The latest attempt at digitally transforming the NHS has the potential to “be different”, but only if the government tackles challenges around workforce digital skills and legacy IT and ensures staff ...

Problems with computers could be blamed for up to 900 deaths in the NHS every year, two academics have claimed. Computers are embedded across the NHS but many are "bad" and "low quality", putting ...

A BBC News investigation has heard claims of a “cover up” of the scale of problems with NHS IT systems - used to manage patients’ medical records. IT system failures have been linked to the deaths of ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget promise of £300m of additional capital investment in NHS technology was welcomed by healthcare leaders and industry, but critics fear the funding is too modest ...

NHS IT failures have been linked to three deaths and more than 100 instances of serious harm at NHS hospital trusts in England. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request also revealed that 200,000 ...

AN NHS dietitian died after a hospital’s new computer system is thought to have delayed treatment for a blood clot in her lung. Emily Harkleroad, 31, collapsed on December 18, 2022, and was taken to ...

The government has outlined some of its aims to improve the links between the NHS and social care in its Integration White Paper. Patients will also have a digital care record where they can book ...

The Welsh Government has invested £12.1m in the project, but initially it is serving only two health boards – Hywel Dda and Cwm Taf. The Wales Audit Office says it is “keeping under review” the cost ...

A crisis-hit computer project for the NHS 24 telephone helpline will not be fully rolled out across Scotland until the end of next year - four years later than originally planned. The call handling ...