As the government struggled, and failed, to get its plans for leaving the EU through the Commons, the NHS stepped up its planning for a no-deal or hard-Brexit. The Health Service Journal revealed that two senior figures are now leading a team of 200 national and regional NHS England and NHS Improvement staff on Brexit contingency plans. In a busy week for health tech news, NHS Scotland explored the potential of AI, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde deployed Orion Health Medicines for medicines reconciliation and the creation of intermediate discharge letters, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust implemented digital whiteboards, and a major acute hospital in Birmingham announced that 20,000 patients have signed up for its myhealth@QEHB record.
Healthcare Roundup 17 January 2019
