Pilot to see London paramedics get patient care records on iPad
London Ambulance Service to kit out 60 staff with devices in 16-week trial
Shrewsbury and Telford NHS trust to create £800k data warehouse
Hospital wishes to enable a ‘transparent view of patient care’
Budget Committee could prevent white elephant IT projects, MPs told
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NHS launches child health info digital service for parents and clinicians
Health agencies unite with key suppliers to create tool to make information accessible digitally
NHSX names Whitehall tech bigwig Gould as chief executive
New health-service technology organisation appoints DCMS digital head as leader
Rudd sets four-year timeline for ‘industry-led’ pensions dashboards
Work and pensions secretary outlines detailed plans for online service
‘I don’t accept that ESN failed’ – civil service head
Former Home Office perm sec denies that two of department’s major technology projects were failures
GDS to take flagship Sprint event on the road
Annual digital government gathering expanded into five-city roadshow
Cairngorms golden eagles fitted with satellite tags
Technology aimed at reducing wildlife crime
Hospital WiFi rollout passes 90%
Ubiquitous coverage planned by next year, minister claims
NHS Digital offering up to £85k for data science, business intelligence and visual analytics roles
Experts with Master’s degrees or extensive experience will be considered
Why box-ticking won’t help the NHS achieve our 10-year plan for digital
Sam Shah, director for digital development at NHS England, discusses how single-problem healthtech solutions do not align with the wider health technology vision
DHSC plans £30m refresh of ambulance computing devices
Department plans to install new routers and tablets in emergency vehicles
How Leeds is improving care by breaking out of 'NHS-only systems'
Leeds digital chief Dylan Roberts tells Gill Hitchcock about how the city is joining up records and trying to help 10,000 Loiners get online each year
Interoperability and funding remain barriers to healthcare transformation
The problems facing digital and data initiatives in the NHS are only ‘10% technical’, conference told
Hancock bans pagers from NHS in latest salvo against ageing tech
Following on from his edicts against faxes and letters, health secretary takes aim at another old-school piece of kit
NHSX unit launched to oversee digital, data and technology across health service
New organisation will take the lead on setting national NHS policy on tech, digital, and data
Hancock aims to replace letters with emails across NHS
Health secretary reveals email will be opened up to allow use of ‘any secure email provider’
Top doctors urge parents to limit children’s screen time
Chief medical officers recommend avoiding the use of devices at bedtime and during meals
NHS health screening hampered by ‘complex and ageing IT’
National Audit Office report finds that programmes are impacted by outdated tech
The NHS Long Term Plan – five implications for health tech
Behind the headline focus on digital GP consultations, there were lots of other significant implications for health technology firms in government's recent plan for the future of the health service. Ben Moody of techUK digs into the detail.
Digital social care gets £1m boost
NHS Digital and Local Government Association team up to offer funding to councils
MPs make urgent call for social media regulator
An independent watchdog for online firms should be established ‘as soon as possible’, a select committee has concluded
Government launches £5m digital health fund for UK SMEs
Innovate UK will support projects in areas such as AI and virtual reality