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Healthcare Roundup 21 August 2020

21st August 2020 - Healthcare Roundup

As Covid-19 infections started to rise again across the country, the government announced that it was going to abolish Public Health England, establish a new agency focused on pandemic response, and put the Conservative peer in charge of NHS Track and Trace in charge of it.

Much more quietly, the Office for National Statistics announced a big expansion of its population testing programme. Meanwhile, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust became the latest to decide to spend big on Epic. And Highland Marketing was announced as the communications partner for a new series of Health Tech Newspaper events, starting with the HTN Leading Healthcare Summit next month.

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Lewis Barraclough

Lewis studied Business and Management at the University of Central Lancashire. After graduating in 2019, he landed his first role in health tech, working for an acute and primary care software provider in an administrative role, processing orders and trouble-shooting issues with patient data extraction.

During his time at university, Lewis discovered a keen interest in marketing and communications and proactively looked for business opportunities in these areas. He worked with a salon to increase its revenue and with a clothing start-up that needed a website and social media presence. He grew the company’s social media from nothing to 600 followers in three months, while building an e-commerce website that quickly started generating sales.
A little bit about Lewis:
  • I am enthusiastic about physical fitness and the portion of my spare time that isn’t spent eating is usually spent in the gym or doing parkour
  • I play guitar and produce electronic music from time to time, with the goal of eventually producing something that I can listen to and consider to be of a professional standard
  • My secret superpower is being able to tell the number of letters in any word faster than anyone else in a room (it gets hard around 12 letters though).