NHS facing weeks of disruption after cyberattack on supplier of patient records systems
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Test and Trace ‘scaling down’ use of consultants
Programme leader Dido Harding says use of outside help is being reduced although will continue to some extent
Government considers role of technology in enforcing quarantine
Minister says mandating isolation is ‘right course of action’
Government opens non-digital routes for home Covid tests
Video call service is also available for citizens with visual impairments
Delayed publication of coronavirus contracts ruled unlawful
Court finds that Matt Hancock broke the law
Extra 800,000 people to be prioritised for vaccine after use of ‘predictive risk’ technology
Government identifies additional cohort of at-risk people
Councils organise local computers for remote schooling schemes
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Digital identity plans to promote 'vouching' by professionals
Government will set legal requirements for digital identity providers rather than consider national identity cards
NAO finds government struggled with data needed to build shielding list
Report finds 126,000 people were told to shield unnecessarily, as well as 30,000 who had already died
Ben Goldacre to review research use of health data
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West Hertfordshire NHS Trust signs £30m ten-year deal for electronic patient records
Contract awarded to US player Cerner
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DHSC picks higher of Turing Institute’s two estimates of number of cases averted
Government tapped fleet of £1,300-a-day AWS consultants to advise on contact-tracing app
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