New prime minister Boris Johnson completed his cabinet shake-up, leading to changes in the team at the Department of Health and Social Care. He also announced that the government would spend up to £2.1 billion on no-deal Brexit preparations, with £434 million going on securing medicines.
In health tech news, the ICO announced that NHS Digital would get to play in its new regulatory sandbox, NHS Forth Valley went live with InterSystems, University Hospitals of Leicester announced an EPR partnership with Nervecentre and CliniSys revealed that its software will underpin England’s new primary HPV screening service.