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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
12 June 2020

Results of first week of test and trace are in – app is still out

The app was designed to speed up the process of contact-tracing, with epidemiologists previously warning manual contact-tracing would be too
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Image of the NHS Contact-Tracing App
21 May 2020

NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app ‘delayed until June’

Health secretary Matt Hancock had previously said the app would be rolled out by mid-May, as had NHSX chief Matthew
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15 May 2020

Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’

The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app
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7 April 2020

Government criticised for not collecting sex disaggregated Covid-19 data

A Coronavirus Status Checker will be used to collect informationinform the NHS's response to the virus, but it fails to
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11 February 2020

Patient data sent to global drug companies ‘may not be anonymous’

Patients whose medical information is of particular interest to international companies have already been identified, senior NHS officials claimed.
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30 January 2020

Jeremy Hunt to head up health and social care select committee

The former health secretary will lead a group of MPs tasked with scrutinising NHS performance and the policy and expenditure
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21 October 2019

Electronic Prescription Service to be rolled out nationally next month

The service will create a faster and more secure process for clinicians to prescribe and dispense medication, the Department of
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27 September 2019

Boris Johnson pledges £200m for new cancer screening technology

Boris Johnson said the funding will go towards new machines and will be AI enabled to ensure they are AI
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2 September 2019

Full power of innovative technologies ‘will not be achieved’ in no-deal Brexit

The warning comes amid concerns there may be delays in sharing health data between the UK and the EU if
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A female doctor performs a blood pressure test on a male patient
16 August 2019

New ‘intelligent’ NHS health checks to be driven by predictive analytics

The Government has launched a review to explore how data and technology can deliver a new era of intelligent, predictive
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