That was the year that was: 2019
As the year opened, Theresa May was prime minister, Matt Hancock was health and social care secretary, NHS England and NHS Improvement were separate organisations. As the year closed, Brexit had forced a change of...
Manifesto destiny
What are the three main parties really saying about the NHS and funding; and do they have anything to say about IT? As the general election campaign continues, Lyn Whitfield asks what health tech should...
Right on the tiles: Bradford’s command centre
Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s space age command centre, which delivers action-oriented data to hospital and patient management teams, was officially opened this week. The work won the admiration of Highland Marketing’s advisory board...
My Medical Record: how do we spread #HealthTechToShoutAbout?
At its October meeting, Highland Marketing’s advisory board heard from Kevin Hamer, My Medical Record programme manager at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, about its ground-breaking personal health record. The board, which gave MyMR...
Health chat with Roy Lilley and Matthew Gould
The veteran health commentator and the chief executive of NHSX did not agree on much when they met at the King’s Fund, including the direction of health tech policy and whether anything is, in fact,...
Mini budget delivers stability for coming year but not long term
Amid worsening Brexit turmoil, chancellor Sajid Javid delivered a mini budget with a headline £6.2 billion for the NHS. Unfortunately, most of this money has been announced before. Also, it covers a single year, when...
Hancock, redux
The health and social care secretary was widely expected to leave for a new job in Boris Johnson’s first cabinet reshuffle. But he’s back. Lyn Whitfield considers his first year in office, his possible new...
Advisory board round table: NHSX
Ninety days on from the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, the health service has seen some structural and legislative changes – and the announcement of NHSX. At its April meeting, Highland Marketing’s advisory...
Some of our Great Wall is missing
The NHS is moving into another period of reform and reorganisation: but hardly anybody has noticed. Lyn Whitfield reports on NHS England’s proposals for legislative change and its effective merger with NHS Improvement. The last...
To NHS IT, and beyond?
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock is setting up an NHSX unit. It’s hardly the first attempt to set up a central body to sort out IT policy and approach. So will it fly,...
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