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...
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,...
The long-awaited Topol Review of how technology will impact on the NHS workforce has been published. It ranges over topics as diverse as the ethics of data analysis and the nature of intelligence. Which may...
The inimitable health commentator interviewed the health and social care secretary at the end of January. Lyn Whitfield went to hear them discuss politics, NHS priorities, and what Hancock’s obvious interest in technology is likely...
The first meeting of Highland Marketing’s reconstituted advisory board discussed the NHS Long Term Plan and what will be needed to make it a success. Leadership, investment spent on the right things at the right...
Prime minister Theresa May and NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens launched the long-awaited NHS Long Term Plan on Monday. There is a lot to like in a document that lays out a new service...
Brexit will continue to cause short-term upset in UK politics, but it is long-term trends that will shape the NHS and the health tech market in 2019 and beyond. Highland Marketing and its advisors look...
Brexit, money, a big anniversary and the promise of a long-term plan, winter pressures and summer pressures, a new health secretary, “interoperable data standards”, and national apps. Lyn Whitfield looks back over the NHS and...
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his Budget on Monday so he didn’t have to deliver it on Halloween. The event was still haunted by the ghost of the NHS birthday present and the spectre of the...
The health service was promised a £20 billion ‘birthday present’ for NHS70. Now, a ten-year plan is being developed to work out how to spend the money. Lyn Whitfield asks what we know so far,...
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