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
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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National Audit Office report finds that programmes are impacted by outdated tech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
Armed Forces and NHS Digital explore electronic transfer of GP records
Army hopes that recruitment process can be sped up by improved data sharing
How to deliver transformative NHS improvements at speed
Jonathan Lofthouse of Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust gives his eight-point action plan for implementing technology – and reaping its benefits – as quickly as possible
DfT launches online applications for Blue Badges
Department unveils end-to-end digital service for applying for disability parking permits
NHS chief digital officer Bauer to join video GP firm
Tara Donnelly of Health Innovation Network to step into CDO role
All patients to be offered remote GP consultations within five years
Newly published NHS Long Term Plan sets out government ambition for ‘digital-first primary care’
New £450m framework will break GP IT systems duopoly, Hancock claims
Health secretary claims the GP IT Futures deal will break dominance of EMIS and TPP
The biggest stories of 2018 – part two
We revisit the big news and major events from the second half of 2018
The biggest stories of 2018 – part one
We take a look back at the major developments that shaped the first half of the year
The three public sector technology trends that will define 2019
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the topics and trends that will dominate the year ahead, and revisits the predictions of a year ago to see any of them came to pass
Councils picked for geospatial data funding
Quartet of projects will receive backing from the Open Data Institute
Government seeks new major projects chief
IPA chief executive Tony Meggs is departing to take a post at Crossrail
Why the NHS needs to ‘take the lead’ on sharing data with the private sector
A study from Reform finds a haphazard patchwork of data-sharing being led at a local level. The think tank’s director of research Eleonora Harwich tells PublicTechnology why a national strategy is needed
Bidding opens on £5bn Network Services 2 framework
Second iteration of comms and networking procurement vehicle adds three new lots and more than doubles in value
Matt Hancock bans fax machines from the NHS
Trusts will no longer be allowed to purchase the technology from January
MoJ digital chief: ‘Prisons have been bypassed by the digital revolution – that is our next really big challenge’
Tom Read, CDIO at the Ministry of Justice, talks to PublicTechnology about how he believes technology and digital services could help turn prisons from a ‘Victorian dungeon to a rehabilitative space’
‘Software issue’ with supplier blamed for massive NHSmail outage
Health-service workers were shut out of their accounts for large parts of Saturday