As Parliament spent another exciting week debating the UK’s exit arrangements from the EU, NHS trusts started to reveal their no-deal or hard-Brexit plans. In board papers, Birmingham’s trust warned that medication shortages were likely to emerge “quickly” given the “unprecedented” disruption to supply chains that would be caused. Despite this, NHS England the BMA looked to the future with a new GP contract with a digital element. And NHS England deputy chief executive Matthew Swindells gave an interview to the Health Service Journal in which he floated the idea of a cloud-based, stripped down electronic patient record for digital laggards and confirmed that the NHS Summary Care Record is being scrapped.
Healthcare Roundup 1 February 2019
