Staff at two hospitals in the south west of England have resorted to using paper after a major IT incident just days before the planned resident doctors’ strikes.
Cheltenham and Gloucester NHS Foundation Trust reported…
The British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that allowing patients to book online GP appointments throughout the day could cause a spike in doctors’ workloads and create waiting lists.
Under changes to the GP contract…
The British Medical Association (BMA) has advised that GPs should pause the use of AI scribing tools unless they have carried out data protection and safety checks.
Government guidance, published in April 2025, encourages NHS…
NHS England has paused development of a generative AI model capable of predicting future health outcomes after doctors raised concerns about the use of GP patient data.
The model, called Foresight, trained on de-identified NHS…
Patients will be able to request GP appointments online from October 2025, under changes to the GP contract.
The deal agreed on 27 February 2025 between the government and the British Medical Association (BMA) aims…
Agenda for Change staff at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust moved to e-rostering in 2018, but medics were still managing their schedules on spreadsheets – a significant barrier to consistency and efficiency.
The…
“Fixing the basic digital and data infrastructure of the NHS,” is a key national priority, said Vin Diwakar, medical director for transformation at NHS England.
Speaking at the Health Excellence Through Technology (HETT) conference on…
The British Medical Association’s (BMA) GP Committee (GPC) has warned that NHS England could use cloud-based telephony data to performance manage GP practices.GP practices were required to provide digital telephony data on eight metrics…
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