English politics was engulfed on controversy about the actions of Number 10 Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings during the coronavirus lock-down, as the UK’s excess mortality rose to the highest in the world, and its test, trace and isolate programmes got underway without the NHSX contact tracing app.
Proving that it is possible to deploy useful IT during a pandemic, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust went live with e-observations; the latest element of its Allscripts electronic patient record. And health tech experts debated whether the NHS has had its online banking moment in the Health Tech Newspaper.
