A review has called for barriers to accessing NHS patient data to be removed so that it can be used for research to further medical advances.
The independent review by Professor Cathie Sudlow, chief scientist…
The government has announced that Ming Tang, chief data and analytics officer for NHS England, and Dr Tim Ferris, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will lead the data and technology enabling working…
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A new bill which will allow patients’ data to be easily transferable across the NHS has been introduced to Parliament.
Delivered by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), the bill will require IT…
Women in Somerset with breast lumps will be directly referred to a breast diagnostic clinic via the NHS App under a pilot scheme, health secretary Wes Streeting has announced.
Speaking at the Royal College of…
“Fixing the basic digital and data infrastructure of the NHS,” is a key national priority, said Vin Diwakar, medical director for transformation at NHS England.
Speaking at the Health Excellence Through Technology (HETT) conference on…
NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have invited comments on proposals for MedTech developers to fast-track products for use by the healthcare system.The plans outlined in the consultation…
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NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have proposed a new route for medical technology developers to access NHS funding to fast-track innovative products for use by the healthcare…
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Messages sent to millions of patients via the NHS App have saved the NHS £1.1 million on the cost of previously sending the information via text message in the last year.During 2023/24, approximately 22.5…
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Recent investment in NHS IT is a vote of confidence in digital leaders but brings with it complex questions about digitisation and its impact, speakers argued during a keynote session at Digital Health Rewired…
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Rewired 2024 provides an unmissable opportunity to hear how NHS leaders are assessing both the progress and challenges of the digital transformation process. Three members of the programme committee for the Digital Transformation Stage,…
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