Hundreds of thousands more people a year will have the option to refer themselves for key services such as help with incontinence, podiatry, or hearing tests without needing to see a GP, as part of the NHS primary care access recovery plan. Around 180,000 more people per year will be able to self-refer for additional […]
More than 2.7 million people have already used a new prescription feature in the NHS App since its launch two months ago. The convenient new feature, which was launched in January, allows patients in England to see when their prescriptions have been issued and view their prescribed medication. Since the launch, there have been 18.4 […]
This privacy notice provides information about the processing of personal data in the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP). For more information about the FDP, please see the dedicated webpages about FDP and the frequently asked questions. This privacy notice provides answers to the following questions about the processing of personal data in the FDP: What is the NHS […]
Patients in England will be able to get treatment for seven common conditions at their high street pharmacy from today without needing to see a GP, as part of a major transformation in the way the NHS delivers care. More than nine in ten community pharmacies in England – 10,265 in total – will be […]
Millions of people will be able to use the NHS App to view their prescriptions for the first time from today. Following a successful trial last year involving over a million users, NHS England is adding the new service to the app which will allow patients to see when their prescriptions have been issued and […]
The NHS App has twice as many users as Netflix’s 16.7 million subscribers with three quarters of adults in England now signed up, new figures show today. As the app marks its fifth birthday, new data shows it has 33.6 million registered users, with monthly traffic to the app rising by more than half in […]
NHS England is committed to listening to and engaging with the public, patients and stakeholders to help design and deliver the federated data platform (FDP) programme. FDP engagement portal In the engagement portal you can: Register you interest in taking part in future FDP engagement activity Leave feedback on any aspect of the FDP programme […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) will spot patients at risk of needing to go to hospital so community NHS teams can get to them first and reduce pressures on A&Es, as part of a range of tech and data solutions being rolled out across the NHS ahead of winter. Four GP practices in Somerset are trialling an […]
People across England are being encouraged to use the NHS App as an easy way to register their organ donation decision – as more than 7,000 patients actively wait for a transplant. The total number of organ donation decisions registered for the first time through the NHS App has increased by over a fifth over […]
As this year’s World Patient Safety Day celebrates the theme ‘Engaging patients for patient safety’, I felt it was a good opportunity to explain the connection between medical examiners and patient safety, and particularly the support we provide for bereaved people, whose insights and experiences can be crucial in supporting the NHS to learn and […]