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The NHS will offer prostate cancer patients video consultations and home blood tests under government plans to detect tumours earlier. A reported in The Daily Mail, the initiatives will be detailed in the government's Men's Health Strategy, due this week. Ministers aim to make care easier to access without time off work for in-person appointments [...]
TandemAI has secured US$22m in a Series A extension to advance its drug discovery platform. The round, from new and existing investors, takes total funding past US$80m since October 2021. The platform combines artificial intelligence with physics-based computation and wet-lab work to find potential drug candidates. The platform has produced more than ten [...]
Doctors unveiled an AI tool that could cut failed organ transplant attempts by 60 per cent by predicting donor viability within the critical window. The machine learning model forecasts whether donors will die within the timeframe that preserves liver quality, outperforming experienced surgeons’ judgement. In liver transplants using donors who die after cardiac arrest — [...]
A newly-launched digital platform aims to help NHS GP practices run clinical trials faster and reach underrepresented patients across the UK. The DaRe2THINK clinical trial has built the platform to cut paperwork for GP staff and widen access to studies. The system securely links to GP IT, automatically transferring relevant health data to participating NHS [...]
Young Lives vs Cancer today announced its first £30,000 Innovation Lab impact investment into Little Journey, a Series A digital health company aiming to improve paediatric care through personalised preparation and support tools. Launched in June 2025, the Innovation Lab aims to transform Young Lives vs Cancer’s 60+ years of expertise, experience, reach, and data [...]
Your Brain Health (YBH) has partnered with the OrthTeam Centre in Manchester, expanding access to data-driven concussion care for athletes and sports teams across the North of England – and further strengthening the UK’s national concussion care infrastructure at the forefront of digital brain health innovation. Through the partnership, the OrthTeam Centre’s dedicated Concussion Clinic [...]
Improvements to clinical practice and work-life balance are being achieved at pace by early adopters of digital pathology at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Luisa Motta and Dr Lynne Jamieson give the detail on the latest impact in a Greater Manchester wide programme. Effective new digital multidisciplinary team meetings, better work-life balance, [...]
System C has been awarded a three-year contract by North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) to deliver its Digital Pharmacy Stock Management solution, supporting the safe and efficient management of medicines. The new system will provide NWAS with a fully cloud-hosted platform for medicines inventory management and medicines assembly workflows for the kits used [...]
By Craig Millard, MD (EVP) @ Harris Health Alliance The NHS 10-Year Plan outlined a bold vision for a more joined-up, digitally enabled, patient-centred, and community-focused health service. Six months on, and the headlines continue to focus on the shiny new, groundbreaking tech and its potential for transformation. That’s all well and good, but that [...]
George A. Gellert MD, MPH, MPA, is an epidemiologist focused on using information technology to improve public health outcomes. In this article he discusses the findings from his recent research collaboration with Imprivata, just published in the peer reviewed journal Advances in Health Information Science and Practice (AHISP), the official journal of the American Health [...]
