Transformation Directorate

Blog archive

You can now find the latest blogs on the NHS England website - www.england.nhs.uk/blog

NHS uses basic technology to automate boring tasks: survey results

Dr. Maddy Borhani, Partnerships Manager in the CDO team, has particular interest in practising a design thinking approach to understand how to utilise digital tools in health and care to improve prod…

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Understanding the value of healthcare data

Annemarie Naylor is Director of Policy and Strategy at Future Care Capital and has a particular interest in data-driven innovation and the deployment of new technologies. She has been supporting the …

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Using chest imaging AI to support COVID-19 research and development

The National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID) was established to fulfil the NHS AI Lab’s mission of enabling the safe adoption of AI technologies, with an immediate focus on combatting the pan…

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Caldicott Principles and Caldicott Guardians are still relevant today

In this joint blog Simon Eccles, CCIO NHSX and Natasha Phillips, CNIO NHSX welcome the publication by the National Data Guardian, Dame Fiona Caldicott, of the revised Caldicott Principles and the con…

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Data saves lives: building and up skilling the NHS analytics community

Sarah Culkin (Interim Head of the Analytics Unit at NHSX) and Sukhmeet Panesar (Deputy Director within NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Data, Analysis and Intelligence Service)  a…

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How Microsoft Teams can support your clinical practice during the pandemic

As a paediatric registrar, communication with patients and colleagues is a critical part of my job.  The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic felt like a roller coaster of uncertain…

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Connecting care providers this winter

Ian James, Deputy Chair, NHSX Joining Up Care Strategic Oversight Board and Care and Health Improvement Adviser Digital, LGA and Iain O’Neil, Digital Transformation Director at NHSX, discuss the impo…

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Support for digital social care records

Peter Skinner, Assistant Director of Programmes, and Natalie James, Programme Manager, outline the importance of supporting care providers to implement digital social care records and the work they a…

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2020 - a year in health technology

In 2020 technology made a real difference in the NHS and social care, helping to keep the system going during the pandemic and transform health and care for the better. Click on the infographic below…

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Early data from the NHSX tech-enabled remote monitoring pilot

NHSX Chief Digital Officer Tara Donnelly and Dr Matthew Knight MBE from West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust reflect on early experiences and insights on the use of remote monitoring in COVID-19 pa…

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