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NHS leaders accused of ‘pie in the sky’ finance plans

The chair of the PAC has accused NHS leaders of “making pie in the sky assumptions” about the health service's
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NHS ‘to do’ list puts IT and funding focus on STPs

The NHS Shared Planning Guidance, published today three months’ earlier than usual, indicates local NHS IT funding will be delivered
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Jeremy Hunt retains post as health secretary

Jeremy Hunt has retained his post as health secretary in the re-shuffle triggered by Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister.
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Local digital roadmaps: a long way to go, not much time to get there

Isabel Lobo, senior healthcare analyst at NHS Providers, discusses some of the issues raised by a survey of trust informatics
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Innovation test beds: doing IT at scale

In its ‘Five Year Forward View’, NHS England announced that it would set up test beds to test out new
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Surrey and Borders runs dementia tech RCT

Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust is leading a collaboration to test technologies designed to enable dementia patients to live
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First free NHS wi-fi targets outlined at NIB meeting

The National Information Board was given an update on the timetable to deliver health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s promise of free
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Leadership summit: full steam ahead?

The first Digital Health Leadership Summit heard the government wants to create the ‘railroad’ over which local IT services can
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Hunt announces £4.2 billion for NHS IT

The government will spend £4.2 billion on NHS technology over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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IT funds to come from transformation pot

NHS England has indicated that it wants to stop running tech funds and to start allocating money to IT from
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