It is currently not possible, for example, to know how groups of patients with breathing problems are being treated across primary care, secondary care and community services, hindering the drive ...

An NHS Digital spokesperson told Pulse: ‘The NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) is operating as usual for GPs to use to make referrals to secondary care. ‘Guidance will be published shortly advising that ...

A vision for building sustainable, self-driven health care spanning primary care, secondary care and the wider health and social care system has been set out by medical innovators writing in the ...

An NHS England report in 2015 estimated that 15 million GP appointments annually are spent dealing with hospital administrative queries – appointments that could and should be available for patient ...

It is frequently portrayed as anti-NHS, destabilising, and a politically motivated vehicle that promotes privatisation. It can thus be construed as the antithesis of integrated and coordinated ...

Emma Paveley, interim assistant director, NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, highlighted various barriers to using mental health digital tools at a secondary care level, including a lack of ...