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30 October 2019

Why good cyber hygiene can help fight NHS data breaches

NHS Digital's Rob Shaw, talks about the importance of good cyber hygiene to help fight data breaches and security risks
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28 October 2019

Flu vaccine data to be shared between GPs and pharmacies

The pilot in Leeds sees electronic notifications about patients who have had their flu jab in a pharmacy sent to
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21 October 2019

56 newcomers awarded agreements under GP IT Futures

NHS Digital has notified 69 suppliers of the intention to award them contracts under the new, £484 million general practice
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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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Breast Cancer Screening
16 October 2019

Screening IT systems ‘unsafe’ and require ‘urgent’ upgrades, review finds

Current IT systems “cannot support the safe running of screening programmes", Professor Sir Mike Richards found in his review of
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11 October 2019

Rob Shaw announces he will leave NHS Digital at Christmas

NHS Digital's deputy CEO will leave the organisation in December to pursue a consulting career, and joins a growing list
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23 September 2019

NHS Digital launches IT security awareness campaign

The Keep I.T. Confidential campaign aims to educate staff across the NHS on common-sense IT security practice and the impact
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4 September 2019

Hearing and sight loss patients trained to use digital health tools

The project is designed to find out more about the challenges faced by people with hearing and sight loss when
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29 August 2019

Portsmouth becomes first area to fully roll out electronic prescription service

NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is the first in the country to have 100% of their GP practices able
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