AI
When the health secretary Wes Streeting warned that parts of the NHS had “over-steered” towards financial control and were now under-delivering on elective activity, he named the problem precisely. The system has been managing by hindsight. Reports arrive late. Decisions follow later. Capacity leaks quietly in between. Across Northwest London, a different model is running live. Less [...]
NHS-backed AI notetaking tools could give doctors up to 25 per cent more time with patients, NHS England has said. NHS organisations across England are being urged to use a new national registry of 19 suppliers for the technology, which records clinician-patient conversations and uses AI to generate real-time transcripts and clinical summaries. Known as [...]
Proxima has raised an oversubscribed US$80m seed round for AI drug discovery in proximity therapeutics, which aim to control protein interactions. The New York and Boston-based company, formerly known as VantAI, has rebranded to reflect its focus on building the technology and data needed to unlock proximity-based therapeutics. These medicines work by controlling how proteins [...]
OpenAI has acquired the healthcare technology start-up Torch as it expands its presence in healthcare. Torch was building a "unified medical memory" for artificial intelligence, designed to bring a patient’s health data into one place when it is typically siloed across different vendors and formats. Torch’s employees will join OpenAI as part of the acquisition, [...]
By Nick Wilson, CEO of System C As we enter 2026, artificial intelligence has now moved beyond the hype cycle. The question is no longer whether AI will transform health and social care, it's when, and whether we'll deploy it swiftly and wisely - or will we waste the time patients and public finances can’t [...]
By Christoph Lippuner, co-founder and CEO at Semble The UK healthcare system continues to face significant pressures. A new report by the Public Accounts Committee has revealed that the NHS is still working towards its goal of reducing patient waiting times, even with substantial investment in recent years. Simultaneously, AI use, by both clinicians and [...]
Google's AI Overviews can surface misleading health advice, risking patient harm, an investigation by The Guardian investigation has revealed. The AI-generated summaries sit at the top of search results and are meant to offer quick answers to users’ questions. In one example described as "really dangerous" by experts, the AI wrongly told people with pancreatic [...]
GravityLabs has closed a US$17m series A to speed its US expansion, open a local office, relocate staff and hire, while advancing its AI health app. Founded in 2022 by chief executive Woonyeon Kim, GravityLabs is best known for Moneywalk, a gamified health app that uses rewards, challenges and community features to encourage daily activity. [...]
By Klaus Boehncke, global digital health lead, Guillaume Duparc, healthcare partner, and Levin Laske, healthcare principal, L.E.K. Consulting In 2025, the world of healthcare and medical technology has been defined by increased AI adoption and integration into clinical systems, with recent findings outlining that AI-focused deals now make up 75 per cent of health tech funding. From [...]
Members of the public, clinicians, industry and healthcare providers are being asked to share their views on how AI in healthcare should be regulated, as part of a “Call for Evidence” launched by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) today (18 December 2025). This will support the work of the newly formed National [...]
