Scotland launched its coronavirus vaccine passport app, with Wales poised to follow as Covid-19 death rates started to rise again. The King’s Fund showed that NHS waiting lists and times are longer in poor areas than rich ones, and suggested the government should prioritise populations in greatest need if it was serious about ‘levelling up.’
In health tech news, IMS MAXIMS and Servelec were announced as the suppliers for a new, integrated health and care record for the States of Guernsey. And CliniSys was unveiled as the winner of a national contract for a laboratory information system to modernise pathology services in Northern Ireland.
