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  • NHS senior leaders back Sir Jim Mackey as the most trusted NHS chief in decades

    NHS Trust Executive insights reveal renewed confidence in NHS England’s CEO leadership and a clearer path to recovery. The UK’s National Health Service has had nine chief executives of NHS England since the organisation’s formal creation, with Sir David Nicholson as its first and Sir Jim Mackey as the most recent. Each has presided over [...]

  • Modern care, old systems: Why healthcare remains a prime cyber target

    By Colette Kitterhing, vice president of UK and Ireland at Netskope Healthcare is changing at a rapid pace, as the health industry digitally transforms to meet patient expectations. Despite this, trust is still delicate in the industry. When people can't book appointments, deal with broken communication between clinicians or receive incorrect diagnoses, their confidence deteriorates. [...]

  • New healthcare app launches to connect patients directly with healthcare specialists

    Mobile healthcare app My Specialist Appinion (MSA), has officially launched to address the growing crisis in UK healthcare accessibility.  Founded by seven NHS doctors, MSA offers patients affordable and convenient access to healthcare specialists without the lengthy waiting times or prohibitive costs of traditional routes. The platform was conceived in December 2020 during the COVID-19 [...]

  • Gradient Health launches Atlas 2 imaging platform

    Gradient Health, Inc. has announced the release of Atlas 2, a major upgrade to its self-service medical imaging data platform used by AI developers worldwide. The new version introduces deeper search capabilities, a redesigned developer experience and improved collaboration tools to streamline the process of building representative imaging datasets. Atlas 2 provides immediate access to [...]

  • Boston Scientific obtains CE mark for FARAPOINT

    Boston Scientific Corporation has received CE mark for the FARAPOINTTM Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) Catheter, the newest PFA catheter in the company’s electrophysiology portfolio. The FARAPOINT PFA Catheter is used for the treatment of right atrial flutter (AFL), delivering ablation to the cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI) area of the heart. The CE mark represents a new [...]

  • Why DSPT compliance is vital to securing healthcare’s mobile frontline

    By Adam Boynton, senior security strategy manager at Jamf Mobile devices have become the NHS’s most quietly transformative tools. Whether on a ward round, at a community visit, or during an emergency response, clinicians now rely on phones and tablets as instinctively as they once reached for a penlight.   These endpoints carry [...]

  • Dr Haus Dermatology expands with two new Dermatologists

    Dr Haus Dermatology is celebrating its 15th anniversary and strengthening its clinical team with the appointment of two new Consultant Dermatologists: Dr Paola De Mozzi and Dr Jason Thomson. Founded in 2010 by internationally recognised dermatologist Dr Ariel Haus, the Harley Street clinic has grown into a trusted destination for evidence-based dermatology, pioneering technologies, and [...]

  • Prostate cancer screening for all UK men not justified – experts

    A national prostate cancer screening programme is not justified for all UK men, the UK National Screening Committee has advised. The committee said mass screening would be "likely to cause more harm than good" and backed testing only for men with BRCA genetic variants. BRCA variants are inherited DNA changes that can raise cancer risk. [...]

  • Progress for Gradient Health’s medical imaging data tech

    Gradient Health has announced the release of Atlas 2, an upgrade to its self-service medical imaging data platform used by AI developers worldwide. The new version introduces deeper search capabilities, a redesigned developer experience and improved collaboration tools to streamline the process of building representative imaging datasets. Atlas 2 provides immediate access to more than [...]

  • “We need to move from crisis response to early action” – health tech leaders react to UK Budget

    The UK’s 2025 Autumn Budget has outlined a series of measures with direct implications for the health tech sector, signalling a renewed push to modernise NHS infrastructure and expand tech-enabled care. At the centre of the announcement is £300m in new capital funding for NHS technology, positioned as critical to upgrading digital systems, strengthening data infrastructure [...]