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17 May 2019

NHS organisations to be offered discounted access to cloud services

It is hoped the new model will help trusts, CCGs and other bodies move their IT services towards cloud-first data
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16 May 2019

NHS 111 online hits one million triage since 2017 launch

Data from NHS Digital revealed the most common symptoms for which people use NHS 111 online are related to abdominal
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15 May 2019

Technological and information sharing allow nurses to take the lead

To mark International Nurses' Day Caron Swinscoe, NHS Digital’s acting chief nurse, encouraged nurses to continue taking the lead on
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7 May 2019

Digital health hub to be scaled up across England after successful pilot

After its successful pilot in Nailsea, Somerset, it’s to be expanded in North West London, the Wirral, Blackburn, Middlesbrough and
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Midwife and mother
3 May 2019

‘Digital midwives’ open up about role challenges and hopes for the future

The digital maternity team at NHS Digital hosted a conference where 86 digital midwives got together to share their knowledge
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24 April 2019

NHS Digital enters five-year partnership with GS1 UK

The partnership between the organisation and GS1 UK, will start with patient wristbands and extend to location management.
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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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Happy Children
17 April 2019

Digital service which gives access to child health information is launched

NHS Digital and NHS England have worked with IT suppliers to create the National Events Management Service to allow access
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People using app
9 April 2019

Evaluation reveals how users and clinical staff view the NHS App

The aim of the evaluation was to use the feedback to improve patient experience of the app and to plan
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The NHS cervical cancer screening contract is to be removed from Capita and brought back in house
5 April 2019

‘Unsatisfactory’ Capita to be stripped of cervical screening contract

NHS chief executive Simon Stevens said the health service had “not been satisfied” with the way Capita had handled the
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