NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has published a contract notice for the Digital Workplace Solutions 2 framework, worth £2.5 billion.
The framework is intended to connect NHS organisations and public sector buyers that wish…
“Fixing the basic digital and data infrastructure of the NHS,” is a key national priority, said Vin Diwakar, medical director for transformation at NHS England.
Speaking at the Health Excellence Through Technology (HETT) conference on…
Beverley Bryant, former director of digital transformation at NHS England, and joint chief digital information officer at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS FT, is undertaking a rapid…
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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) has announced plans to implement the Epic electronic health record (EHR),…
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The cyber attack on pathology provider Synnovis could have been prevented by two-factor authentication, according to Beverley Bryant, strategic advisor in the frontline digitisation team at NHS England.
Speaking at the HETT conference on 24 September…
As of September 2024, more than half of acute trusts, 75 in total, have signed up to the NHS federated data platform (FDP), surpassing the initial target of 71 trusts by the end of…
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Dr Alec Price-Forbes has been appointed as the national chief clinical information officer (CCIO) and Helen Balsdon as the national chief nursing information officer (CNIO).
The appointments have yet to be officially announced, but Digital…
Three of the UK’s stand-out pioneers in applying AI, machine learning and data analytics to healthcare have been confirmed as speakers at Digital Health Rewired 2025.
Dr Dominic Pimenta, Dr Joe Zhang, and Ming Tang…
The charity Pancreatic Cancer UK has launched an online tool for families who have lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer to assess their risk of inheriting the disease.
Supported by NHS England, the family…
NHS England has been informed by lawyers that key aspects of its federated data platform (FDP) lack a legal basis, meaning that unless it can find a solution, citizens must be allowed to opt…
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