The Royal College of Nursing announced the first dates for strike action, as Unison and the GMB secured mandates from ambulance workers to follow suit. NHS England published its first winter snapshot, showing hospital beds are already filling up with patients with flu. Forty ‘air traffic control centres’ to monitor and address pressures started work this week.
In further health tech news, the Scottish Government launched a National Data Platform to support the development of apps and IT solutions for health and social care, and said it would like the NDP to become an ‘app store’ for the country.
