Blood transfusions and other key patient services at several London hospitals have been impacted by a cyber attack on a pathology provider.
@GSTTnhs CEO Ian Abbs has told staff it's a "major IT incident".
Scoop from @BenClover.
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One of which was South East London....
In January @ncarding reported less than half of ICBs had a plan to deal with a cyber attack hsj.co.uk/technology-and-inn…
General election to be held one day before the NHS turns 76.
Time for health service chiefs to come up with some birthday present ideas...
CIO of a hospital told her board she'd written to @NHSEngland about funding for a new EPR...
..only for the trust to then deny this happened despite it being said at a meeting in public.
Bizarre from @UHNM_NHS.
Anyone else aware of this "guidance"?
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This week - tough times for Manchester ICS as they try and recover from a major financial meltdown without a substantive CFO and a leaked report on the shortage of nurses with digital skills w/ @LawrenceDunhill and @ncarding
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Shocking figure from today's Public Accounts Committee report - the health department spent £1.1bn on maternity clinical negligence claims, equivalent to a third of the total maternity services budget
Matt Hancock in 2019: "Building will begin on six new hospitals immediately and finish by 2024-25, as reported in Sunday Times": thetimes.co.uk/article/matt-…
2 of the 6 hospitals this month: "Building has not yet started and we now expect opening around 2031-32".
... another 'new hospital' says 2030 date no longer realistic
this is the first time i've seen hospitals openly admit this, and twice in space of a week
not a good sign for gov '40 by 2030' manifesto pledge
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Everytime I hear that organisations are using RPA my stomach turns. RPA is high risk, low reward long-term and should only be used for exceptional circumstances. You should work with vendors to create pure automation through APIs. Building an op model around this is dangerous and builds long-term debt.
Cornwall's health chiefs at @ciosicb warn the ICS could be relegated into the bottom tier of the NHS oversight framework amid problems with emergency and elective care performance.
That would mean more national scrutiny & less control locally over budgets and decisions.
The sad reality of a 30% cut in running costs - @ciosicb procures solicitors to help affected staff after launching a voluntary redundancy programme.
If only someone had commissioned some work to look at how many regulators there are and whether the system should be simplified.....
.....oh wait.....
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Regulators battling 'overlapping remits and confusion' ift.tt/X7tJnpu
Four months after contract award, @NHSEngland has published an unredacted version of its contract with @PalantirTech.
@jtalora has been through it with a fine-tooth comb so you don't have to - and here is his summary:
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A dozen NHS trusts are changing their maternity EPR supplier, amid a national alert about risks with the system - reports @jtalora.
No reported harm to patients yet, but clearly hospitals are taking the issue seriously.
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New: KPMG have been awarded an £8.5m contract by NHS England to "promote adoption" of the £330m federated data platform
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BREAKING: A&E four hours performance was 74.2% in March - missing NHSE's 76% target
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Digitising the Child Red Book (as announced by @wesstreeting) was government policy way back in 2014.
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Matt Hancock re-committed to it in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019), with a target of April 2023.
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Easier said than done.
Wonderful visit to Kings Mill Hospital with @Keir_Starmer and @ClaireWard4EM - visiting their brilliant maternity team.
Patients and staff support @UKLabour’s plan to digitise the red book so that children get the healthiest start in life with modern care at parents’ fingertips.
ALT With Keir Starmer and Claire Ward and two brilliant midwives at the Kings Mill Hospital in the East Midlands
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The 2024-25 NHS planning guidance is finally here, three months late - and with 1 working day left before the new financial year begins. Happy planning
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