Leaders of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have admitted that it has around 500 reports which are “stuck” in its IT platform and cannot be retrieved.
Speaking at the Health Select Committee on the work…
NHS Lothian in Scotland has made an AI-powered physiotherapy clinic available to nearly one million patients across the Lothian region as part of a large-scale pilot.
The AI clinic, called Flok Health, was created using…
As director of innovation and improvement, Malte Gerhold leads the Health Foundation’s work to enable change in health and care services through technology and data.
Yet despite having ‘innovation’ in his job title, he…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has committed to fixing its regulatory platform and provider portal, following the publication of two reviews which identified their “serious adverse impact” on staff and providers.
An interim report, by…
The Care Quality Commission says IT connectivity issues at Solent NHS Trust have compromised patient care.
‘Significant problems’ with IT systems, most notably the provider portal, contributed to failings at Care Quality Commission (CQC),…
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) failed to send out 400,000 digital letters and documents to GPs and patients, some dating back as far as 2000, BBC News reported Saturday. The news follows Newcastle University…
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Newcastle Hospitals said on Tuesday that they are reviewing 24,000 documents from their electronic records after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in the summer identified a number of patient letters that may never…
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Following an initiative launched late last year, six out of 10 care homes and domiciliary care agencies in the Dorset Council area now have electronic records in place, helping to digitise their services and…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and related technology is becoming increasingly prominent in healthcare, and with that comes the need to efficiently regulate and evaluate to ensure that all innovations implemented and adopted within the NHS…
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The Association of Mental Health Providers has created the first-ever England-wide mapping tool to measure mental health service provision, helping to identify gaps in service. Working in partnership with mapping and spatial analysis experts…
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