The NHS Confederation’s annual conference took place in Manchester. Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock was busy elsewhere, as the Conservative Party leadership race heated up; but think-tanks warned that whoever emerged in charge...
The NHS published an interim version of the NHS People Plan. Immediate action will be taken to recruit more nurses. Matthew Gould, the incoming chief executive of NHSX, wrote a blog about the NHS App....
Matt Hancock gave a speech on the NHS and technology, in which he formally launched the GP IT Futures contract that will replace the GP Systems of Choice contract. He also renewed his commitment to...
The Commons’ public accounts committee criticised the state of national screening programmes and warned that their IT was “unfit for purpose.” Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust announced that it was going to implement an electronic...
The Department of Health published a heatwave plan, warning that climate change made it imperative to protect children, vulnerable and elderly people and to make sure the health and care system could cope. The Institute...
Matthew Swindells, the deputy chief executive of NHS England, will leave in July. Swindells, who has a long history of interest in NHS IT, is going to contract for Accenture. His departure came as Richard...
US digital doctor professor Robert Wachter gave an interview to Wired three years after he was asked to review NHS IT by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt. He identified cost, long-payback periods and privacy as...
April passed without a social care paper being published; missing the latest deadline to be floated by health and social care secretary Matt Hancock. The green paper, originally promised for summer 2017, is seen as...
As the country broke up for the Easter break, the Commons public accounts committee issued a worried report about the financial sustainability of the health service; highlighting deteriorating local finances and the ongoing staffing crisis...
As the latest Brexit deadline came and went, the Health Foundation published a report showing the scale of capital to revenue transfers in the cash-strapped NHS and the impact this is having on maintenance, investment...
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