As more English hospitals moved to Opel 4 or ‘black alert’ and Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths ticked up again, prime minister Boris Johnson unveiled his Plan A for controlling the pandemic this autumn. Plan A is to keep up the vaccination drive. But there is a Plan B. Following the announcement, Johnson reshuffled his cabinet. Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid stayed put.
In health tech news, there was an interesting trial of augmented reality technology, a patient flow deployment to support an outpatient clinic in a department store, and a report showing that virtual appointments really do save huge amounts of travel and carbon emissions
