Digital Health’s 2024 Review: Top 10 news stories
The last 12 months has seen a new government, a major cyber attack on the NHS and a commitment to £2bn tech funding hitting the headlines.
Digital Health News has picked out 10 of the…
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NHS England launches digital clinical safety standards review
NHS England has launched a review of digital clinical safety standards, requesting input from NHS stakeholders, IT manufacturers and those involved in digital risk assessment.
The review is of digital clinical risk management standards…
Medway IT systems yet to be restored after cyber scare
The IT systems at Medway Community Healthcare have not yet been restored following a suspected cyber attack, Digital Health News has learned.
Medway announced on 2 December 2024 that an investigation was ongoing and it…
All 107 stroke centres in England using AI technology, says NHSE
The 107 stroke centres in England are all now utilising AI technology, Darrien Bold, head of elective care at NHS England, has confirmed.
In a blog post published on 5 December 2024, Bold said: “I…
IT systems in Medway disconnected due to ‘suspicious activity’
Medway Community Healthcare (MCH) has announced that it has disconnected its IT systems to “protect patient and staff data” after detecting some “suspicious activity”.
In a statement on its website, published on 5 December 2024,…
Members of data and tech group for 10 year health plan revealed
Malte Gerhold, director of innovation and improvement at The Health Foundation, is one of the data and technology enabling working group members (Credit: The Health Foundation)
Exclusive: Digital Health News can reveal the…
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NHSE to consult on clinical registry data plans following opposition
Exclusive: NHS England will consult on controversial plans to consolidate patient data from England’s clinical registries in a single platform, following opposition from patient groups.
In 2022, NHSE announced that it would combine more…
Two more Liverpool hospitals impacted by Alder Hey cyber attack
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has announced that the cyber attack it suffered on 28 November 2024 has also impacted Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Alder Hey was hit…
NHSE chief nurse Duncan Burton to deliver Rewired 2025 keynote
England’s most senior nurse, Duncan Burton, is the latest high-profile NHS keynote to join the Digital Health Rewired 2025 speaker line-up.
The chief nursing officer for NHS England will speak at Rewired at the NEC…
techUK calls for ring-fenced funding for digital health
IT industry association, techUK has called on the UK government and NHS England to ring-fence funding for digital transformation and cyber resilience in health and social care.
The report ‘Driving Digital Transformation: techUK’s Recommendations for…
