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NHS Hack Day is coming!
16 May 2023

NHS Hack Day returns to Cardiff May 20-21 after three-year absence

NHS Hack Day, an event dedicated to “geeks who love the NHS”, is returning this weekend in Cardiff, following a three-year
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4 August 2022

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS introduces virtual wards

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland NHS is teaming up with Spirit Health to introduce virtual wards allowing people to manage their
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Chelsea and Westminster DERM AI tool
15 February 2022

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital trials AI skin cancer diagnostic tool

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is trialling a new AI-powered tool to help speed up skin cancer diagnosis so prompt treatment
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Technology in medicine
19 January 2022

NICE expected to approve changes to health tech evaluation

NICE is expecting to approve a raft of changes on how it evaluates health tech that will see it evolve
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9 August 2021

Royal Berkshire extends avatar-led interactive programme following pilot

Royal Berkshire has expanded the roll out of an avatar-led interactive programme for people with chronic kidney disease following a
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A nurse tending to a bed at a hospital
31 March 2020

Covid-19: NHS to trial digital passports to free up staff movement

The smartphone-based passports will contain a basic set of credentials that will allow staff to be quickly deployed to different
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29 November 2019

Trust warns of ‘significant risk’ to patients over EPR delays

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says it cannot go ahead with the planned EPR as it is still awaiting
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Cartoon depitcting a crowd of people
22 November 2019

NHS England re-opens HSSF to LHCR and population health suppliers

The update to the framework, published in October, includes a separate lot for suppliers of technologies that fall within a
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A view of the elegant Eastgate Clock in the historic city of Chester in Cheshire, UK
23 October 2019

Cheshire CCGs receive approval to merge in April 2020

NHS Eastern Cheshire, NHS South Cheshire, NHS Vale Royal and NHS West Cheshire will become the first CCGs in Cheshire
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Image of the panel at NHS Expo
5 September 2019

Early adopters ‘should be celebrated as much as innovators’

Hugh McCaughey, national director of improvement, argued there needed to be more incentives and recognition for early adopters.
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