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12 May 2026

September 18, 2025

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

👇 News

🏟 Digital diagnostics company PocDoc supported a community men’s health event at Ipswich Town Football Club in partnership with the Ipswich Town Foundation and NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board. Held at Ipswich Town FC’s Portman Road stadium on 15 April, the ‘Talking Men’s Health’ event brought together men aged 50 and over for an evening of education, awareness, and health checks.

🖥 Software providers CareLineLive, MOA Benchmarking, and Health Metrics have merged under a unified care management platform. Evaran was created to help care providers manage services, compliance, reporting, and oversight and supports more than 1,100 providers and 170,000 care recipients across 2,100 locations globally.

🔬 xWave Technologies is the winner of the ‘Team of the Year’ award from AXREM, the trade association for suppliers of diagnostic medical imaging, radiotherapy, healthcare IT, and care equipment. The award celebrates teams that demonstrate outstanding teamwork and meaningful contributions to the MedTech community.

🏠Worcestershire County Council has partnered with Totalmobile to improve digital capabilities for domiciliary care teams. The capabilities sit within Totalmobile’s Field First platform, bringing together scheduling, mobile working, and real-time reporting in a single connected environment to help the council organise care more effectively.

🏥 CheckUp Health was awarded the ‘Advances in Digital Healthcare’ category at the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2026. The Wolverhampton-based company, a digital healthcare platform provider for GP practices, private hospitals, and health insurers, was recognised as an organisation that improves patient outcomes and supports healthcare systems.

❓ Did you know that?

A report from a medical scribe provider has revealed what the technology has delivered for NHS workers.

Heidi‘s UK Impact Report: ‘Performance in Practice’ claims its ambient voice technology (AVT) has returned more than four million hours of clinical capacity to frontline teams, an 86% cut in documentation time, and 95% of clinicians reporting reduced burnout.

The report draws on data from more than 15 million patient visits and outlines how the AI scribe unlocked up to £95,200 in annualised clinical capacity in a single pilot and helped deliver a 99% reduction in correspondence backlogs.

Dr Hannah Allen, chief medical officer at Heidi, said: “The data in this report reflects what we hear from clinicians across the NHS every day. Clinicians want to give patients their full attention but feel squeezed by rising demand and an ever-growing documentation burden.

“When AVT is introduced into real workflows with proper support, they can finally look up from the screen, listen properly, and still finish their notes on time. This is not about replacing clinical judgement. It is about freeing up clinicians’ cognitive load so that they can focus on patients, not paperwork.”

📖 What we’re reading

This thought piece explores how the NHS, life sciences and MedTech sectors can better translate national innovation into real-world delivery, patient benefit, and economic growth.

Innovation, economic growth, medtech and the NHS: from strategy to delivery, by The King’s Fund digital technologies fellow Pritesh Mistry and researcher Loreen Chikwira, synthesises insights from a roundtable with patient representatives, NHS and industry experts, and conversations with other NHS and medtech representatives, as well as recent national strategies.

The article, published on 6 May, outlines how the NHS is often criticised for struggling to adopt novel technologies, being poor at implementing established innovation, and failing to scale what works, and how NHS staff, the public, and patient groups remain sceptical about the role of industry in the health system.

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