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Digital training ‘should be embedded in clinical curricula’

More needs to be done to ensure appropriate digital training or risk a “knowledge gap” between current and future staff,
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Healthcare professionals gather to discuss all things OpenEHR

OpenEHR day, held in London on 28 October, offered an introduction to the specification and its potential for facilitating interoperability
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Flu vaccine data to be shared between GPs and pharmacies

The pilot in Leeds sees electronic notifications about patients who have had their flu jab in a pharmacy sent to
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Liverpool rolls out city-wide telemedicine service to care homes

Immedicare's telemedicine platform provides care home residents with 24-hour access to clinicians based at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust in Yorkshire.
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‘Unacceptable delays’ see Microtest lose NHS Wales GP contract

Microtest had been contracted to deliver its clinical systems to Welsh GPs after being awarded onto Wales’s primary care IT
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Digital leaders debate best of breed approach to NHS IT

The event sought to determine whether 'best of breed' approaches could deliver the same level of digital maturity as 'big
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Industry news in brief

This month's industry round-up features news Sheffield Teaching Hospitals has deployed a trust-wide data management system.
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NHSX removes job advert amid criticism it excludes BAME applicants

The role was advertised on 15 October but taken down two days later after some pointed out on Twitter that
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System C and Graphnet Care Alliance to be headline sponsor for Rewired

Following the success of last year, System C and Graphnet will be back as the main sponsor of both days
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The NHS is not ready for the next generation of doctors

Dr Lydia Yarlott, NHS Paediatrician and co-founder of Forward Health, delves into why she believes a lack of technology might
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