NHS Digital In-depth articles about how we are improving health and care. Features In-depth articles about how we are improving health and care. Improving the NHS’s most fundamental process A new service is making registering with a GP easier for patients and for practices. A quarter of GP practices in England are already on board. Electronic prescribing comes of age The Electronic Prescription Service has transformed primary care prescribing in England. Christine Hague looks back at 18 years of the service and asks what's next. Precision-guided public health The COVID-19 pandemic saw a quiet revolution in how we use data to target health and care services at vulnerable individuals. John Windell looks at the data platform and algorithms that have helped make the difference. Breaking NHS boundaries Hyper-connected mobile units are helping a unique service in London protect some of the most vulnerable people in our society from TB, HIV and hepatitis. Closing the information gap Little was known about a new virus called “SARS-CoV-2” as it began to spread across the globe at the end of 2019. Clinicians didn’t even have a clinical code to record cases. NHS Digital was part of the effort to build and share the information that is crucial to fighting the virus. A clear and present danger Ransomware is a growing threat across the health and care system. NHS cyber security experts describe how it can affect organisations and what is being done to combat it. Know your enemy In just over a year, the UK’s COVID-19 testing capacity increased from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of tests a day. This achievement has been crucial to the fight against the virus – and the sinews of the system are digital. A vital injection Developing COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year showed the extraordinary capabilities of modern medical science. The next challenge? Getting those shots into tens of millions of arms. Digital technology is playing a crucial role. Everything is clinical For the clinical team at NHS Digital, the job is about putting sound medicine and an understanding of the way people tick at the heart of NHS technology. Adam Green finds out more about their work. NHS DigiTrials: Already saving lives A new approach to supporting clinical trials helped researchers develop some of the most vital COVID-19 treatments - and is making it easier to quickly and safely test new medicines.
Improving the NHS’s most fundamental process A new service is making registering with a GP easier for patients and for practices. A quarter of GP practices in England are already on board.
Electronic prescribing comes of age The Electronic Prescription Service has transformed primary care prescribing in England. Christine Hague looks back at 18 years of the service and asks what's next.
Precision-guided public health The COVID-19 pandemic saw a quiet revolution in how we use data to target health and care services at vulnerable individuals. John Windell looks at the data platform and algorithms that have helped make the difference.
Breaking NHS boundaries Hyper-connected mobile units are helping a unique service in London protect some of the most vulnerable people in our society from TB, HIV and hepatitis.
Closing the information gap Little was known about a new virus called “SARS-CoV-2” as it began to spread across the globe at the end of 2019. Clinicians didn’t even have a clinical code to record cases. NHS Digital was part of the effort to build and share the information that is crucial to fighting the virus.
A clear and present danger Ransomware is a growing threat across the health and care system. NHS cyber security experts describe how it can affect organisations and what is being done to combat it.
Know your enemy In just over a year, the UK’s COVID-19 testing capacity increased from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of tests a day. This achievement has been crucial to the fight against the virus – and the sinews of the system are digital.
A vital injection Developing COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year showed the extraordinary capabilities of modern medical science. The next challenge? Getting those shots into tens of millions of arms. Digital technology is playing a crucial role.
Everything is clinical For the clinical team at NHS Digital, the job is about putting sound medicine and an understanding of the way people tick at the heart of NHS technology. Adam Green finds out more about their work.
NHS DigiTrials: Already saving lives A new approach to supporting clinical trials helped researchers develop some of the most vital COVID-19 treatments - and is making it easier to quickly and safely test new medicines.
