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As England’s Covid-19 response became engulfed in rows over lockdown parties in Downing Street, health and social care secretary Sajid Javid announced an early end to almost all measures to control the spread of the disease. Labour called for a proper plan for ‘living with Covid’. Scotland announced a big expansion of its NHS 24 helpline service.
CliniSys bought Horizon Lab Systems with a view to combining it with its US business, Sunquest, and expanding the range of labs it can cover. And consolidation continued in the remote access and monitoring space as Huma acquired iPLATO.
The pressure on the NHS caused by the omicron variant of Covid-19 appeared to be shifting from London to the north. Under orders from health and social care secretary Sajid Javid, NHS England splashed the cash to put private sector capacity on standby in case things got worse and the health service was overwhelmed.
The roll-out of pathology networks and radiology consortiums continues and five trusts in Surrey and Sussex picked Sectra for a picture archiving and communications system that will enable them to share images and speed up reporting times. Medway NHS Foundation Trust made a small start on its Allscripts electronic patient record deployment, and a London mental health trust trialled a mobile app from TPP called Brigid.
The NHS was given its annual ‘to do list’ as the Commons Health and Social Care Committee laid bare the scale of recovering elective activity and trusts declared Opel 4 or ‘black alert’ because of the enormous pressure they were under.
The health tech press published predictions for 2022, and Highland Marketing joined in with a new blog on the NHS and digital trends to watch out for this year, and how they’ll impact on PR, marketing and communications.
Healthcare Roundup 21 January 2022