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CommentSuccessful tech business cases do not have to offer cash savings
Humber Teaching Foundation Trust’s new EPR delivered no cash savings – by design. Lee Rickles, its chief information officer, argues the real return lies in clinical time, safety and user experience, not balance sheet gains
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News‘Confusing’ NHS App functions to be standardised
NHS England is planning to dismantle the patient engagement portal supplier market in a bid to save £11m and directly integrate appointment management into the NHS App, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentData must be used to better inform decisions, not simply justify them
In a data-rich NHS, the question is no longer how much information is collected, but why so little of it is translated into meaningful improvement
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CommentThe NHS’s digital accountability gap
NHS England’s digital drive risks hollowing accountability: outsourcing and AI can expand assurance capacity, but cannot absorb clinical risk, reputational exposure or the state’s ultimate responsibility
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CommentContinuity of care and improved access are not mutually exclusive
Continuity of care reduces mortality and hospital use, yet has fallen sharply in the UK. Restoring it could improve both outcomes and access
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CommentNHS care should be more personal as well as personalised
The NHS has long promised person-centred care, but the latest evidence suggests delivery still falls short of intent
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NewsUncertainty over reforms contributed to ICB’s illegal action
Confusion over NHS reforms led a West Country integrated care board to pursue a procurement route that it acknowledged was unlawful, and for which it is now being sued.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: How to launch an EPR
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentFor neighbourhood care to work, we need a shared data infrastructure
An East London initiative offers a practical blueprint for how the NHS can deliver the preventive, neighbourhood-based care set out in its 10-Year Health Plan
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NewsNHSE seeks external digital support as job cuts continue
NHS England has acknowledged it cannot meet key digital requirements of the 10-Year Health Plan and needs to buy in resource from the private sector.
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CommentThe risks that plans for an NHS Online hospital are ignoring
The proposed NHS Online hospital risks confusing speed with safety, embedding remote-first care in areas where clinical adequacy depends on physical examination, and losing clear accountability
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Expert BriefingImPatient: From having a voice to being put on mute
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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CommentWe risk creating a two-tier precision health service
Precision health can shift the NHS towards prediction and prevention, but success depends on investment, data, skills and fair access
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Expert BriefingThe Download: War and peace
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsFlagship trusts still not using federated data platform
Many of England’s largest and most prestigious trusts are yet to start using the federated data platform, despite a push from the centre for full adoption from April.
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NewsNHSE to take greater risks on data sharing
NHS England is increasing its “risk appetite” for sharing performance and care quality data around the service and with the public, and claims that in future it will seek ”legal and governance advice” less often.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Where are the wearables?
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ella Devereux. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentIs your performance dashboard revealing what you need to know?
Digital decision-support tools are widespread in the NHS, but their impact remains limited. Digitisation has focused on generating insights without creating the organisational architecture needed to act on them
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NewsNHSE digital chief steps down
A national technology chief is stepping down in the spring after 16 years in the NHS.
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CommentYou have until Monday to help influence the NHS's use of AI
NHS leaders are being asked to help shape how AI tools are tested, deployed and governed as the MHRA’s national commission seeks to balance innovation with patient safety