It was the NHS Confederation’s annual conference. The virtual event attracted keynote speeches from Matt Hancock, Sir Simon Stevens and new Confed chief executive Matthew Taylor and reflected on the challenges of the coming winter, running a recovery programme alongside a reform programme, and making more use of real-time data.
In other news: guidance for ICSs confirmed that they won’t have to have a CIO on the board, NHS Digital launched a new terminology server, and NHS England found money to digitise maternity records for “mums”. Plus: Confed might have been virtual, but this year’s Silicon Cup is very much back on the waves. Highland Marketing chief executive Mark Venables explains…
