Scrap The App!
Debi Evan at the UK Column News coined the phrase Scrap The App. The NHS seek to replace face to face, in person medical care with mobile phone applications. Debi says no! I too say no!
Debi Evans is a retired NHS ward sister of a time when ‘tender loving care never ran
out and hands were held’. Her Twitter X handle is:
@DebiEvansMatron : https://x.com/DebiEvansMatron
Debi is featured at about 17 mins in…
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-6th-december-2024
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UK Column News archive: UK Column News—30th August 2024 (Timestamp: 10:13—Have You Got The NHS App? Scrap The App Before The NHS Is Digital First)
GOV.UK: A plan for digital health and social care
Gulf News: Meet Peter Thiel: Anti-globalist, fierce billionaire backer of Trump—PayPal co-founder, Facebook investor
Privacy International (2020): All roads lead to Palantir: A review of how the data analytics company has embedded itself throughout the UK (PDF)
Pharmaphorum (2023): NHS data in spotlight again as Palantir wins new contract
BBC: NHS data sale can fuel tech boom—Blair and Hague
The NHS should sell anonymised medical records to harness a new biotechnology "industrial revolution", Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague have said.
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change: A New National Purpose: Leading the Biotech Revolution
NHS England: NHS ‘ping and book’ screening to help save thousands of women’s lives
NHS Digital: Introduction to NHS App messaging
We hope that eventually it will be the main way that citizens of England receive their healthcare messages.
Financial Times: NHS staff use WhatsApp ‘constantly’ to share private patient data (Archived)
University of the West of England, Bristol: UWE Bristol to lead £1.3 million project to evaluate the use of phone app to help with back pain
Digital Health: Concerns raised that NHS digital plans could exclude older adults
Digital Health: NHS App national director Joe Harrison confirmed for Rewired 2025
The Telegraph: NHS technophobes are blocking reforms, warns GP at Hand founder
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