The government has announced that Ming Tang, chief data and analytics officer for NHS England, and Dr Tim Ferris, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will lead the data and technology enabling working…
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Facial recognition technology is being trialled at residential and nursing homes in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes to explore if it can provide better care to patients and reduce reliance…
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The NHS is piloting an iPhone device and app that helps detect throat cancer earlier and give patients the all-clear for the disease faster.
An initial trial on triaged low-risk patients at University Hospitals of…
Sleepio, an evidence-based app that delivers cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTi), is still unavailable to most NHS patients in England despite being recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)…
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NHS England has published a contract notice for “an experienced, multi-skilled, rapid response intervention service”, known as a tiger teams service to support the delivery of electronic patient records (EPRs) across England.
It states that…
Dr Alec Price-Forbes, national chief clinical information officer (CCIO) and Helen Balsdon, national chief nursing information officer (CNIO) have been announced as keynote speakers for Digital Health Rewired 2025.
The two recently appointed NHS England…
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]Join two recently appointed national leaders at Rewired 2025 as they share their plans for the next stage of NHS digitisation.Dr Alec Price-Forbes started his new role as national chief clinical information officer (CCIO) this…
Women in Somerset with breast lumps will be directly referred to a breast diagnostic clinic via the NHS App under a pilot scheme, health secretary Wes Streeting has announced.
Speaking at the Royal College of…
Thousands of children and eligible adults living with type 1 diabetes across England will be able to receive an ‘artificial pancreas’ following cost-effective deals secured by the NHS with the technology’s suppliers.
The Hybrid Closed…
New patient safety guidance from NHS England says that primary care’s IT systems should include clinical decision making support and automatically flag patient safety issues.
The ‘Primary care patient safety strategy’, published by NHSE on…
