Parliament returned, but there was no immediate political impetus to end the wave of NHS strikes, which look set to resume over the early May bank holiday. Labour unveiled a plan to reform primary care, but new figures suggested that downloads and use of the NHS App have stalled – with many GP practices switching off access to appointment booking.
NHS England picked a partner to redevelop the NHS Spine for the cloud and microservices era. And trusts continued to pilot app-based pre-hab, home testing, and remote monitoring ideas.
