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HSJ PartnersDeploying technology to enhance legal compliance of the MCA
Paul Wilkins explores the scope of digital technology in helping to protect the human rights of the most vulnerable in society
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HSJ Partners
Attain and SIMUL8 launch free covid-19 ICU preparation simulation
Attain, the UK’s largest independent health advisory and delivery organisation, have teamed up with leading software developers SIMUL8 to provide a free covid-19 intensive care unit preparation simulation. Written by The covid-19 ICU preparation simulation, which can be downloaded here from SIMUL8, is designed to ...
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News
Video GP provider reveals plans to partner with 111
A digital GP service has revealed plans to partner with NHS 111 and provide callers with the option of having a remote appointment.
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Comment
Meeting the emotional needs of staff using virtual support meetings
Delivering virtual Schwartz Rounds alongside other staff support approaches amidst this covid environment is not only achievable but can be powerful and effective, say authors Paula Dimarco, Dr Sue Brown, Andrew Brown and Dr Melinda Firth.
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Comment
The pandemic has taught the NHS the benefits of 'working from home'
Geoff Underwood on locking the benefits of this lockdown and learning lessons from it to improve the long-term working life in the NHS.
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News
Patients shun video in favour of telephone and messaging
Only a fraction of patients are accessing GPs through video systems, despite a huge shift to remote consultations.
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‘Constrained’ covid testing means some may ‘miss out’
‘Constrained’ coronavirus testing capacity means that some people may miss out, despite the easing of eligibility restrictions, an NHS chief has warned.
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HSJ Awards
Using technology to bring people together
London North West University Hospital Trust’s emergency department, winner of the Driving Efficiency Through Technology category at the 2019 HSJ Awards, replaced a paper-based system with an ePortering solution. Jennifer Trueland reports how the move streamlined operations
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NHSX chief: App problems are damaging our credibility
The boss of the Department of Health and Social Care’s tech division has warned it is losing ‘goodwill and credibility’ because it has been launching “non-compliant” websites and apps, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why we should reimagine rather than reopen
As the coronavirus pandemic has unravelled, there has been a shift in the way the NHS works. We should work to preserve the best of this new system while finding new ways to draw on the innovation that can emerge from collaboration, says Erin Birch
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Government cyber security chiefs warn NHS after hacking attacks
Healthcare organisations have been attacked by cyber criminals seeking to exploit the covid-19 pandemic, according to hacking experts in the UK and USA.
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Exclusive: ‘Wobbly’ tracing app ‘failed’ clinical safety and cyber security tests
The government’s coronavirus contact tracing app has so far failed the tests needed for it to gain approval to be included in the NHS app library, HSJ understands.
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News
Hancock grants GCHQ powers over NHS IT systems
The NHS must hand over information from its IT systems to the UK’s intelligence and security authority during the covid-19 pandemic after the agency was granted extra powers by Matt Hancock, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Partners
Circular Wave offers free Instant Pay solution to get health and care workers paid
Circular Wave, workforce solution specialists, are committed to supporting the national covid-19 response. Like many service providers, they are offering their agile market-leading core solutions completely free of charge to any health or care organisation including trusts, clinical commissioning groups, GPs care homes and community services. Written by ...
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Expert Briefing
Why data modelling is key to unlocking the lockdown
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Nicholas Carding in confidence here .
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News
Apology after NHS sends thousands of dead people covid-19 warnings
NHS Digital has apologised to families after sending letters to more than 10,000 deceased patients, warning them they were at extra risk of covid-19.
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News
Care home deaths substantially underestimated as Hancock moves to speed reporting
Deaths due to covid-19 in care homes have been substantially underestimated by official government figures, new analysis by HSJ has shown.
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HSJ Partners
Conquering covid-19 – Free digital switchboard to free up front-line resource
Moneypenny is offering a free fully automated digital switchboard service for all NHS operations, says Stephanie Vaughan-Jones
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HSJ Partners
We need to automate to alleviate unprecedented burdens for NHS heroes
Lynette Ousby, UK general manager for smart health informatics provider Alcidion, argues that now more than ever NHS staff must be given the headspace to focus on clinical priorities, and that technology has a big role to play.
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Comment
A virtual hospital model can help tackle the covid-19 pandemic
West Hertforshire Hospitals Trust has been running a fully integrated, virtual consultant delivered triaging service that can be a vital part of the armoury against covid-19, say Rama Vancheeswaran, Matthew Knight, David Evans, Michael Van der Watt, Alex Newland Smith, Charlie Oliver, Philip Kelso, Chantoy Spencer and Andrew Barlow
