21st Dec 2018 Friday FiveNHS announces evening and weekend GP appointments Evening and weekend GP appointments have been rolled out across England this week, NHS England has announced, with an estimated nine million extra appointments per year are now available to patients. The service has reportedly arrived three months ahead of schedule and will help ease pressure on the health…
21st Dec 2018 Friday FiveNew NICE guidelines for digital tech As the digital heath industry continues to grow and shows no signs of slowing down, its importance in the NHS sets to increase in the future. In response to this, NICE has published new standards setting out the requirements needed to develop digital health technologies for the NHS and…
21st Dec 2018 NewsWith a background in data and insight, ZPB’s CEO, Zoe Bedford, was asked by Innovations in Pharmaceutical Technology (IPT) online magazine to share her thoughts on how technological advancements and data are transforming the pharmaceutical and life science industries. Zoe addresses how the NHS has approached digitisation, the challenges faced and what the future holds. The…
21st Dec 2018 Friday FiveWorld AIDs Day report shows HIV diagnoses falling This week it was also announced that HIV diagnoses are continuing to fall as the UK exceeds UNAIDS target. A new report published by Public Health England (PHE) showed that the UK is one of the first countries to meet the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. Estimates revealed that in…