Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
23 July 2024
11:30 AM
This edition of Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing includes news from the public inquiry into pandemic preparedness.
News
DMA must be ‘useful and usable’, says NHS England CIO
23 July 2024
11:00 AM
John Quinn, chief information officer at NHS England said that the digital maturity assessment (DMA) needs to be “useful and useable”.
University Hospitals Plymouth begins digital prehab trial
23 July 2024
8:30 AM
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is trialling a digital ‘prehab’ service for liver transplant patients.
Queen Victoria Hospital invests £750,000 in CT scanner
22 July 2024
1:30 PM
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has bought a new CT scanner, which is aimed to help reduce diagnostic waiting lists.
Norfolk and Waveney Collaborative approves £88m Meditech EPR
22 July 2024
11:00 AM
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospital Collaborative has signed an £88m contract with Meditech for an electronic patient record system.
Participants praise Digital Health Networks mentoring programme
22 July 2024
8:30 AM
Participants of the Digital Health Networks mentoring programme shared their experiences at a workshop on day one of Summer Schools 2024.
Global IT outage disrupting NHS ’caused by antivirus software’
19 July 2024
12:07 PM
Dr Simon Wallace, CCIO at Microsoft told Summer Schools that a global outage affecting the NHS was identified to antivirus firm CrowdStrike.
Ortivus wins £10m ambulance contract
10 February 2014
Two southern ambulance trusts have awarded a £10m contract to Swedish company Ortivus to provide
Court lifts suspension on NHS Scotland
7 February 2014
An Edinburgh court today lifted a suspension preventing NHS Scotland from awarding a contract for
Patient safety alert system launched
7 February 2014
NHS England has launched a National Patient Safety Alerting System to highlight patient safety risks
Re-identifying care.data illegal
7 February 2014
There is a “theoretical risk” that data released to researchers from the care.data programme could
Better info needed for Francis response
6 February 2014
NHS trusts may be struggling to obtain the information they need to respond effectively to
