13 May 2021

What is the Covid-19 passport? Your questions answered

The government has announced Covid-19 passports will be used from May 17, but what are they, how will they work
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Health Apps
12 May 2021

Derbyshire County Council partners with ORCHA to embed health apps

The programme of work will provide citizens with access to a wide range of quality-checked health apps to help them
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12 May 2021

Boots and Cegedim announced 5-year partnership for pharmacy IT

The contract will see the company continue to provide clinical decision support data and NHS spine connectivity to support Boots
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11 May 2021

Queen’s speech: Government to ‘lay foundations’ for more integrated care

Reiterating plans to embed Integrated Care Systems in law the Queen introduced the Health and Care Bill which aims to
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11 May 2021

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals abandons £400m EPR tender

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals issued the tender in August 2020 but stopped the procurement due to concerns it would not “deliver
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11 May 2021

NHS England to ‘substantially’ widen digital staff passport programme

A prior information notice revealed NHS England and Improvement are looking to expand the digital staff passport programme “as soon
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11 May 2021

Electronic repeat dispensing code saves GPs more than 90,000 hours

When the pandemic hit more GPs were relying on electronic repeat dispensing services to provide patients with up to 12
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10 May 2021

Government ‘must explain how Covid-19 passports will be used’

Professor Eerke Boiten, a professor in cyber security, told Digital Health News that “too little” is known about how Covid-19
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10 May 2021

Patient Access launches Covid-19 passport feature

Users of Patient Access who have requested their medical record from their GP can now find a Covid-19 vaccination status
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