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Electronic Prescription Service fulfils one billion items a year

The Electronic Prescription Service is now responsible for fulfiling 95% of all prescription requests, with 2021/22 seeing it dispense 996
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Movers and Shakers news roundup

The latest edition of Movers and Shakers features appointments at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS
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Farewell to NHS Digital as it merges into NHS England

NHS Digital, for a long time a key part of the NHS IT landscape, now ceases to exist having been
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What role can leaders play in advancing NHS environmental sustainability?

A Digital Health roundtable, run with Virgin Media O2 Business, considers what role digital leaders can play in advancing NHS
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Government plans 500% expansion of virtual wards

The government is aiming to scale up virtual wards, with an ‘ambition’ to treat up to 50,000 people a month
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Recruiting digital jobs for NHS ‘my biggest challenge’ says Simon Bolton

NHS Digital's Simon Bolton has told the Health and Social Care Committee that getting the right digital skills into the
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NHS digital apps’ data could reduce health inequalities

A report from the NHS Race and Health Observatory has made recommendations for how the NHS rebuilds, collects and uses
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NHS App to gain new features and functionality in 2023

The NHS App is to gain new functionality to help patients take more control of their healthcare, including booking flu
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Palantir gets £11.5m six-month NHS contract extension

NHS England has extended its contract with Palantir for the national data platform introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to track
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