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Expert Briefing
The Download: Marching into No.10
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News
NHS App director reverses decision to join tech consultancy firm
The national director for NHS digital channels has reversed his decision to join a tech consultancy firm as an advisor after the initital announcement was greeted with widespread criticism.
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News
Tech leaders warn against transferring ICB functions
NHS tech leaders have warned that proposals to shift digital functions from integrated care boards to providers pose significant operational risks.
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News
Major AI project paused over patient data concerns
NHS England has paused a major AI project after concerns were raised about how the primary care records of 57 million people were used to train it.
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Comment
We must not paste AI solutions over brittle IT infrastructure
With the 10-Year Health Plan due, Nicholas Appelbaum urges policymakers to follow the American example and ensure clinical interoperability becomes a must-have through legislation
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News
Regional boss: Put US tech firms ‘on the hook’ for support
US tech firms should be “on the hook” for supporting NHS trusts implementing new systems, a senior NHS England official has said.
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Comment
How one city has taken the lead in healthcare innovation
As technology enables more targeted treatment, healthcare systems face questions about sustainability, access, and how to embed innovation at scale, explains Dr Ai Lyn Tan
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News
New technology should be paid for ‘like medicines’, says NICE chief executive
The purchase of approved digital products and services used for diagnosing and treating NHS patients should be reimbursed centrally, the chief executive of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence has told HSJ.
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News
NHSE axes £69m fund designed to improve patient flow
NHS England has axed a £69m tech programme aimed at improving A&E waiting times to plough the money into electronic patient record systems instead, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Basic errors lay behind trust’s botched IT upgrade, leak reveals
A string of basic errors led to a teaching trust botching a pathology lab IT upgrade, causing major disruption to tests, according to an internal review seen by HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
ImPatient: Chutzpah, hope and misplaced faith
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 NHS.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The state of maternity services
This week, the team look at two long-running and contentious issues in the NHS.
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Comment
Government must develop an NHS digitisation plan and stick to it
A bold digital future for health and care is possible – but only with clear vision, sustained investment, and the humility to learn lessons from past failures, writes Tom Hardie
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News
Staff locked in hospital during ‘unprecedented’ power cut
Staff were effectively “locked in” a hospital at night during a power cut that led to a major incident being declared last year, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Trust adopts neighbour’s EPR
One of the final seven trusts without an electronic patient record is set to partner with its neighbour to implement Oracle Health’s system.
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HSJ Partners
Beyond the status quo: Why public-private partnerships are the NHS’s next frontier
To meet rising demand, the NHS must embrace public–private collaboration that delivers proven tech solutions and enables faster, more efficient patient care, writes TeleTracking’s Chris Johnson
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Why AI isn’t taking off in the NHS
In many areas the NHS is still in the foothills when it comes to using artificial intelligence, with most of the innovation found in diagnostics and speech dictation.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Market failure?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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News
NHSE pays consultants £13.3m to help digital laggard trusts
NHS England has awarded a firm a £13.3m contract to provide “tiger teams” to help a handful of trusts install their first electronic patient record.
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News
ICB functions radically reduced in national ‘blueprint’
More than a dozen functions have been earmarked for “transfer” out of integrated care boards, including workforce planning, primary care, and digital leadership.