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The latest news from NHS Digital.
NHS payments to General Practice report published
The NHS Payments to General Practice, England, 2017/18 report has been published today by NHS Digital.
NHS e-Referral Service makes its 100 millionth online booking
The NHS e-Referral Service has hit 100 million bookings since it was launched in 2005 as the NHS Choose and Book Service.
NHS Spine reaches one billion monthly transactions
The NHS Spine, which supports the IT infrastructure for over 500,000 health and social care workers in England, has reached the milestone of one billion transactions in a month for the first time.
Insight into digital uptake in maternity services aims to bring benefits of technology to mums
A new report shows for the first time how digitally ‘savvy’ maternity services in England are – and aims to drive up the better use of technology.
GP appointments data published
NHS Digital has published data to inform users about GP appointments and help show how primary care is affected by seasonal variation.
Health survey reveals association between parent and child obesity
Children of obese parents are more likely to be obese themselves than children whose parents are not overweight or obese, according to NHS Digital figures released today.
New UK Health Data Research Alliance to boost medical research and improve future health and care
An exciting new alliance will bring the UK’s leading academics together with forward thinking health data specialists, to develop new ways to design and support the medical research of the future, to improve the care patients receive from the NHS.
Update: NHSmail restored to all users
We can confirm that all accounts identified as having been locked out as a result of multiple login attempts were unlocked by 10.30pm last night.
Update: Access to NHSmail restored
All users should now have their access to NHSmail restored after problems with availability today, caused by a software issue in the supplier’s internal infrastructure.
Update: Severity 1 national outage on NHSmail
We have been working hard to fix the issues NHSmail has been having today.