With NHS organisations dealing with the impact of a cyber-attack on one supplier, calls for urgent action ahead of winter pressures, and indications that patients will be offered virtual outpatient appointments from across the country, it has been a busy week in healthcare and health tech news.
The NHS has made significant progress in reducing the number of two-year waiters, but more patients are waiting longer after cancer referrals. Social care skills and careers are to be boosted, says the government, as it also calls for views on inequalities caused by medical devices. And children in London are being offered polio vaccines.
All this and more in the Healthcare Roundup.
