Ming Tang, interim chief digital and information officer (CDIO) at NHS England, will headline Digital Health Summer Schools 2025 as national keynote.
Tang has co-chaired a 10-year health plan working group and led the federated…
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is running user acceptance testing for a Referral to Treatment (RTT) clinical letters validation tool on the federated data platform (FDP).
The tool is designed to streamline RTT…
Dr Charlotte Refsum is a passionate advocate for the power of the single patient record to transform health systems.
After starting her career as a GP, a role at KPMG took her to visit…
The Chief Data and Analytics Officers Network (CDAON) has questioned whether the NHS federated data platform (FDP) is capable of supporting support local health systems.
An open letter to Ming Tang, chief data and analytics…
A cancer diagnostic pathway management service is among the new products running on the federated data platform (FDP) to launch in 2025, NHS England has announced.
The FDP brings together data currently held in separate…
Digital health leaders have given a mixed reaction to streamlined priorities announced by NHS England, which focus on reducing elective waiting times and increasing access to urgent and emergency care.
The 2025/26 priorities and operational…
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…
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…
One year after the launch of NHS England’s federated data platform (FDP) many of the initial concerns about its adoption have proven unfounded, argues Matthew Taylor, chief executive of NHS Confederation.
A year is a…
Hospital trusts using the NHS federated data platform (FDP) have each treated on average 114 more inpatients in theatres every month since introducing the tool, according to NHS England.
Data published on 22 November 2024…
