Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director at NHS England, has been confirmed as the latest keynote speaker for Digital Health Rewired 2025.
Prof Powis’ instrumental work in integrating technology into the NHS includes championing…
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…
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…
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…
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 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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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…
Sleepio, an evidence-based app that delivers cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTi), is still unavailable to most NHS patients in England despite being recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)…
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NHS England has published a contract notice for “an experienced, multi-skilled, rapid response intervention service”, known as a tiger teams service to support the delivery of electronic patient records (EPRs) across England.
It states that…
Dr Alec Price-Forbes, national chief clinical information officer (CCIO) and Helen Balsdon, national chief nursing information officer (CNIO) have been announced as keynote speakers for Digital Health Rewired 2025.
The two recently appointed NHS England…
