UK

  • NHS Shetland set to improve community patient services across the region with Cambric’s Morse mobile EPR  

    Cambric Systems, a supplier of healthcare patient data software solutions used in secondary and community-based healthcare settings across Scotland, has announced that its Morse solution has been selected by NHS Shetland. The Morse mobile Electronic Patient Record (EPR) has been chosen to support a wide range of community-based health services delivered in patients’ homes and [...]

  • AI stethoscope detects serious heart conditions faster in primary care, study finds

    An AI stethoscope found serious heart conditions earlier and more often in GP practices, a large NHS study reported. When doctors used it as intended, it detected heart failure, when the heart cannot pump blood effectively, arrhythmias, abnormal heart rhythms, and valve disease more quickly and more often. However, it did not significantly increase overall [...]

  • Sword Intelligence launches in the UK

    Following the announcement of a national collaboration with the Greek government, Sword Intelligence is bringing AI-led triage, care coordination and access operations to help the UK tackle waiting lists and access pressure. Sword Intelligence has launched in the UK and Europe to bring AI-led care operations designed to help healthcare providers improve access, manage demand [...]

  • Why typing during consultations is a design failure, not a clinician failure

    By G2 Speech Walk into almost any clinical consultation and you’ll notice a familiar setting: a clinician carefully balancing their attention between the patient in front of them and the screen beside them, capturing notes as the conversation unfolds. This has become such a natural part of care that it’s rarely questioned. In speaking with [...]

  • Less stress, more care: The crucial role of EPR usability

    By Johanna Kelly, chief nursing information officer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Clinicians are all too familiar with the daily frustrations of fragmented systems, multiple logins and passwords, and click-heavy workflows. As stress and burnout continue rising, especially in high-pressure environments like emergency medicine, the usability of Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) has never been [...]

  • Davos dreams, NHS reality

    By Alasdair Craine While tech CEOs promise AI domination, Britain’s health service loses the leader who actually knew how to deliver it On Tuesday, many of us woke to headlines announcing a proposed merger between SpaceX and xAI, a deal spoken about in trillion-pound terms and framed as the creation of a new industrial titan. Rockets, satellites, supercomputers [...]

  • Over 60s health startup Lateral secures £2.5m

    Over-60s health startup Lateral has secured £2.5m in seed funding from UK backers. The funding round was led by UK fintech investor Augmentum with support from Triple Point and TinyVC. Lateral, a nine-strong team, said it has identified a gap in the market among the over 14m people in the UK aged 60 [...]

  • ‘Deadly postcode lottery’ denying cancer patients access to new treatments

    Cancer patients in England are being denied new radiotherapy due to a postcode lottery in NHS funding and commissioning, doctors warn. Patients are missing out on two newer forms of radiotherapy, which are effective against several cancers and widely available in other countries, because of what clinicians describe as red tape and lack of funding. [...]

  • Ming Tang announces departure from NHS England

    By Curtis Grainge Leadership in the NHS is rarely loud, often thankless, and almost always tested in moments of uncertainty. It is defined less by announcements than by endurance: the ability to hold a steady course while institutions shift, pressures mount and expectations continue to rise. Against that backdrop, Ming Tang, Chief Digital and Information [...]

  • Doncaster and Bassetlaw launches CardMedic

    Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new 12 month pilot of CardMedic, a clinically validated app designed to transform communication with patients across any barrier – whether language, visual, hearing or cognitive impairment.  The initiative, funded by the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Charity, aims to reduce health inequalities by [...]