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Network chairs deliver verdict on upcoming NHS tech body mergers

The chairs of the Networks have said streamlining digital bodies across the NHS is a sensible step, but they are
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NHS Digital and NHSX to merge with NHS England

Both NHS Digital and NHSX are to be incorporated into NHS England and Improvement, following recommendations made in the Wade-Gery
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The importance of greening our working lives

Mark Reynolds, NHS Digital’s CTO, discusses the sustainability challenges that face the digital sector and how the organisation plans to
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New standard to improve medicines information sharing set to launch

It is hoped a standardised approach to sharing medicines information will reduce medicines related errors and, ultimately, improve patient safety.
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NHS saves more than 2 million hours using Microsoft Teams

In the first six months Microsoft Teams was used across the health service it replaced 14.5m phone calls and hosted
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New information added to NHS Digital’s cyber security campaign

The Keep IT Confidential cyber security awareness campaign from NHS Digital has been updated with new advice and best practice
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‘Take the workforce with us’ for successful integration

Speaking at day two the Autumn Leadership Summit, Professor Jonathan Benger stressed the importance of workforce involvement in integration.
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ICSs expected to deliver ‘fully costed digital plan by March 2022’

Speaking at Digital Health’s Autumn Leadership Summit, Sonia Patel outlined the next steps of the What Good Looks Like framework
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Digital leaders to work with GP IT suppliers for ‘safe’ prescribing tools

A lack of safe digital prescribing tools could lead to fatal medication errors “linked to poor design of electronic health
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Digital Clinical Safety Strategy a ‘vote of confidence’ in technology

One week ago NHSX published the first of its kind Digital Clinical Safety Strategy – now industry leaders tells us
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