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6 September 2019
 
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Sajid Javid delivers one-year mini budget
NHS
Sajid Javid delivers one-year mini budget
In the middle of a series of Brexit votes in Parliament, chancellor Sajid Javid delivered a mini budget that, he claimed, would put an “end to austerity”, deliver additional money to key public services, and lay the foundations for a new economic policy for “a post-Brexit Britain.” The NHS will receive an additional £6.2 billion next year, with most of this NHS Long Term Plan funding, money for previously announced building programmes and the NHSX AI Lab. £1 billion will be diverted to social care. NHS and medical organisations described the budget as a “missed opportunity” to “end years of underinvestment.”

Read our analysis of what the mini budget means for the NHS, and what is happening to capital and technology funding.
Expo 2019: NHS urged to act on climate change
Climate emergency 
Expo 2019: NHS urged to act on climate change
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens told the Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester that “the climate emergency is a health emergency” and the NHS “must act”. Speaking alongside Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, and Dame Jackie Daniel, the chief executive of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which declared a climate emergency in June, Stevens said 4 million children are living in areas with poor air quality and 40,000 people die every year from conditions linked to air pollution. He urged trusts to improve energy use, cut journeys, and remove plastic from their supply chains and treatment pathways without waiting for instruction: “JFDI.”
Expo 2019: Brexit ‘top operational priority’ for next two months
Brexit
Expo 2019: Brexit ‘top operational priority’ for next two months
In an earlier keynote speech at Expo 2019, Stevens (see above) told NHS chief executives that preparing for Brexit should be their “top operational priority for the next two months.” Boris Johnson’s administration is still committed to leaving the EU on 31 October, and Stevens pointed out that this will present particular challenges to the health service, because it falls at the start of winter, when demand is particularly intense. The Health Service Journal (£) reported this week that East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is gearing up for ‘Armageddon’ if roads around local ports are blocked, ambulances cannot get to patients, and staff cannot get to work.
Expo 2019: NHS England announces ‘innovation greenhouse’
Health IT
Expo 2019: NHS England announces ‘innovation greenhouse’
NHS England used Expo 2019 to announce that a new lot will be added to the Health Systems Support Framework that it has been putting together to enable NHS organisations and healthcare communities to buy infrastructure, software and digital services. The Health Service Journal (£) reported that what NHS England is describing as an “innovation greenhouse” lot will enable organisations to buy services with a technology component developed by NHS test beds and the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme. The framework will also be extended to cover business services, such as e-rostering and transfer of care.
Expo 2019 tech: GDE blueprint site gains traction; blueprinted virtual ward transforms care
Health IT
Expo 2019 tech: GDE blueprint site gains traction; blueprinted virtual ward transforms care
Dr Gareth Thomas, the chief clinical information officer at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, and co-chair of the GDE Blueprinting and Learning Network Steering Group, told a pop up university session at Expo 2019 that its blueprint platform now holds more than 100 blueprints and has 1,100 users. One of the GDE blueprints, a digital ward at Birmingham and Solihull Mental health NHS Trust, has “empowered clinicians like they have never been empowered before,” digitalhealth.net reported. The ward was designed as an electronic observations portal, but now monitors other vital signs, such as food, fluid and mobility.
National IT news: CHIME launches UK chapter; chief nurse looks for NHS App ambassadors; more than 1,000 providers use NHSmail
Health IT
National IT news: CHIME launches UK chapter; chief nurse looks for NHS App ambassadors; more than 1,000 providers use NHSmail  
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, better known as CHIME, has launched a UK chapter after signing a “landmark” agreement with the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for IT. Digitalhealth.net reported that the agreement will give BCS members access to CHIME’s online materials and qualification programmes. England’s chief nursing officer, Ruth May, is looking for ten ambassadors for the NHS App. The Health Tech Newspaper reported that she wants to drive adoption. The HTN has also reported that 1,076 providers are now using NHSmail. Take-up has accelerated since NHS Digital made it easier for providers such as care homes to meet its data security requirements.
Health IT news: Beverley Bryant leaves System C for London trust; Musgrove Park uses mobile tech on wards
Health IT
Health IT news: Beverley Bryant leaves System C for London trust; Musgrove Park uses mobile tech on wards
Beverley Bryant is to leave System C to become chief digital information officer at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS foundation trusts, digitalhealth.net revealed at the end of last week. Bryant joined System C as chief operating officer in 2017, having previously served as NHS Digital’s director of digital transformation. Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, a global digital exemplar, has issued a press release to say it is rolling out iPods and other mobile technologies on its wards. The trust uses IMS MAXIMS technology and is due to roll-out the OPENeP e-prescribing system developed by Better by Marand later this year.
Mini budget delivers stability for coming year but not long term
Analysis
Amid worsening Brexit turmoil, chancellor Sajid Javid delivered a mini budget with a headline £6.2 billion for the NHS. Unfortunately, most of this money has been announced before. Also, it covers a single year, when a long-term plan is needed, not least to fund technology. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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