Jeremy Hunt became England’s longest serving health secretary at the start of the week, prompting a spate of reviews of his time in office. Overall, the media gave him positive marks for focusing on safety, for securing additional funding for the health service, and for working effectively with senior managers to recover from the Lansley reforms; and negative ones for his run-in with junior doctors, for not securing enough additional funding for the health service, for the winter crisis and lengthening waiting lists. To mark his anniversary, Hunt gave an interview to The Guardian in which he hinted the NHS would get a generous financial ‘birthday present’ in July. In tech news, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust announced that, after a four-year wait, it had secured the funding to deploy Epic; and St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust announced that it had deployed System C Medway. Also this week, Highland Marketing interviewed Richard Corbridge, one of the highest profile chief information officers in the NHS, about his first six months at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, his plans for its EPR, PPM+, and the Leeds Care Record that is at the heart of a LHCRE bid.
Healthcare Roundup 8 June 2018
