UK
More than 500,000 NHS staff are being given AI tools that could free up around two days a month for patient-facing work. NHS England said it is significantly accelerating AI adoption across healthcare services by giving 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The AI personal assistant helps clinicians draft documents and [...]
Joyvié has raised £771k to launch reusable incontinence underwear for people with faecal incontinence. The Sussex-based female-led startup has closed its pre-seed funding round through angel investment and Innovate UK grant funding. The money will support a direct-to-consumer product launch later in 2026. It will also fund clinical pilots across care home, hospital [...]
Hospitals with higher empathy scores had better patient and staff outcomes, according to provisional research on NHS trusts in England. The study suggests trusts with higher empathy scores also spent less on agency staff, locums and consultants. Researchers created an empathy score for NHS trusts using publicly available information on organisational culture, leadership behaviour and [...]
By Dr Ed Hutchison, clinical solutions specialist, Altera Digital Health AI is now impossible to ignore. You cannot move without seeing some sort of AI advert promising a capability that is going to revolutionise your life. Need a new fridge? It better have inbuilt AI. Need to book a holiday? Why don’t you talk to [...]
By Stephen Sutcliffe, director of innovation & technology solutions and finance & accounting, NHS Shared Business Services The NHS has no shortage of promising health technology. Pilots succeed, tools demonstrate value in individual teams, and there is rarely a scarcity of ambition. The harder challenge is what happens once the pilots conclude. Too many innovations [...]
NHS data sharing could cut 20,000 A&E visits a year and save £20m annually, the government has claimed. Ministers say the NHS modernisation bill would require GPs and hospitals in England to securely share patient information. The bill, which is due to receive its second reading on Monday, also sets out plans to abolish NHS [...]
NHS scanning trucks have detected more than 10,000 lung cancers in England, with more than three quarters caught at stages one or two, new research has revealed. People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stages are nearly 13 times more likely to survive for five years than those whose cancer is caught late. Local [...]
By Andy Kinnear, former NHS CIO and current Independent Consultant As the NHS gains increased visibility into digital maturity and user experience, DMA findings signal where progress is needed. To misquote the incredible author George Orwell ‘Not all blogs are created personal, some are more personal than others’. This one very much falls into the [...]
Predictive Health Intelligence today announced a promising new way to identify people with serious liver disease earlier, using existing NHS blood test data. The findings come from the LiveWell study, with results being presented at a major European liver congress this week. The study looked at a new approach called the Cumulative Liver Damage Index, [...]
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) has acquired CareBrain, a "technology transformation platform" for the care sector. QCS is a digital provider of compliance, care management and learning for the care sector, suporting over 335,000 care providers and staff across more than 7,200 care locations. Nikki Walker, CEO at QCS, said: “CareBrain has developed an [...]
