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New app wants to digitise NHS locum staff pools

27 September 2018 11:00 AM

The doctor duo behind a new app reckon it could cut £500m of annual NHS recruitment spend by digitising locum booking systems.

Swedish authorities complete assessment of Natural Cycles app

27 September 2018 12:05 AM

Natural Cycles was referred to Sweden’s Medical Products Agency after a hospital discovered a number of unwanted pregnancies among women who relied on it.

The NHS app will offer a range of features at launch, so claims NHS England

NHS App to launch to nationwide private beta testers tomorrow

26 September 2018 2:10 PM

Juliet Bauer revealed that the NHS App will offer health triaging, appointment booking, repeat prescriptions and access to medical records upon launch.

Suppliers appointed to NHS England’s Health Systems Support Framework

26 September 2018 11:00 AM

Allscripts, Orion Health and Cerner have all be appointed to various lots of the framework which aims to support the delivery of population health management solutions.

A shot of Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol

FHIR spreads to Bristol as Connecting Care embraces open standard

26 September 2018 12:05 AM

Bristol City Council is using a Care Connect FHIR API to link its substance abuse management system with the city’s shared care record programme.

NHS Digital CEO says healthcare is ‘entering the self-service era’

25 September 2018 2:00 PM

Sarah Wilkinson also praised health and social care secretary Matt Hancock during her keynote speech at the UK Health Show, saying he ‘gets standards’.