Europe
By Stephen Ferry, CEO of IEG Group The ICB landscape is going through an evolution. There has been a recent wave of ICB mergers and clustering being approved to take place across England, with many mergers taking effect in April 2026, others planned later for April 2027 and work already underway. For ICBs, these changes [...]
Palantir's NHS contract could open the door to the kind of data-sharing Reform UK would use for a UK version of US immigration raids, health leaders have been told. Palantir Technologies, the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, won a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform in [...]
Bliss has raised US$270k for culturally informed AI therapy aimed at widening mental health access for diaspora communities. Originally founded in Albania and headquartered in Finland, mental health startup Bliss has raised US$270,000 in angel funding led by Keiretsu Forum, Finest Love VC and Plug and Play to develop AI infrastructure designed to support culturally [...]
An £11m digital twins centre will model organs and disease to speed drug discovery and help target medicines more precisely. The Modelling-Informed Medicine Centre, or MiMeC, will build computer models of organs and diseases to better understand how diseases of the lungs, liver and kidneys progress. Digital twins are virtual versions of organs that let [...]
By Tomaž Gornik, CEO of Better Shared Care Records (SCRs) have undergone significant evolution over the past two decades. What began as relatively simple mechanisms for sharing documents across organisational boundaries is now moving towards intelligent, conversational systems that actively support clinicians, patients, and health systems. This evolution can be understood in four broad stages, [...]
Dr Haus Dermatology has announced the launch of a new consultant-led medical weight management service, expanding its commitment to evidence-based, medically supervised care. The service is led by Consultant Endocrinologist Dr Edson Nogueira, providing specialist expertise in metabolic and hormonal health within a carefully structured clinical pathway. Initial consultations will take place face-to-face at the [...]
By Michelle Freer, transformation manager of the Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership A central theme of the NHS 10 Year Plan is the long-overdue recognition that prevention should ultimately outweigh cure in delivering the strategy. For the city of Nottingham, it signals a decisive shift towards seamless, neighbourhood-based healthcare, where support is provided closer to people’s [...]
By Dr Constantin Jabarin, CCIO, Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA) I’ve spent years working alongside my NHS clinical colleagues and operational leaders, and one theme is constant: documentation takes too much time and, with that, takes focus away from the patient. We clinicians often end up spending significant time writing notes, chasing documentation and [...]
The NIHR has awarded £2.31m to 24 chronic condition tech projects aimed at stopping a single long-term illness progressing into multi-morbidity. This funding will support the development of technology-assisted workforce solutions focused on preventing a single chronic condition from progressing to multi-morbidity, the presence of two or more long-term health conditions, in community, home and [...]
By Dr Melinda Rees, CEO, Psyomics Spend enough time in the NHS and you stop flinching at the word "productivity”. You hear it in every strategy document, every board meeting, every government announcement. And almost every time, it means the same thing: do more with less. It's the wrong framing. After 25 years working in [...]
