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12 councils selected by NHS Digital to run social care tech pilots

25 June 2018 12:05 AM

Twelve councils have been awarded £20,000 each by NHS Digital to explore how digital technologies can improve social care.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital to feature in NHS 70 programme

22 June 2018 2:00 PM

The programme will highlight how the trust is using the digital Wirral Care Record, to overcome the health and social care challenges being faced.

Q Doctor selects Docman Connect for GP correspondence delivery

22 June 2018 11:00 AM

The solution from Docman will streamline the service’s document transfer and ensure that Q Doctor can send consultation summaries to GPs within 48 hours.

Cyber security news round-up

22 June 2018 12:05 AM

The latest Digital Health cyber security round-up includes news that Dixons Carphone has been hit by yet another cyber-attack, as well as a report from Symantec that suggests a Chinese espionage group may have breached the control systems of a satellite operator.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has stop reporting RTT after problem migrating data to its new electronic patient record.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS FT selects CareWorks for new EPR

21 June 2018 2:00 PM

The trust issued a tender for a new EPR in September 2017 and currently runs Civica’s Paris EPR, which was deployed in 2011 on a seven-year-contract.

Doctor’s union chairman calls for GP at Hand to be “scrapped immediately”

21 June 2018 11:00 AM

Doctors in Unite (DiU) has accused the service of eroding the personal relationship between GP and patient, and of “hoovering up” younger patients.

NHS Digital incentivises firms to bridge info gap between health and social care

21 June 2018 12:05 AM

Local authorities, adult social care providers, researchers and academic institutions have been invited to apply for a share of £1.58m split into three “streams” to fund new means of digitising the flow of information between adult social care and health settings.