26 April 2019

‘Biggest obstacle’ in digitising healthcare is privacy, Wachter warns

Digitising healthcare was “essential” but it will be “incredibly hard” to take advantage of the digital revolution if data can’t
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26 April 2019

St Helens Care goes live with Graphnet shared records system

Social care teams, hospital staff, GPs, mental health workers and other teams now have access to the records of the
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Matt Hancock
25 April 2019

Matt Hancock faces backlash for collaborating on TaxPayers’ Alliance report

The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) report claims £18.5 billion could be saved by 2030 across NHS budgets if more automated services
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25 April 2019

Rotherham NHS FT receives outstanding rating for digital agenda

The trust has made “good progress” with its digital agenda and inspectors saw “evidence of innovative use of technology”, the
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24 April 2019

VR surgical simulator first to receive Royal College accreditation

It’s the first simulation with HapticVR to receive CPD points and will cover the Fundamental Surgery total hip replacement training
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23 April 2019

London ambulance staff to be given real-time access to patient data

The NHS Identity Service pilot will give medics access to crucial information about a patient, without the patient having to
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app round up
19 April 2019

Mobile health and apps news in brief

Our latest apps news roundup features Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust have partnering with Q Doctor to provide video
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18 April 2019

New guidance to safeguard patients issued to online pharmacies

Duncan Rudkin, chief executive of the General Pharmacuetical Council said online services need to be “safe and effective” for patients.
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18 April 2019

Imperial College opens £20m centre to develop dementia-friendly homes

The care research and technology centre joins six national discovery science centres that collectively make up the UK Dementia Research
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17 April 2019

Northern Ambulance Alliances saves £1m using Civica fleet software

The software replaces the existing fleet management systems with a system which is hoped will reduce vehicle costs through more
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