Matt Hancock

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Hancock RCGP speech
30 July 2020

Hancock: NHS needs to ‘double down’ on tech advances after Covid-19

Speaking about the future of healthcare Matt Hancock told the audience better technology was needed for better healthcare.
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
22 July 2020

Hancock refuses to provide roll-out date for contact-tracing app

When questioned on the progress of the app Hancock told a parliamentary committee it would be rolled-out “as soon as
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Mobile nurses
10 July 2020

Hancock says health service has seen tech uptake ‘like never before’

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has said the Covid-19 pandemic has seen an updake of technology
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Pager
25 June 2020

NHSX publishes £3m tender to help phase out pagers

The solutions must enable secure messaging; image sharing; staff directory linked to the NHS.net address book; and calls.
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NHS Contact-Tracing App
25 June 2020

NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’

Apple and Google's APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing
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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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19 May 2020

Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app

If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
19 May 2020

Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’

It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government
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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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Covid-19 test
12 May 2020

Online portal launched to help care homes access Covid-19 tests

A new online portal which aims to make it easier for care homes to arrange deliveries of coronavirus test kits
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