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A blue ribbon representing cervical cancer awareness week
27 June 2018

GPs urged to make more use of year-old cervical screening tool

NHS Digital has suggested that GPs and health organisations could improve screening rates for cervical cancer by making better use
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25 June 2018

Job ad sheds light on new NHS Digital CICSO role

NHS Digital is on the lookout for a chief information and cyber security officer capable of leading the organisation's response
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A social care nurse speaks to a couple
25 June 2018

12 councils selected by NHS Digital to run social care tech pilots

Twelve councils have been awarded £20,000 each by NHS Digital to explore how digital technologies can improve social care.
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cera
21 June 2018

NHS Digital incentivises firms to bridge info gap between health and social care

Local authorities, adult social care providers, researchers and academic institutions have been invited to apply for a share of £1.58m split
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NHS Confed 18
19 June 2018

NHS Digital programme director: Innovation is not just about ‘chucking an iPad’ at it

In a session at the 2018 NHS Confederation Conference, Cleveland Henry talked about the digital successes and challenges that NHS
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15 June 2018

Hospital trusts bid goodbye to paper as e-RS gathers steam

More than half of all hospital trusts in England - 79 in total - are now using the NHS e-Referral
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Rob Shaw NHS Digital
11 June 2018

NHS Digital deputy chief executive awarded CBE in Birthday Honours 2018

Sarah Wilkinson, Simon Eccles and Will Smart all tweeted their congratulations to Rob Shaw who was recognised for his “services
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Computer failure
8 June 2018

Users left disgruntled after Patient Access website and app go down

Neil Bennett, service director, Live Services at NHS Digital, confirmed that the Patient Access service was 'unavailable' between 3.30pm on
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Juliet Bauer speaks at UK eHealth Week in London on 16 May
23 May 2018

NHS England CDO: First Citizen Identity services to appear within weeks

The first services to use NHS Digital's Citizen Identity system will appear for testing by the end of the month,
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Anne Cooper
18 May 2018

NHS Digital chief nurse ‘stepping down’ as chief medical officer goes part-time

The organisation confirmed Anne Cooper is taking a step back from the role so she can pursue other projects while
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