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Will Smart: The NHS has proven it can do digital well

Former NHS England CIO Will Smart discusses IT leadership changes, learning from WannaCry and the future of the GDE and
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‘Jury out’ on NHSX, says head of BCS Health and Care

Kinnear said the picture at the centre was already confused with multiple organisations, with the addition of NHSX muddling this
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McDonald calls for greater honesty and culture change on NHS IT

Joe McDonald said key lessons from NPfIT had not been learned and it remained difficult for local NHS IT leaders
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Cheshire CCGs receive approval to merge in April 2020

NHS Eastern Cheshire, NHS South Cheshire, NHS Vale Royal and NHS West Cheshire will become the first CCGs in Cheshire
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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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New online platform promotes mental health self-care

The platform offers expert mental health advice and practical tips as well as a quiz which provides a personalised action
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More than 100,000 women access records through digital maternity tools

NHS England committed to ensuring digital services replaced clunky paper notes when the Long Term Plan was published in January.
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NHSE publishes toolkit for implementing online GP consultations

The document suggests there’s no “one size fits all” approach to implementing online consultations and encourages practices to learn from
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NHS needs to be ‘slim and simple’ to allow innovation, Donnelly says

Speaking at HETT on 2 October the chief digital officer at NHSE spoke about the importance of working with the
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New patient list rules are a ‘significant undertaking’ for digital providers, Babylon says

Paul Bate, managing director of NHS services for Babylon, told Digital Health News that setting up new patient lists would
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