Exploring the rare diseases action plan
In a piece for Digital Health, the minister for patient safety and primary care, Maria Caulfield, explores the recently announced rare diseases action plan.
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Practical steps for using technology to improve patient outcomes
Mike Farrar, a former chief executive of the NHS Confederation, shares 8 practical steps on how technology can help with stroke prevention and management.
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Turning something as ordinary as switching on a kettle into health insight
Dr Haidar Samiei explores how the pandemic has increased the trend for remote health monitoring and can help shape new ways of delivering healthcare.
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Breaking down the barriers of nursing behind closed doors
Hayley Valentine, a former critical care nurse, explores the challenges ahead for nursing ever larger numbers of patients in their own rooms.
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No more stop gaps: Why it’s time to change the focus on digital
Victor Adebowale explores what digital transformation needs to look like moving forward and why it is so important to ensure it is beneficial.
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NHS funding: £250m to boost access to ‘cutting edge technologies’
It comes as the government introduced a new health and social care tax to raise an extra £36billion for frontline services over the next three years.
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GP referral technology cuts hospital appointments by just under two thirds
Data has revealed that GPs who use referral technology to manage patients are able to cut the number of hospital appointments by just under two thirds.
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Halifax care home keeps Covid-free thanks to nurse call technology
A nursing home in Halifax has credited its innovative nurse call technology for keeping it Covid-free since the virus first hit the UK.
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Digital mental health key to tackling deepening mental health crisis
In an exclusive piece for Digital Health, former MP Norman Lamb, explores why technology can help tackle the growing mental health crisis.
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Government to trial new tech which can rapidly detect new Covid mutations
Technology which aims to rapidly detect new Covid mutations by indicating whether positive test samples contain known variants is being trialled.
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