Transformation Directorate

Blog archive

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

A day in the life of an IG professional

Pauline and Vicky from the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, explain their key values and aims embedded in their everyday lives as information governance (IG) professionals. Pauline Ward…

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Crowdsourcing Our NHS AI Lab Skunkworks Project

A Skunkworks is an unfamiliar concept to most people. It is really about creating an environment to stimulate and grow innovative ideas. We wanted to test how to get this environme…

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Tech supported remote monitoring for COVID-19

Our Chief Digital Officer, Tara Donnelly, and Matt Inada-Kim, Consultant Acute Physician and National Clinical Lead for Deterioration, highlight the support and guidance available to support clinicia…

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Helping NHS boards take charge on digital

‘There’s no going back ... we need to continue to make digital advancements in the interest of our staff and patient care; we need board leadership to maintain the momentum.’  I re…

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New national resource for data-driven innovation

Good quality data is crucial to driving innovation in healthcare. It can unlock new technologies, power the development of AI, accelerate clinical trials and enable better interact…

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IG networks - support at all levels

Information Governance (IG) networks work at local, regional and national level and provide valuable support for IG professionals.This case study looks at the East of England and how these networks w…

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How we are supporting our teams with virtual mental health check-ins

NHSX is committed to working with SMEs and start-ups to improve the contribution of technology to healthcare. William Monaghan, our Director of Operations, discusses how over the past few months we’v…

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Bring Your Own Device – more important now than ever!

Rob Blagdon, director of libraries, technology and information at the University of Gloucestershire, talks about his ‘bring your own device’ research and how it’s been adopted nationally by NHSX.The …

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Introducing NHSX's patient and public voice partners

We are Linn Phipps and Michelle Thompson, and this is our first blog as NHSX’s strategic patient and public voice partners (PPVs).We're enthusiastic about the potential for di…

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Streamlining digital health technology assessments

The way digital tools and apps are assessed for use by the NHS is changing, with the assessments moving to NHSX. We will build on the work by NHS Digital as part of the NHS Apps Li…

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