George Freeman

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9 October 2018

Ex-minister speaks of ‘horror’ of having to digitise the NHS with no plan

George Freeman said his self-proclaimed ‘horror story’ highlights how "top down" solutions never work and that the answer is 'local
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22 July 2016

Blackwood handed health IT

Nicola Blackwood has been handed responsibility for health IT in the post-Brexit shake-up of government.
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3 March 2016

‘Stars are aligned’ for health IT – Freeman

Health ministers are “completely behind” the digitisation of health and social care because “it is urgent for personal care, it
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3 March 2016

Joe’s view of lava lamps (and the Great North Care Record)

Joe McDonald says the NHS is like a lava lamp: constantly changing in response to political heat. But healthcare economies
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16 February 2016

Minister to give keynote at digital health summit

Life sciences minister George Freeman and National Information Board interim chair John Newton are amongst the keynote speakers at a
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25 January 2016

£1B question answered “shortly”: Freeman

EXCLUSIVE: Details of how the government will invest more than £1 billion on digitising the NHS over the next five
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25 January 2016

Interview: George Freeman

The life sciences minister’s vision is that “every patient is a research patient”. For that to happen, he tells Digital
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