Health Secretary takes aim at AI critics and declares war on NHS bureaucracy
Matt Hancock has this week said that it is a false choice to prioritise ‘fixing the plumbing’ over ‘forging ahead’ - he states that the NHS should be doing both.
Healthcare transformation
A lesson in digital direction from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Major NHS trust digital leader on digitising the health sector in the age of austerity in UK healthcare
Northern Care Alliance looks to create a long-term platform for digital transformation
CIO Tracey Watson is taking a controlled approach to technological change that she hopes will help her organisation to overcome some complex challenges.
London Ambulance CIO on driving technology change for blue light services
Two and a half years into a change programme and London Ambulance CIO says IT is in great health.
NHSX Director - “Those legacy systems exist for a reason”
Dr Sam Shah, Director of Digital Development at the recently created central digital unit for the NHS - NHSX - spoke about the need to include all users in the digital changes across the health service.
NHSX officially opens for business
Health Secretary Matt Hancock and NHSX CEO Matthew Gould officially launched the new technology unit for the health service this week.
NHSX exercises spend control powers and reduces NHS transformation programmes from 30 to 10
The newly formed digital unit for the NHS, dubbed NHSX, is thinking about how it can adopt standards and a platform approach to digital change across the health service.
NHS Glasgow turns to AI and wearables to improve treatment of lung disease
The NHS board is using the Microsoft Azure platform to send patient data from their home directly to medical staff to cut down on emergency hospital visits
NHS Trust talks up the benefits and cost savings of Robotic Process Automation across the health service
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust says savings it has started to see via automation can and should be replicated right across the Health Service
How one NHS Trust saved hundreds of thousands of pounds with a new agency workforce app
Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation NHS Trust says it’s reduced nursing agency overhead 13.5% through a new staff app
NHS digital round-up - NHS App focuses on APIs and London Trusts launch £3bn framework
There was also an interesting guest post this week on the GDS blog about how NHS Digital is adapting the GOV.UK design system for the health service.
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust leads successful Southwestern migration to HSCN
Nine organisations complete a move off NHS N3 to the new Health and Social Care Network
Great Ormond Street Hospital aims to become a data analytics business
The internationally renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital is partnering with Microsoft to rethink the way it carries out healthcare for children.