NHS England has published its annual winter planning guidance, which builds on its January plan to recover urgent and emergency care. Features include ‘care traffic control’ centres and a further roll-out of virtual wards. Royal medical colleges have warned the plan is inadequate and the NHS needs more, physical, staffed, beds.
In health tech news, legal campaigners Foxglove have launched an ‘email your MP’ campaign to try and build pressure against NHS England’s Federated Data Platform and Palantir, the company it’s assumed will win the contract to deliver it. Plus: med tech – what does health tech need to know?
