We’ve been pleased to take a deeper dive into the NHS’s COVID-19 app. Whilst there’s been a lot of speculation around its functionality, what we’ve seen is a well-built and secure app. The background tracing appears to work, although it remains very much in Apple’s control as ...
The NHS App launched in 2019 as the 'digital front door' to the National Health Service in England with core features including General Practitioner (GP) appointment booking, repeat prescriptions, patient access to records and, later on, COVID-19 vaccination certification. Similar patient portals ...
Part of the Government’s strategy to manage long waits in Emergency Departments (ED) this winter, with the added escalation of the Covid-19 pandemic, is for patients who require urgent, unscheduled care to call NHS111 in order to be directed to the most appropriate service for treatme...
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19. We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. AT* - Apprenticeship Training. Where AT* is entered next to the job title indicates that this vac...
Medwise.ai uses natural language processing technology to help clinicians find answers in a fast and concise way. The artificial intelligence platform aggregates information from academic journal articles and national guidelines to provide healthcare professionals with the latest ...
“There’s finally real national strategy and co-ordination and that’s a very good sign,” says Natalie Banner, head of the Understanding Patient Data task force based at the Wellcome Trust. “There’s a major shift at the central level – but the NHS isn’t a single organisation. It’...
Constituting ~0.5% of all NHS cataract operations, national provision of immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) is limited. Combining offering ISBCS within a novel one-stop see-and-treat (S&T) cataract pathway would offer patients
Encouraging people still to get the covid- clotshot even though in UK alone about 1750 deaths and a million injuries reported on MHRA Yellow Card System. Reports piling up all over the world of people paralysed, kids with cardiac trouble, countless blood clot problems, blindness ; YET IN THI...
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