COVID-19

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7 April 2020

Timeline: What happened with the NHS Covid-19 app

Digital Health's senior reporter, Andrea Downey, takes a look at the NHS Covid-19 app, what went wrong during development and
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7 April 2020

Government criticised for not collecting sex disaggregated Covid-19 data

A Coronavirus Status Checker will be used to collect informationinform the NHS's response to the virus, but it fails to
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Microsoft Teams
7 April 2020

Microsoft and NHS Digital to provide new clinical capabilities through Teams

NHS Digital plans to build on its licensing agreement for Microsoft Teams to transform NHSmail into a 'fully featured collaboration
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Graphic of Patientrack reporting tool
2 April 2020

New Covid-19 assessment tool in Patientrack to help staff intervene early

An early warning technology used in NHS hospitals will now help nurses to carry out crucial assessments to help identify
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2 April 2020

New digital service ‘to allow every UK GP surgery to offer remote consults’

Nye Health, a free service that allows GPs to offer remote consultations from any device, integrates with existing systems to
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Coronavirus
2 April 2020

Neither Covid-19 nor cyber-criminals care who gets infected and suffers

With Covid-19 pushing many trusts to their limit, Davey Winder explores why the health service is still an attractive target
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A graphic of the coronavirus virus
2 April 2020

Oxford University launches Covid-19 government response tracker

The Covid-19 Government Response Tracker contains data from 73 countries and records the actions governments have taken in response to
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1 April 2020

Further suppliers for online primary care services during Covid-19 revealed

NHS England has confirmed the successful bidders of further lots in a confidential 48-hour tender for the immediate provision of
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A female doctor texting on a smartphone
1 April 2020

NHS staff given free access to mental health apps amid Covid-19 outbreak

The apps, which include platforms to proactively improve mental health and sleep improvement programmes, will be freely available until December
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Exterior of NHS Nightingale Hospital at the London ExCel centre
31 March 2020

Barts extends Cerner EPR to NHS Nightingale hospital

NHS Nightingale, the temporary London mega-hospital set up to help the NHS cope with coronavirus patients will use Barts Health
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