Liz Gaffney, Head of NHS England's Secure Data Environment, reflects on the developments of the service one year on.
In January, Michael Chapman blogged about our ambitious plans for the NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE), starting with mi...
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As we prepare to bring new products and suppliers into the GP IT market, Dan Wintercross discusses the Tech Innovation Framework.
The demand for primary care is increasing, with GP practices currently delivering more than 27 million appointments...
Our data-driven clinical trials service, NHS DigiTrials, is changing what is possible for researchers but there’s more to do, says our Head of Clinical Trials.
We’re seeing numbers coming out of the NHS DigiTrials’ recruitment service that would not h...
Clinical informatics manager Chris Day says full implementation of multi-factor authentication is critical to local organisations’ cyber security.
Cyber security is about risk reduction and that can make it a difficult sell in the NHS.
Hard-pressed b...
Alex Toft, Head of Technical Intervention in our Technology Live Services directorate, explains how the renewal of the NHS's public key infrastructure (PKI) over the coming months will lay the foundations for trusted identities and secure communication...
Samuel Martin and Ellen Doyle have been leading the development of principles to help teams at NHS England design more inclusively.
‘Inclusive design’ and 'accessibility' are often used interchangeably, but they are different things. ...
James Higgott, Lead Product Manager for the NHS website, talks about how his team is using a comprehensive roadmap to help them focus on outcomes, not outputs.
We recently published an update to the roadmap for the NHS website (nhs.uk). This desc...
User researcher Fern Williams describes how we created a new paper patient registration form to complement the online ‘Register with a GP surgery’ service, allowing everyone to have a consistent user experience and leaving no one digitally excluded.
O...
Susie Day, Programme Director for the NHS App, looks at what’s changed since the app’s launch in January 2019 and how its services are evolving post-COVID.
NHS 75 is an incredibly proud moment for me and, I hope, for all the people who work so hard ac...
Most prescriptions are still paper-based in secondary care. Business analyst Andy Harrison describes the technical groundwork we’ve laid to allow these settings to go digital.
The little green FP10 paper prescriptions have all but disappeared in prima...