Gov’t announces delay to GP data extraction scheme
The programme will now roll out early September to ensure patients have more time to consider whether to opt out of sharing their data
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NHS Digital pilot will collect private hospital data
Pilot will be led by NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network
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New NHS Digital deal set to improve data sharing between different organisations
Deal will help to support integrated health and care activities
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Digital tech has health benefits for dementia patients, project finds
The Leeds Dementia Pathfinder project supported patients and carers with tech devices
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NHS signs ‘landmark’ deal with Microsoft
Under the deal, Microsoft 365 will be deployed to as many as 1.2 million staff across NHS organisations
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Researchers look to NHS Digital data in fight against COVID-19
The data is being used by researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of a number of potential treatments
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‘Lack of skills and distrust’ preventing patients from using internet
A “lack of skills and a distrust of health information online” are two of the biggest barriers keeping patients from using the internet.
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Hospital admissions increase 28% in ten years
The figures should serve as a “wake-up call’, says the BMJ.
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NHS prescribed nearly 70M antidepressants last year as rates double in a decade
The number dispensed last year was almost double the 36 million recorded a decade ago in 2008.
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More than £1m available for digital social care projects
Local authorities developing digital social care projects are to be boosted by more than £1 million in Social Care Digital Innovation Programme (SCDIP) funding, provided by NHS Digital and managed by the Local Government Association (LGA).
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New UK Health Data Research Alliance to boost medical research
The UK’s leading academics and health data specialists are being brought together under a new alliance that aims to develop new ways to design and support the medical research of the future, to ultimately improve the care patients receive from the NHS.
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Pilot scheme trialing electronic GP prescriptions
NHS Digital has launched a pilot scheme that could see more than 95% of GP prescriptions processed electronically, which it says will save the NHS time and money.
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