Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, has admitted that there is no set date planned for the NHS to become paperless.
Giving evidence at the Health and Social Care Committee on 29 January 2025,…
Dr Vin Diwakar, national director of transformation at NHS England, will open day two of Digital Health Rewired 2025 with a keynote address on the nation’s priorities and funding. He will speak on the Digital…
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Patients Know Best (PKB) has secured £6 million in funding to scale its personal health record (PHR) platform in the UK and expand internationally.
The platform is reported to be the largest of its kind…
As a practising psychiatrist, Dr Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian for health and social care in England, is acutely aware of the significance of health data for patients.
“Working in psychiatry, people are sharing…
With a new government, more than £2bn promised investment for NHS technology and the forthcoming 10 year health plan, there is a growing sense of anticipation about what lies in store for the digital…
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The government’s focus on a shift from ‘analogue to digital’ offers new promise for the world of NHS digital and technology in 2025. But questions remain unanswered around how this will work in practice,…
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The last 12 months has seen a new government, a major cyber attack on the NHS and a commitment to £2bn tech funding hitting the headlines.
Digital Health News has picked out 10 of the…
During his tenure as head of the Portuguese Digital Health Agency between 2013 and 2020, Henrique Martins was responsible for advancing the nation’s eHealth strategy, including projects such as the health information sharing platform…
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Malte Gerhold, director of innovation and improvement at The Health Foundation, is one of the data and technology enabling working group members (Credit: The Health Foundation)
Exclusive: Digital Health News can reveal the…
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Health tech firm Accurx has published a report calling for NHS England’s modern GP access model to be spread to all practices, to help primary care manage record-level demand with the current GP workforce.
In…
