Political attention remained fixed on the Conservative Party leadership contest and Brexit. Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock is unlikely to stay in post in a new administration; and his technology advisor, Hadley Beeman, has secured a job at NHSX. In the middle of all this, NHS England pushed on with its NHS Long Term Plan implementation framework; telling healthcare economies to draw up five-year strategic plans by November.
Also this week: another chance to read our guest interview with Colin Brown, chief clinical information officer at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, about its decade-long development of the Lorenzo EPR, and why all areas should have the money they need to progress digitisation.
