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Expert BriefingThe Download: The case for an NHS AI strategy
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 correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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HSJ Local‘Fragile’ IT blamed for critical incidents and patient harm
Outdated clinical IT systems at a large Midlands hospital trust are harming patients and causing delayed diagnoses and cancelled appointments, its CEO has admitted.
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CommentThe NHS is holding the economy back by failing to share its data
Matthew Swindells writes about how unlocking AI’s potential in the NHS can boost productivity, improve patient care, and free clinicians from admin tasks by prioritising simpler, proven technologies like RPA and machine learning
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CommentThe investment in people that’s needed to make the most of AI
The prime minister plans to unleash AI across the UK, fervent in his belief that it can revolutionise healthcare and other key sectors. So can we sit back and let the robots take charge? Health Economics Unit director Andi Orlowski takes a look at the role left for humans in ...
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News£33m cost of cyber attack revealed
A cyber attack on a pathology firm part-owned by the NHS — which left hospital systems crippled for months — cost the provider £32.7m, accounts reveal.
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NewsHackers ‘compromised details’ of hundreds of staff
Hackers are claiming to have stolen – and are offering for sale – personal details of around 200 foreign nationals working in the UK healthcare sector from the Home Office.
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CommentCharisma: The key to getting things done in the NHS
A recent podcast’s argument that charisma is responsible for the current pattern of NHS services implies that just improving community-based services will not change patterns of care, writes Fraser Battye
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NewsNational tech director to step down
A national tech chief is set to step down in the spring after less than two years in the role.
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NewsTrusts given deadline to roll out new NHS app features
The majority of patients awaiting elective treatment will be able to view and manage their appointment through the NHS app by spring 2026, according to new targets set by the government.
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NewsGPs to be paid to seek consultant opinion before referring
New payments for GPs to incentivise a significant reduction in referrals are among a range of measures being announced by the prime minister in a “radical” new plan to slash the elective waiting list.
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NewsHSJ’s most read technology stories of 2024
Discover HSJ’s 10 most read technology articles of 2024, covering the latest digital news in healthcare.
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NewsTrust signs 10-year deal despite ‘deplorable’ comments by firm’s CEO
An IT firm whose CEO was caught making racist and misogynistic comments has won a significant new NHS contract with a trust that stated it had “not taken this decision lightly”.
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NewsTrust faces legal action after admin and IT failures cause ‘severe harm’
Fourteen patients suffered severe harm and 20 moderate harm after they were “lost to follow-up” by a hospital trust, it has admitted.
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CommentPreventing LTC patients going ‘off the radar’
North Central London Health Alliance is testing a new approach to proactively support patients with long-term conditions and address the challenges they face, write Kate Petts and Rachel Lissauer
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CommentThe NHS must take back control of its data
Robust data infrastructure and language AI could transform the NHS, addressing the challenges of unstructured data and the critical need for ethical, transparent data governance in healthcare, writes Dr Joe Zhang, head of data science at the Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value-Based Healthcare
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NewsCapital raids banned under new government rules
The NHS will be banned from raiding capital budgets to fund revenue gaps under new Treasury rules.
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NewsExclusive: AI models to be trained on Federated Data Platform
The national Federated Data Platform will be used to train AI models for future use by the NHS, according to NHS England’s chief data and analytics officer.
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NewsFifth cyber incident in a week under investigation
Cyber security teams are investigating the fifth suspected attack on the NHS to have taken place last week.
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NewsExclusive: 10-year plan digital advisers revealed
HSJ can reveal the 17 members of the digital, data and technology working group which is helping to shape the government’s 10-year health plan, who include six local NHS leaders.
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News‘Don’t buy Epic’ unless it integrates with NHS App, says government adviser
The NHS should no longer do business with leading tech supplier Epic unless future iterations of its technology work with the NHS App, a senior government adviser has warned.