Matthew Gould

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20 May 2020

Centralised approach to contact-tracing app ‘based on shaky assumptions’

Privacy expert Polly Sanderson told Digital Health News there were “serious issues” associated with relying on the self-reporting of symptoms.
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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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7 May 2020

Data from NHS contact-tracing app ‘to be kept for research purposes’

NHSX has always maintain that data would be deleted if a user chose to remove the app, but a spokesperson
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Matthew Gould
29 April 2020

NHSX CEO dismisses private sector involvement in contact-tracing app

Matthew Gould has said he wants to “knock on the head” any suggestion that data from the NHS contact-tracing app
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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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Matthew Gould Rewired 2020
4 March 2020

NHSX CEO confirms Aspirants will be announced in waves

Matthew Gould has told delegates at Digital Health Rewired that members of the Digital Aspirant programme will be announced in
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18 February 2020

Baroness Nicola Blackwood steps down as Minister of Innovation

Nicola Blackwood, the minister responsible for innovation and technology in the health sector has stepped down to “pursue new ventures”.
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17 February 2020

NHSX responds to Networks’ letter to get CCIOs and CIOs on trust boards

Matthew Gould and Dr Simon Eccles, CEO and deputy CEO of NHSX, confirmed two new roles would be created to
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12 February 2020

Regulatory sandbox for AI needed to test and build systems, NHSX says

The heads of 12 healthcare regulators and organisations met on January 28 to discuss the role of AI in healthcare
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