Healthcare Roundup 4 November 2022

Amanda Pritchard

NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard told the King’s Fund’s annual conference that the NHS is facing a tougher time than it did during Covid. Steve Brine, the Conservative MP for Winchester and Chandler’s Ford, became chair of the Commons health and social care committee, and said he wanted to know why it isn’t delivering better value for money.

The Citizen’s Access project to give patients automatic access to new entries in their GP record was thrown into turmoil on Tuesday, the day it was meant to start, with contradictory reports about whether it had been halted completely or only for practices that told EMIS and TPP to stop. And UKCloud went into liquidation.

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