The Department of Health and Social Care announced that it had met prime minister Boris Johnson’s target of offering every adult in England a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine; but cases and hospitalisations are still rising rapidly across the country.
The government has given up on its plans to start the GP Data for Planning and Research extract on 1 September; but NHSX has issued a tender for a register to hold health and social care standards information. Also this week: we talk to Will Smart, the global director, external affairs, Dedalus, about what the company plans for its Care Suite EPR (formerly Lorenzo) and its DC4H data platform.
