The quiet revolution unfolding within the National Health Service is more radical than any past phase of digital transformation. For decades, NHS staff have crafted ingenious workarounds—tinkering with spreadsheets, building Access databases, and quietly deploying web apps—to meet the evolving...
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The NHS and local government agencies are facing an unprecedented surge in Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), as citizens become increasingly aware of their privacy rights under legislation such as the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For these public sector bodies, especially...
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For the NHS, innovation has never been a mere buzzword. It is a survival imperative. As the UK’s National Health Service enters a new decade grappling with surging demand, workforce shortages, budget constraints, and rising expectations, digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Digital transformation isn’t confined to computer labs or tech giants’ boardrooms—it’s revolutionizing healthcare, too. The Lancashire and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment (SDE) is a case in point. By harnessing cutting-edge technologies and forging strategic partnerships, this initiative...
As the latest of the six British-built Ebola treatment centres in west Africa admitted its first three patients this weekend, some of the volunteer NHS staff working there over Christmas said they felt insulted by a draconian ramping up of the protocols they have been told they will have to...
After the collapse of PIP, a breast implant manufacturer that used industrial standard silicon for the implants, not clinical standard, now the Harley Medical Group cries wolf.
Whilst I think that every woman who had breast implants for medical reasons should be immediately dealt with on the...
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December 10, 2010
Weird News: Bad lung beats none at all
Britain’s National Health Service acknowledged in November that, because of a shortage of healthy lungs and other organs available for transplant, it was offering those on waiting lists the option of receiving them from former...
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