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Re-Appointed Hancock Puts Shoulder Into UK Digital Health-Care Drive

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The UK election result allowed newly-reinstalled prime minister Johnson to tinker with his cabinet. Surviving the small reshuffle was health secretary Matt Hancock, who wasted no time in setting out 2020 plans to support the digitally-enabled NHS of the future.

Matt Hancock

The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) plans to keep pushing NHS hospitals and trusts towards digital fluency, including those who have not been part of the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) program and those who need more encouragement.

GDEs are the most-digitally advanced NHS trusts. They were announced in 2017 and were promised £200m ($264m) funding in 2018, and were seen as an opportunity to capture insight and...

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