NHS unveils £1bn plan for primary-care digital deals including patient records and remote consultations
Potential providers invited to respond to early-engagement notice
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Home Office starts search for £1bn ESN partner and system to measure ‘coverage and quality’ of supplier networks
Department opens bidding for firm to replace Motorola in delivering core user services
NHS urges practices to adopt online GP registration
Six in seven practices have yet to join digital service launched nine months ago
NHS spends £8m on one-month extensions for major Microsoft deals
Health service puts in place short-term arrangements with incumbent reseller suppliers
Public-health agency to continue using mobile-network data to track population movement
UKHSA signs deals with BT and O2 to provide insights into ‘behavioural changes post-pandemic’
Prescriptions issued via NHS app hit 500,000 a week
Use of technology to order medication has risen sixfold since the beginning of FY22
Emergency Services Network delivery date set to 2029
Troubled programme began work in 2015 and is now expected to complete a full decade behind original schedule
Government offers £100k for NHS digital policy chief
Leader sought for joint DHSC-NHS team dedicated to tech and data
Scottish Government and NHS announce partnership to test new tech
Programme to support SME growth will work with health test bed initiative
Government plans system for GPs to authorise at-home tests
System will allow clinicians to authorise kits to be sent out
ICO reprimands NHS Highland for disclosing identities of HIV patients
Regulator applies new approach to the public sector by issuing recommendations rather than a £35,000 fine
NHS England agreed to pay £160,000 to prop up troubled GP software supplier
Contract notice cites ‘extreme urgency’ in funding Silicon Practice for two weeks to avoid its software services closing
NHS long-term cyber strategy sets out plan to ramp up workforce and ‘defend as one’
Government sets out vision for improving resilience of health and social care sector by the end of the decade
NHS digital check-ups for over 40s scheduled to launch next year
Process is intended to help prevent a range of illnesses and conditions
Expanded NHS England taps McKinsey to design data and analytics model in £1m deal
Management consultancy brought in to help shape national body’s use of data
‘Intense scrutiny’ - Croydon’s tech chief on making the case for digital in tough times
Opama Khan tells delegates that focus must be on outcomes and benefits, rather than the technology itself
Government plans national platform for sharing of social-care data
DHSC shortly to begin work on system due to launch in 2024
Scotland unveils health and care data strategy to ‘empower’ patients
Minister unveils plan and stresses importance of ‘taking people with us’
NHS plans £150m framework to help solve trusts legacy issues with patient data
Health service identifies problems caused by organisations’ requirement to maintain multiple systems
Government looks to turn Covid data platform into public ‘multi-threat dashboard’ for future health emergencies
The pandemic ‘demonstrated benefits’ of keeping citizens informed
NHS signs nationwide £20m deal for ‘electronic infection control’ systems
Systems delivered by US healthcare giant is intended to help trusts replace patchwork of paper documents and spreadsheets
Some NHS bodies still in process of ‘reconnecting’ six months on from cyberattack on IT systems supplier
Minister reveals that fallout continues to affect platforms and data