NHS Digital commits £1.5m to help data sharing between health and social care
Funding to be made available in three streams, addressing current and potential uses of digital technology
Cambridge NHS trust signs £100m IT deal
Belfast-based IT company Novosco picked for seven-year engagement
How Skype is ending isolation for NHS staff in Wales
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Leicester City Council to roll out body-worn cameras to deter assaults on frontline staff
City looks for supplier to provide as many as 200 devices to record incidents
‘The death ray was optional’ – what public-service robots looked like in 90s
Hospital shines a light on long-forgotten tale of its ‘most unusual employee’
NHS kicks off £4m digitisation of pension scheme
Supplier sought for two-year project to provide health-service workers and employers with digital platform
How digital therapy is helping NHS patients in Lincolnshire
The head of Lincolnshire's steps2change service tells PublicTechnology about its use of online CBT and how the digital therapy landscape might evolve
AI will save lives of 22,000 cancer patients a year, prime minister announces
Theresa May uses speech in Macclesfield to announce plans to work with technology sector and NHS to improve diagnoses
NHS Digital creates £1m adult social care fund
Local authorities given chance to bid for slice of funding
Lincolnshire to create online directory of care services
Suppliers sought to build and support digital resource
Using IT to unblock beds in Kent
Kent County Council’s care leaders tell Gill Hitchcock about the IT system which flags pressures on services, identifies spare capacity, and helps avoid a crisis
DWP seeks ‘innovative solutions’ for benefit-payment disruption
Department kicks off early-engagement exercise for new system of managing problems
NHS £150m Microsoft deal will banish Windows XP
Health secretary announces investments in cybersecurity, including pledge to install Windows 10 across the board by 2020
'Now, 65p of every pound we spend is invested back into Manchester'
Manchester City Council's CIO Bob Brown talks to PublicTechnology about the authority's transformation agenda and how it is ensuring the money it spends on IT goes back into the city
NHS explores options for training staff on AI and robotics
Prominent US cardiologist Dr Eric Topol is to lead a review
County Durham and Darlington becomes latest NHS trust to achieve paperless referrals
Ahead of the 1 October deadline, a growing band of trusts have gone fully electronic – but overall utilisation rate is still at 70%
NHS to roll out nudge theory digital traffic light system for hospital referrals
GPs across England to get tool to help direct patients to hospitals with sufficient capacity
Quartet of clinicians start NHS Digital secondment scheme
Organisation picks first cohort of fellows to take part in new programme
Government’s lack of action on WannaCry is ‘alarming’ – PAC
Report from MPs says that, a year on from the cyberattack, government and the NHS must now take action
MPs raise ‘serious concerns’ about NHS Digital's use of patient data
Select committee repeats request to stop sharing with the Home Office the name and address of suspected immigration offenders, but NHS Digital insists arrangement is ‘in the public interest’
DHSC takes to Twitter to canvas public opinion on organ donation
Department uses social-media conversation as part of consultation on potential move to opt-out model
Hackney to build prototype tool for ‘contextual’ approach to child safeguarding
London borough looks for supplier to help create platform for logging and analysing data on school, peer group, and neighbourhood
One in four people now use online GP services
The number of patients using an online account has grown 42% in the last year
Government seeks major city to lead large-scale urban 5G test project
Conurbation of about 500,000 inhabitants sought to examine use of 5G-enabled tech in business and public services