Healthcare Roundup 25 October 2019

A digital strategy refresh for health and care in Scotland – what to expect

Audit Scotland warned at the NHS in Scotland is not sustainable in its present form, and there needs to be a big push on the integration and reform agenda to change things. In England, think-tanks and unions continued to report huge problems with demand, backlog maintenance and staffing.

NHSX posted some high-profile job adverts, while the Department of Health and Social Care announced that the roll-out of the Electronic Prescription Service is almost complete, ten-years after it started. Also this week, an interview with Rizwan Malik, a consultant radiologist with strong views on the importance of bringing imaging into IT debates.