer screening, interim report finds

Professor Sir Mike Richards said new IT systems were ā€œurgent priorityā€ and booking an appointment needs to be as ā€œsimple
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