Healthcare Roundup 19 June 2020

The troubled contact tracing app being developed by NHSX looked as if it was going to be delayed until the winter – until it was scrapped in midweek in favour of Apple and Google’s ‘decentralised’ approach. The NHS signed a huge deal with Microsoft for its Microsoft365 suite of office and communications tools.

Also this week: we talk to Nicola Haywood-Alexander, the latest member of the Highland Marketing advisory board about her career and work with Tech4CV19; and we look in more detail at the Tech4CV19 initiative, which is trying to make sure that smaller health tech companies can support the health service through the coronavirus emergency and the ‘reset’ to come.