Trials to monitor smart meter data in elderly care
Scottish institutions to work with consenting older citizens to track energy usage
Hancock a shareholder in family document digitisation firm that won NHS deals
DHSC says health secretary ‘acted entirely properly’
Nine in ten prescriptions now fulfilled electronically
Minister says paper options will remain available
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Booking website crashes minutes after expansion of vaccine programme
All adults aged over 45 can now book an appointment to be immunised
Test and Trace hired £40,000-a-day digital team after failure ‘to source civil servants with these skills’
Procurement data reveals consultancy brought in to cover six-month drive to recruit specialists
More than half of GP appointments now conducted face to face
Thirteen million consultations took place in person in February
NHS workers must be at the centre of technology reform
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Government leases office space around the country to support hybrid working
Model intended to allow for civil servants to mix homeworking with time in the office
DHSC expands Test and Trace cloud support deal to improve data flow
Extra £367k added to deal in support of isolation payments
Government to trial coronavirus ‘status certification’
Plans include use of NHS Covid-19 app to display vaccination or test results
Government plans £5m trial of apps that reward healthy behaviour
Citizens may be financially remunerated for their diet and exercise habits
NHS spends £8.5m on laptops and phones for vaccination programme
Procurement info shows two suppliers were chosen for four-month contract
Leader sought for coronavirus data and analysis unit
Role as director general of Joint Biosecurity Centre offers £130k salary
‘There should be no case’ where lack of digital access presents vaccination barrier – vaccines minister
Nadhim Zahawi pledges that multiple routes will be maintain for contact and bookings
Test and Trace spends £1.2m on user-survey platform
Government invests in customer experience software
MPs find government has ‘presented pandemic data to provoke anxiety, rather than understand risk’
Parliamentary committee calls for more transparency in use of information and accuses Michael Gove of being ‘contemptuous of parliament’
Government consults on potential vaccine passports
Discussions have already taken place about EU scheme offering digital certificates
Outsourcer Sitel shopped to ICO after contact tracers told to use personal emails to share case info
Whistleblower raised concerns about practice that went unheeded
Statistics body calls for review of government use of health data
RSS says pandemic has exposed need for 'culture change' around how stats are used and publicised
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NHS study probes whether algorithms can detect Covid from cough recordings
Government seeks volunteers for research
Government buys £6m of iPads for care homes
Contract covers the delivery of 11,000 devices, plus accessories and upkeep
Data shows big rise in vaccine positivity but demographic disparities remain
ONS research finds 94% are happy to get immunised, but feelings toward the vaccine vary significantly when split by socio-economic group, age and ethnicity