NHS England has increased the value of a contract with supplier IBM for additional work on the NHS App to support the government’s NHS App programme.
IBM was initially awarded a contract worth £52.4m in…
Amanda Pritchard has announced that she will “stand aside” from the role of chief executive of NHS England at the end of March 2025.
In a letter to Richard Meddings, NHSE chair and Wes Streeting,…
Patients Know Best (PKB) and myTomorrows have partnered to enable UK patients with unmet medical needs to access their health records and conduct more efficient searches for further treatment options.
Under the partnership, which was…
The King’s Fund has called for digital healthcare platforms, including the NHS App, to be more responsive and allow for two-way communications.
A report ‘Lost in the system: the need for better admin’, published by…
How patients see test results in an NHS App screen (Image provided by Patients Know Best)
A partnership between health tech startup PocDoc and personal health record and patient engagement platform Patient’s Know Best…
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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…
Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, England’s patient safety commissioner (Credit: Photographs by Photographer London)
Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, England’s patient safety commissioner, will speak on day two of Digital Health Rewired 2025 with a keynote…
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NHS England has awarded a contract worth £37.5 million to technology consultancy firm BJSS Limited to help develop the NHS App.
A contract award notice published on 22 January 2025 states that BJSS will deliver…
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,…
The government has announced a new package of AI tools, nicknamed ‘Humphrey’ to streamline the NHS and other public services.
A team of expert AI developers from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) built…
