England’s Patient Safety Commissioner Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE is the latest confirmed keynote for Rewired 2025.Before her national role as independent patient champion Dr Hughes was the National Guardian for the NHS and a…
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is trialling an AI tool which helps identify people at risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF), a condition that makes them five times more likely to have a potentially…
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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…
The main GP software supplier for Scotland, In Practice Systems Limited (INPS), has voluntarily placed itself under administration owing to financial difficulties.
A press release, published by Cegedim on 10 December 2024, said: “Cegedim…
A network of eight GP surgeries in Southampton has improved communication with its its 5,850 non-English-speaking patients through a handheld translation device.
In a real-world validation study between April 2024 and August 2024, in partnership…
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…
Technology to allow faster diagnosis and assessment of skin conditions is being rolled out across primary care in Scotland, starting with Dumfries and Galloway and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Using a secure mobile phone app…
NHS England has announced plans to provide advanced eye scans in the community for people with diabetes, potentially saving up to 120,000 hospital appointments a year and helping to prevent sight loss.
The rollout of…
More than 9,000 automatic letters from hospitals to GPs in Kent were delayed by three weeks due to an error which occurred during an IT upgrade at Kent Community Health Foundation Trust.
The delayed letters,…
GP digital telephony provider X-on Health has acquired Hanley Consulting to strengthen its technology, data analytics and expert services for GP surgeries across the UK and help to end the 8am rush.
X-on Health’s Surgery…
