The NHS is to offer “ping and book” breast screening, with text reminders for women who miss a mammogram. From December, ...

Under the plans, starting next month, women will be pinged reminders that the are due or overdue an appointment for breast ...

Patients across England will be able to book GP appointments online without the need to ring the local surgery, using their smart devices with a new NHS app installed. NHS is aspiring to become ...

The NHS app library classifies apps according to their focus. Mental health is the largest category (13 apps, 15%), followed by NHS services (12, 14%) and diabetes and healthy living (8, 9%).

Approaching two million people have been told to self-isolate by the app The NHS Covid-19 app has told 1.7 million people in England and Wales to self-isolate to date. Health ministers have also ...

Every NHS patient will carry their medical records with them in a ‘patient passport’ in the NHS app under new plans unveiled by health secretary Wes Streeting. The app will store medical records ...

While an NHS App already exists, this comes with limitations as patients are still held locally (on their GP and visited hospitals system). The new app will de-facto reunite all the information ...

The NHS app has been downloaded 30 million times, with many people using it to spell out their preferences on organ donation. The app for NHS England patients was first piloted in 2018.

Full medical records, tests results and letters from doctors will all be available in the NHS App under plans for a digital revolution in the health service in England. Ministers hope the changes ...

Concerns have been raised that government NHS plans, including having a single patient record through the NHS App, will exclude older people.

NHS England is planning to roll out a ‘ping and book’ service to remind women through their phones that they are due or overdue an appointment for cancer screening. It is also developing a new ...

The government should publish a “renewed vision and roadmap” for the NHS app, a technology organisation has urged, as firms welcomed plans for ‘patient passports’. Photo: PA Health ...