Opinion
System failure
How much did the recent case of Penny Campbell, who died after speaking to eight out-of-hours doctors, have to do with how clinical information was
Paper weight
Cardiac liaison nurse specialst Rob Harteveldt wonders at his increasing mountains of paperwork and asks why IT isn’t reducing the load.
Border control
Neil Versel finds out what barriers still need to be overcome before electronic health record sharing becomes common between European countries.

‘Desperate shortage of clinical coders creates financial uncertainty’
A shortage of clinical coders has wide-ranging consequences, argues Dr Marc Farr, chair of the

Henrique Martins: ‘The UK needs to go big with harmonised large datasets’
Henrique Martins shares his views with Digital Health News on the forthcoming NHS 10 year

High-quality data is the foundation on which to build the NHS’s 10-year plan
Transitioning from analogue to digital is not merely a technical challenge, writes Reecha Sofat, chair

NHS England’s federated data platform: One year on
Many of the initial concerns about the FDP have proven unfounded one year after its

Could virtual hospitals be the solution to the broken NHS?
Virtual hospitals could move us away from trust silos to create a transformed national service,