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Rob Thompson has been appointed chief digital, data and technology officer across the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England.

The Digital Exclusion Risk Atlas (DERA) is an online location-based analytical tool designed to help health and care system teams understand and identify patterns of digital exclusion across England.

NHS England has awarded a contract worth more than £160m to IBM for the supplier to support the development of the NHS App.

The latest attempt at digitally transforming the NHS has the potential to “be different”, but only if the government tackles challenges around workforce digital skills and legacy IT and ensures staff ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced it will integrate NHSX and NHS Digital into NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) as part of a major workforce planning and technology-led ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is due to announce that tech bodies NHSX and NHS Digital will merge into NHS England as part of a major restructuring. In an internal email, seen by ...

UK health secretary Sajid Javid has set out a digital agenda to harness technological breakthroughs and drive transformation in the NHS and social care. Speaking at the HSJ Digital Transformation ...

Towards the end of last year, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that moving NHS Digital into NHS England would support the NHS’s recovery from COVID-19. The former chair of NHS Digital has written a ...

A new digital health check delivering an additional one million checks in the first 4 years is to be rolled out in England in Spring 2024. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) underlined ...

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has this week announced a shake up with how digital functions are structured within the NHS in England. NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) will gain more powers at the ...

NHS App users in England can now collect medication from a pharmacy without having to contact a GP or health center to get a paper prescription, according to NHS Digital. From today, patients in ...