#Purgethepager, policy and PR
Matt Hancock has announced a ban on NHS pagers. Matthew D’Arcy reflects on the 2017 media campaign that preceded the policy shift, and why it had such an impact. When Matt Hancock announced a ban...
Predictions for the NHS and health tech in 2019
Brexit will continue to cause short-term upset in UK politics, but it is long-term trends that will shape the NHS and the health tech market in 2019 and beyond. Highland Marketing and its advisors look...
Hancock’s half month
In the fortnight since he took over from Jeremy Hunt as health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock has given one major speech and made his first appearance in front of the Commons’ health committee....
Dr Saif Abed talks about WannaCry – one year on
As sunshine illuminated Friday lunchtime on 12 May 2017, reports started to pop up on local news-sites and social media that the NHS was experiencing a cyber-attack. By tea-time, it was clear that it was...
Guest Interview, David Stone
The managing director of Kaleidoscope Consulting talks to Lyn Whitfield about the General Data Protection Regulation, and the challenge the NHS faces in implementing it. On his Twitter profile, David Stone says he “spends an...
HM interview: Michael Seres
Patient power is far from reality in an NHS that has no chief patient officer, where lived experience is not embraced, and where patient entrepreneurs lack opportunity, says Michael Seres. The veteran patient advocate talks...
Predictions for 2018
What is the coming year likely to hold for NHS and IT? And what will that mean for marketers, companies and trusts working with healthcare technology? Highland Marketing looks ahead. Lyn Whitfield, strategy and content...
HM interview: Hal Wolf
Harold (Hal) Wolf III, the new head of HIMSS, was in London recently to meet health and IT policy leaders and to have lunch with the press. Lyn Whitfield spoke to him about his career,...
Interview: Chris Morris
One of the principal analysts at South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit talks to Lyn Whitfield about the evolution of risk stratification in the NHS, and what the future holds for healthcare analytics, in...
WannaCry: NHS Digital addresses comms errors exposed by cyber ‘Armageddon’
The global ransomware crisis that hit the NHS in May has led to a lot of lessons being learned – and put cyber security firmly on the agenda of NHS trust boards. Matthew D’Arcy reports...
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