GNCR medical director calls for culture change on NHS IT
The medical director of Great Northern Care Record has said that the culture that led to the failures of the national programme for IT (NPfIT) is being carried into NHSX. …
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Digital agency partners with Teenage Cancer Trust to redesign care portal
A Yorkshire-based digital agency has been awarded a contract to design a new and improved digital care portal for young people with cancer. HMA, which works with clients across the …
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Scottish GP practices to benefit from £9m for IT upgrades
GP practices in Scotland are set to benefit from more than £9million to upgrade IT systems. The newly announced funding will be used to improve internet connectivity and support the …
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Director of transformation Sam Shah leaves NHSX
The director of transformation at NHSX has left the organisation, it has been confirmed. A spokesperson for NHSX told Digital Health News that Sam Shah left the position after his …
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NHS staff unable to access NHSMail for an afternoon
Some NHSmail users were temporarily unable to get access to Microsoft Outlook this week. NHS Digital tweeted at around 4pm on 5 November to say it was “working with the …
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‘Significant safety risk’ surrounds e-prescribing after drug mix-up
A “significant safety risk” has been identified with electronic prescribing after a patient was inadvertently given two types of blood-thinning medications at the same time, a new report has found. …
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Remote monitoring system saves a fifth of nurses’ time at Kent trust
A remote patient monitoring system has saved a Kent trust a fifth of nurses’ time – the equivalent of one extra nurse per shift. Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust implemented …
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Real benefits of shared records explored at Digital Health Networks event
The benefits of sharing medical records was the theme of a Digital Health Networks event held in Maidenhead today (5 November). Organised by Thames Valley and Surrey Care Records and …
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‘Human-centred’ innovation needed to successful adopt AI in the NHS
A “human-centred” culture of innovation is needed to successfully integrate “radical technologies” like artificial intelligence into the NHS, a new report has found. The report, Patient AI, also found there …
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‘Significant resource’ needed for tech to support dwindling GP numbers
“Significant resource” in both capital and running costs for technologies are needed to support primary care among dwindling numbers of GPs across the country, a report has found. The Nuffield …
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