NHS Digital
Former UK government agency
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| February 1 2023 | Merger with NHSX completed, fully incorporated into NHS England. |
| February 1 2023 | Merger with NHSX completed, and NHS Digital incorporated into NHS England. |
| November 2022 | NHS website reached a milestone of over one billion visits in the preceding 12 months, demonstrating its significant public usage and importance as a digital health information resource for England. |
| November 22 2021 | Announcement made to merge NHS Digital with NHSX and incorporate it into NHS England. |
| June 2021 | Simon Bolton was appointed as interim chief executive officer of NHS Digital, replacing Sarah Wilkinson. Prior to this role, he had served as chief information officer at Jaguar Land Rover and NHS Test and Trace. |
| March 2021 | Sarah Wilkinson decided to step down from her position as CEO of NHS Digital. |
| August 2020 | NHS Digital initiated a pilot electronic prescription service in three hospital trusts, enabling electronic prescription transmission to community pharmacies during the COVID-19 pandemic when most outpatient consultations were conducted remotely. |
| November 2019 | NHS Digital launched the National Record Locator, a system enabling healthcare professionals across different services to access mental health patient records across England. |
| February 2019 | NHSX created with oversight of digital strategy and policy in NHS England, which began commissioning projects from NHS Digital. |
| 2018 | NHS Digital established a troubleshooting operation to assist NHS trusts experiencing major IT deployment issues. In this year, eight trusts required emergency intervention after severe service disruptions, leading to the allocation of £2 million annual funding for the service. |
| August 2017 | Sarah Wilkinson became CEO of NHS Digital, taking on a leadership role in the organization. |
| 2016 | The care.data programme was cancelled, ending a significant data collection initiative by the organization. |
| July 2016 | Officially rebranded as NHS Digital. |
| April 20 2016 | Announcement made to rebrand the organization from HSCIC to NHS Digital. |
| April 1 2013 | Transformed from a special health authority to an executive non-departmental public body under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Took over parts of the NHS National Programme for IT from NHS Connecting for Health. |
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