Digital & technology

Boots strikes five-year deal with digital services provider

Boots and Cegedim have struck a new five-year digital services deal.

Well to launch scheduling app for shifts and cover

Well says it will launch an app that allows its employees to schedule and manage their shifts and cover.

NHS messaging service to send Covid-19 text support

People who contact NHS 111 and register their coronavirus symptoms will receive support through daily text messages.

Locum app secures 1m in growth funding

The team behind an online job booking platform for locum healthcare professionals have secured £1m in equity funding.

Phoenix opens hub and spoke facility

The new dispensing facility will eventually assemble around 16 million repeat prescriptions a year for the Rowlands group.

PAGB finds age divide in uptake of health technology

The public should be encouraged to make greater use of digital health technologies, the PAGB has said.

Boots trials translation technology in five stores

Boots is trialling technology that will allow patients who cannot speak English to access its services.

 

Lloyds parent company: 'We believe pharmacies will close'

McKesson UK chief Toby Anderson said the new settlement is “neither as good as we hoped nor as bad as we feared.”

Summary care records

This CPD module takes a look at SCRs including what they contain, their benefits and how to access them.

Go, go gadget

Community pharmacies can offer customers self-diagnostic tests alongside a plethora of healthcare gadgets.

Boots to "transform pharmacy experience"

Pharmacy is changing, according to Boots UK, as the company transforms how customers access healthcare.

Zapping headaches

NHS England has announced it will fund a handheld device that can help manage cluster headaches.

Bayer expands business training

Bayer’s Business Fit for the Future programme launches its second module on how to make the most of technology.

Technology opening windows

A new report highlights the role technology could play in increasing vaccination awareness and uptake rates.