Confed wants e-mental health strategy

The Department of Health and NHS England should create a national strategy for e-mental health and invest in a national
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Walsall misses BAU target with Lorenzo

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust continues to work on stabilising its Lorenzo electronic patient record system after going live in March
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Hunt extends Challenge Fund by £100m

The government will extend its £50m primary care Challenge Fund by a further £100m, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
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Keogh calls for TECS support

Sir Bruce Keogh has called on 250 stakeholders to support the uptake of telehealth and telecare as part of the
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Brighton rocked by IT systems crash

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust declared a major incident last week after it lost access to clinical IT
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An app for the skinny on skin cancers

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have created an app to improve early diagnosis of skin cancer.
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Link consumer tech to health IT – Newton

More interoperability is needed between consumer health technology and NHS systems, Public Health England’s chief innovation officer John Newton has
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Staffordshire and Stoke goes to RiO

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust has chosen Servelec Healthcare as its preferred EPR supplier, and hopes to
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Hull delays Lorenzo go-live until 2015

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has delayed the go-live of its Lorenzo electronic patient record system until April
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Trusts must comply with data standards

NHS England will use “carrots and sticks” to get trusts to comply with data standards and infrastructure requirements, says Tim
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