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Exploring the rare diseases action plan

In a piece for Digital Health, the minister for patient safety and primary care, Maria Caulfield, explores the recently announced
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Practical steps for using technology to improve patient outcomes

Mike Farrar, a former chief executive of the NHS Confederation, shares 8 practical steps on how technology can help with
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Turning something as ordinary as switching on a kettle into health insight

Dr Haidar Samiei explores how the pandemic has increased the trend for remote health monitoring and can help shape new
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Breaking down the barriers of nursing behind closed doors

Hayley Valentine, a former critical care nurse, explores the challenges ahead for nursing ever larger numbers of patients in their
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No more stop gaps: Why it’s time to change the focus on digital

Victor Adebowale explores what digital transformation needs to look like moving forward and why it is so important to ensure
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NHS funding: £250m to boost access to ‘cutting edge technologies’

It comes as the government introduced a new health and social care tax to raise an extra £36billion for frontline
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GP referral technology cuts hospital appointments by just under two thirds

Data has revealed that GPs who use referral technology to manage patients are able to cut the number of hospital
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Halifax care home keeps Covid-free thanks to nurse call technology

A nursing home in Halifax has credited its innovative nurse call technology for keeping it Covid-free since the virus first
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Digital mental health key to tackling deepening mental health crisis

In an exclusive piece for Digital Health, former MP Norman Lamb, explores why technology can help tackle the growing mental
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Government to trial new tech which can rapidly detect new Covid mutations

Technology which aims to rapidly detect new Covid mutations by indicating whether positive test samples contain known variants is being
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