NHS IT, Records and Data

WannaCry cyber-attack cost the NHS £92m after 19,000 appointments were cancelled

12.10.18: A report into cyber security of the health and care sector has revealed that the WannaCry ransomware attack cost the NHS a total of £92m through services lost during the attack and IT costs in the aftermath. In the Department of Healt...

Mandatory interoperability standards on the way as DHSC slams ‘inexcusable’ trust systems

11.10.18: There is no excuse for a provider to have systems that don’t talk to each other and, in the future, there will be no excuse for systems that do not talk outside of a trust, the health and social care secretary has declared. Speaking t...

A push for digital in mental health

10.10.18: Sean Duggan, chief executive of NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, argues that mental health services could hugely benefit from digitisation. Matt Hancock has made no secret of his enthusiasm for new technology. This could rep...

The Kent Integrated Dataset

03.10.18: Dr Abraham George, consultant in public health at Kent County Council, tell us about the Kent Integrated Dataset, undertaken as part of national integration programmes. A successful population health system depends on system leadership unde...

Navigate your way to cyber resilience

01.10.18: As the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday, Alan Calder, founder and executive chairman at IT Governance, looks at the urgent need for healthcare organisations to develop cyber resilience to protect patient data, manage data breaches and comply wit...

NHS could face hefty fines over GDPR as ICO takes formal action

28.09.18: The NHS could be hit with fines from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as the authority begins formal enforcement actions against a number of organisations that have failed to pay the new data protection fee. The ICO so far...

Personal Health Records: Empowering people

26.09.18: Stewart Fishman, product manager for Personal Health Records (PHRs) at NHS Digital, discusses the empowering impact PHRs can have for patients. Imagine a future where people can easily choose from a range of secure, usable, online tools to...

Social media's role in health

19.09.18: Social media has a massive role to play in health – infection prevention and control in particular, write Brett Mitchell, professor of nursing, and Hannah Rosebrock, research officer, both of Australia’s Avondale College. How ma...

Dickson: Hancock finds an NHS in need of digital rebirth

19.09.18: Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, takes a look at Matt Hancock's priorities and agenda around workforce, technology and prevention. A tech transformation is coming, according to the new health secretary. Matt Hancock...

GDEs: Never stop learning

19.09.18: Paul Charnley, director of IT and information at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT, discusses what his organisation has learnt from being a Global Digital Exemplar (GDE). In some ways, as an exemplar, we are supposed to be in a pos...

Flawed NHS IT system will cost £7m to fix after discharge blunder affects thousands

18.09.18: An NHS IT system which led to up to 14,600 patients being discharged from hospital without vital medical notes being sent to their GP will cost £7m to fix. East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust declared a “serious incident&rdqu...

Government launches digital platform for NHS staff to share views

11.09.18: The secretary of state for health Matt Hancock has set out plans to give over three million health and care professionals in England the opportunity to share their views with the government. The new platform, ‘TalkHealthandCare,&rsquo...

NHS IT systems ‘costing lives’: Hancock unveils £200m digital fund and five app trials

06.09.18: Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has described the NHS’s IT systems as “stuttering,” arguing that they are putting lives at risk and are in need of a serious upgrade. “It’s time to bring the health...

Personal Health Records: empowering people

18.07.18: Stewart Fishman, product manager for Personal Health Records (PHRs) at NHS Digital, writes for NHE to discuss the empowering impact PHRs can have for patients. Imagine a future where people can easily choose from a range of secure, usable...

NHS still largest buyer of outdated tech ‘popular last time England was in World Cup semi-final’

13.07.18: The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has revealed that NHS hospital trusts still own a staggering 9,000 fax machines, making the health system the world’s largest buyer of a technology “that was in popular use about the last time Engl...