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The latest news from NHS Digital.
Patients in urgent care settings to benefit from electronic prescriptions
Use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in integrated urgent care settings is to be rolled out nationally following a successful pilot.
NHS Digital funding awarded to projects that help ease delayed transfers of care
NHS Digital have announced the local authority and NHS partnerships that have been successful in bidding for a share of £1.4m to help digitise their assessment, discharge and withdrawal (ADW) notices.
Electronic outpatient system set to save NHS at least £50 million
All first outpatients' referrals will have to be made electronically from later this year in a move that is set to save the NHS at least £50 million.
Prescription Cost Analysis report published
The cost of prescriptions dispensed in the community and the number of items dispensed during the 2017 calendar year has been published today by NHS Digital1.
Call for more data to be added to breast implant registry
Patients undergoing breast implant surgery are being urged to speak to their surgeon and ensure their details are recorded on a registry designed to safeguard their health.
Celebrating 70 years of the NHS
The NHS turns 70 on 5 July 2018. Help celebrate the achievements of one of the nation's most loved institutions.
Narrowing of NHS gender divide but men still the majority in senior roles
The proportion of NHS doctors who are women has grown every year since 2009, analysis of NHS workforce statistics by NHS Digital for International Women's Day shows.
Rachel makes the PR Week Powerbook
Rachel Royall, NHS Digital's Director of Communications has been named in a prestigious list of the UK's top communications professionals.
Latest experimental statistics about female genital mutilation published
New official figures published today provide experimental statistics on female genital mutilation (FGM) in England, from October 2017 to December 2017.
A statement from NHS Digital on the Mail On Sunday's FGM article
A Mail On Sunday article (published Sunday March 4) wrongly suggested that NHS Digital is falsely inflating the number of British FGM victims by including newborn babies in its data.