Tag: NHS England
NHSE CIO calls for trusts to stop developing their own data centres
NHS England chief information officer (CIO) John Quinn has urged trusts to stop investing in developing their own local data centres and instead move to cloud solutions.
Speaking at a regional conference of NHS IT…
Mike Fell: taking security out of the shadows
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]Before his role as executive director of national cyber security operations at NHS England, Mike Fell spent 15 years in a variety of government security roles which included postings from Afghanistan to Zanzibar and…
NHSE announces digital eye screening plans for diabetes patients
NHS England has announced plans to provide advanced eye scans in the community for people with diabetes, potentially saving up to 120,000 hospital appointments a year and helping to prevent sight loss.
The rollout of…
‘Ping and book’ cancer screening service to launch via NHS App
Women will be sent invitations for cancer screening via the NHS App as part of a new “ping and book” service, Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England has announced.
A service to alert women…
Buckinghamshire trust to receive £71.2m for digital infrastructure
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has received approval on funding from NHS England for £71.2 million investment in digital infrastructure over the next 10 years.
The trust is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community…
Tang and Ferris to lead data and tech group for 10 year health plan
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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Facial recognition tech for pain management trialled in Bedfordshire
Credit: PainChek UK Ltd.
Facial recognition technology is being trialled at residential and nursing homes in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes to explore if it can provide better care to patients and reduce reliance…
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UK government to create surveillance system for future pandemics
The UK government has announced plans to create a real-time surveillance system to monitor the threat of future pandemics and prevent disease.
A partnership between the government, Genomics England, UK Biobank, NHS England, and Oxford Nanopore…
NHS pilots iPhone device for throat cancer detection
The NHS is piloting an iPhone device and app that helps detect throat cancer earlier and give patients the all-clear for the disease faster.
An initial trial on triaged low-risk patients at University Hospitals of…
