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Hospital scene
13 November 2020

An alternative (re)view of NHS Digital and NHSX

In a column for Digital Health News under an alias, David Boyd, provides some suggestions for the upcoming Wade-Gery review
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Computer in hospital room
6 November 2020

DHSC must still learn the lessons of its failed IT programmes

DHSC and the NHS have a “long way to go" to deal with the legacy of their track record of
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29 October 2020

NHS Covid-19 App updated to improve accuracy and notifications

From today the NHS Covid-19 App will be updated to increase the accuracy of close contact notifications sent out by
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NHS Covid-19 App
5 October 2020

‘Major questions unanswered’ about effectiveness of NHS Covid-19 App

The Health Foundation has raised concerns about the lack of published evidence from the NHS Covid-19 App's pilots, which it
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a care worker makes a house call to a senior client at her home
30 September 2020

Care homes to receive thousands of iPads to tackle loneliness

The Department of Health and Social Care will provide up to 11,000 iPads to care homes to reduce the risk
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Birthday Cupcake
8 July 2020

NHSX turns one: Digital Health News looks back

As NHSX turns one, Digital Health News has looked back on what has happened since the organisation was officially launched.
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
12 June 2020

Results of first week of test and trace are in – app is still out

The app was designed to speed up the process of contact-tracing, with epidemiologists previously warning manual contact-tracing would be too
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Image of the NHS Contact-Tracing App
21 May 2020

NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app ‘delayed until June’

Health secretary Matt Hancock had previously said the app would be rolled out by mid-May, as had NHSX chief Matthew
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15 May 2020

Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’

The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app
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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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