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

Digital home care for people with coronavirus

NHSX Chief Digital Officer Tara Donnelly reflects on the experience of patients with COVID-19 being cared for remotely using a tech-enabled service.At the very beginning of the pandemic, NHSX was app…

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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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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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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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How technology helped shape the pandemic response

I want to say thank you for the work you did to protect the NHS, and let you know about our approach to technology in the future. If the coronavirus pandemic had happened even five…

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The reality of using video call technology during COVID-19

It goes without saying, the coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on health and care services including speech and language therapy. Kelly Brow tells us about the reality of using video tech…

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The use of online and video consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic - delivering the best care to patients

Dr Minal Bakhai, Deputy Director and Clinical Lead for Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement and a GP in London, set outs the extraordinary way general prac…

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The code behind the NHS Covid-19 App

We have Open Sourced the code behind the new NHS COVID-19 app.  In this technical blog post, Terence Eden, Head of Open Technology for NHSX, discusses the open source offer behind …

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How the NHS is innovating as part of its fight against coronavirus

Across the NHS and social care, digital technology is being embraced as never before as part of the response to the coronavirus outbreak. Last week over 75 percent of all GP practi…

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