UK
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 [...]
Four in 10 UK adults would use AI counselling, a global survey suggests, highlighting growing trust in ChatGPT for mental health support. The study, led by Bournemouth University, surveyed nearly 31,000 adults in 35 countries about their use of artificial intelligence large language models such as ChatGPT. It found that 41 per cent of participants [...]
A new Dravet syndrome drug has shown promising results in early clinical trials in children with the rare and hard-to-treat form of epilepsy. Dravet syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that causes severe epilepsy that is often resistant to treatment and can also lead to speech and developmental delays. Around 3,000 people in the UK [...]
By Devina Rana, partner at McDermott’s London Real Estate Practice We spend a great deal of time advising private equity sponsors on European real estate transactions from our London office. Over the past few years, one asset class keeps coming back to the table - healthcare real estate. Sometimes the interest is tentative, other times [...]
A pioneering implantable technology - often described as a ‘sleep apnoea pacemaker’ – has been introduced to the UK, offering an alternative treatment option for people living with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) who are unable to tolerate conventional therapies such as CPAP. Designed to prevent airway collapse during sleep, the technology works by gently [...]
Magentus, a leading name in clinical diagnostics, announces the formation of a UK Advisory Board to guide the next phase of its strategy and reaffirm its long-term commitment to the UK health system. The announcement marks a significant milestone in Magentus’ renewed leadership in the UK market. It reinforces the company’s focus on earlier diagnosis, [...]
New research from Appian (Nasdaq: APPN) shows the NHS is the most trusted organisation for responsible AI use, ranking higher than any other public or private sector organisation, including banks, retailers, and consumer tech firms. The 2026 UK Public Sector AI Adoption Outlook, conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Appian, polled 1,000 UK public sector workers and [...]
