HSJ 8 November 2017 [Subscription required]
- NHS England has picked two private digital services to pilot a new universal NHS Online patient app that provides access to health records, NHS 111 and privacy preferences through their smartphones.
- Babylon Health’s technology will support one of the pilots in north central London. The pilot is expected to start by the end of the year.
- A second NHS Online pilot will begin on 15 November with 240,000 patients in Bexley, south east London, using eConsult, a competing app developed and promoted by GPs involved in the Hurley Group
- See commentary from Nuffield Trust here.
