As it prepares to integrate NHS England, the health department is seeking a new top official for digital and data matters, who will help create and deliver a tech roadmap […]...

After MPs suggested government was treating digital as a silver bullet for elective care improvements, DHSC has acknowledged that tackling waiting lists ‘requires organisational and cultural change, not just technology’ […]...

Health secretary Streeting says that securing the future of the health service ‘demands revolution’, including the use of a new digital platform to conduct thousands of patient consultations every day […]...

A new tech system is designed to support hospitals’ planning by collating and analysing info on typical hospital admissions, as well as data in areas including forecasts for upcoming weather […]...

New platform will analyse information and issue amber or red alerts when specialist units are understood to be facing an urgent risk requiring attention or assessment in the near future […]...

A newly released leadership assessment indicates major upgrade and transformation project is on course to hit its specified targets, although much work remains to be done in the final weeks […]...

Yesterday’s fiscal exercise includes an extra injection of funding for health tech, with a particular focus on enabling the NHS’s smartphone program to be the default front door for services […]...

A report newly published by the global expert body has found that ‘the technology is moving faster than our ability to govern it’, and calls for nations to legislate accordingly […]...

After awarding a contract to Indian outsourcer Infosys last month, the health service has now released further commercial details and information on implementation and intended functionality of ‘future workforce’ platform […]...

Ministers north of the border have published a strategy setting out measures intended to help increase skills across business and public sector entities, as well as better anticipating potential threats […]...