Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events to know about if you want to be “in the know”.

👇 News

❤️‍🩹 Digital-first home healthcare company  Cera announced that it has exceeded £100 million in revenues from non-home care services, with the company attributing one fifth of its overall business to additional service lines including technology and data partnerships.

🍒 A team from the UCL Institute for Global Health has developed an interactive Data Explorer, allowing users to explore and visualise data on planetary health diet. It follows ‘The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems’, published on October 2025, which highlighted that shifting global diets could prevent up to 15m premature deaths each year.

🪧The £17m UNITE consortium’s first innovation call went live on 15 October 2025 with two themes, including digital innovations to advance more personalised and human-centric remote care.

💉Kainos announced a partnership with NHS England on 14 October 2025, to boost digital preventative healthcare. The three-year contract was awarded through NHSE’s Digital Prevention Service Portfolio and aims to improve access to vaccinations and screenings via the NHS app.

💻 The demise of Windows 10 has seen a surge in donations of laptops to a tech charity. As of 14 October 2025, Windows 10 users are no longer supported, but Rebooted is taking donations of old laptops and tech equipment to provide to children and families who need digital access to vital services.

❓Did you know?

Three Suffolk doctors are addressing the growing problem of mental health issues in the agriculture industry with virtual reality (VR).

The Rural Minds Project uses immersive VR storytelling to highlight the lived experiences of farmers and rural workers.

Dr Tsigarides, rheumatologist and chief medical officer at Revolve Labs, and a senior research fellow at University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School, said: “The Rural Minds VR experience allows you to step into the boots of a farmer struggling with his mental health and truly shines a light on this difficult topic.

“As doctors, our training doesn’t emphasise the unique challenges that the agricultural community face, leaving us ill-prepared to identify and support those in need. This project hopes to change that by raising awareness, improving understanding, and ultimately saving lives through connection and support.”

The project was created by Dr Jordan Tsigarides from the University of East Anglia, alongside GPs Dr Daniel James and Dr Richard West, and funded by the Felix Thornley Cobbold Agricultural Trust.

🎧 What we’re reading

Researchers found that 84% of study participants who had previously lose their sight were able to read letters, numbers and words using prosthetic vision.

The study ‘Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD’ , published in in the New England Journal of Medicine on 20 October 2025, followed 38 participants, in 17 sites across five countries, with Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust the sole UK site.

Participants were given the PRIMA device; a wireless retinal implant; glasses with a digital projector and a pocket processor that capture visual information and transmits it.

After 12 months, 32 participants completed a follow-up in which 26 showed a clinically meaningful improvement in visual acuity.

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