Healthcare Roundup 19 October 2018

With the Budget due at the end of October, and the long-term plan for the NHS due shortly after, local health economies have been told to gear-up for another round of ‘transitional’ and five-year plan production to outline how they will spend the money and institute the reforms. The European Investment Bank has invested heavily in Ireland’s eHealth programme, while health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has come up with his own vision for England’s NHS IT. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has revealed that it is struggling with debts and the cost of its eHospital programme, which implemented Epic. But another prominent trust, Guys and St Thomas’ in London, has been able to reveal the benefits it has seen from becoming the first in the country to implement a cloud-based PACS, from supplier Sectra.