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The Download: Can NHSX unpick the digital quango tangle?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Ben Heather in confidence here.
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Higher safety hurdle needed for health apps – Hancock
Regulators need to demand more evidence that health apps are safe for use in the NHS, the health and social care secretary has said
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Hancock promises industry ‘open door’ at NHSX
The health secretary’s new digital unit, NHSX, will have an “open door policy” with industry, and be tasked with working more closely with tech companies to improve NHS IT.
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New chair announced for ICS
An integrated care system in the south west of England has appointed Nick Relph as interim chair.
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Departing tech boss barred from lobbying for six months
A senior NHS England digital executive will be barred from lobbying government for six months after taking a job at a digital health company, NHS England has said in response to concerns raised by MPs.
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GP at Hand cleared to expand to second city
Controversial digital practice GP at Hand has been cleared to expand into its second city after NHS England lifted its objection.
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CQC to inspect triage app use
The Care Quality Commission will inspect the safe use of triage apps in the NHS after receiving legal advice.
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Regulator quits central IT plans after Hancock's Google intervention
The Care Quality Commission has pulled out of a joint plan to replace central IT systems after Matt Hancock intervened and suggested switching to Google.
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Training needed to stop patient risk from AI and robots - review
The NHS needs to drastically boost its ability to asses new digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and genomics, or risk entrenching health inequities and harming patients, according to a government review.
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The Download: How many flowers should bloom?
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New GP contract will cut income for ‘digital first’ providers
NHS England has confirmed changes to the GP contract that will reduce funding for digital provider GP at hand from April this year.
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CCG backs downgrade of 'temporarily closed' A&E
Commissioners are set to approve the permanent downgrade of the A&E department at the country’s smallest hospital trust.
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CCG orders trust to axe 'unaffordable' waiting list blitz
Commissioners have told a local hospital trust to close a temporary operating theatre opened to reduce elective waits because it was proving too expensive.
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NHSE tech exec 'categorically ignored' rival provider, MP claims
An MP on the health committee said he had received a complaint from a tech company that said they had been “categorically ignored” by the NHS England director at the centre of a revolving door controversy.
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Summary care record to be replaced, says NHS digital chief
The national summary care record system will be replaced by more detailed national “longitudinal” patient records for direct care, planning and research, Matthew Swindells has said.
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Revealed: New central IT system could 'jump start' backward trusts
NHS England is considering funding a nationally-available electronic patient record system, to help dozens of trusts still heavily reliant on paper to catch up.
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Merge more health quangos, says Lord O’Shaughnessy
A recently departed health minister has called for the merging of more national health bodies, and said fragmentation at the centre is slowing down much-needed transformation.
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CQC appoints first chief digital officer
The Care Quality Commission has appointed its first chief digital officer, who will have executive responsibility for transforming IT.
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The Download: The revolving tech door
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Exclusive: Hancock's 'NHSX' power grab for NHS England work
Matt Hancock is pushing to create a new digital unit in government – labelled “NHSX” – which would give him more direct oversight of national strategy currently controlled by NHS England, HSJ has learnt.