Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
11 December 2025
Today’s briefing features a therapy app that uses movement to make music and £27.3m funding for biomedical and health research.
News
Initiative launched for the safe use of agentic AI in health and care
11 December 2025
An initiative called ‘TrustX’ has been launched to help verify, deploy, and test agentic AI for use across the NHS and social care.
Staffordshire County Council to adopt social care platform
10 December 2025
Staffordshire County Council will adopt System C’s social care platform for adult and children’s case management.
Patients being told serious diagnoses via NHS App
10 December 2025
A charity has called for systematic changes to stop patients from discovering disease diagnosis through the NHS App without proper support.
Patient and staff data stolen in Barts Health cyber attack
9 December 2025
Barts Health NHS Trust is warning patients and staff after hackers exploited a software vulnerability to steal personal information.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
9 December 2025
Today’s round includes innovations in robotic colon surgery and research into how comfortable patients are confiding in AI.
AI note-taking tool helps speed up autism and ADHD assessments
9 December 2025
An NHS provider of ADHD and autism assessments found that using an AI clinical note-taking tool helped to reduce admin time for clinicians.
Health innovation minister Zubir Ahmed resigns
13 May 2026
Dr Zubir Ahmed has resigned as health innovation and safety minister in protest over Prime
Repairing EPR data errors could cost NHS at least £13.5m in 2026
13 May 2026
NHS trusts in England could spend more than £13.5m in 2026 on correcting data problems
NHS CEO Salma Yasmeen to speak at Summer Schools 2026
12 May 2026
Salma Yasmeen, chief executive at Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, has been confirmed
Pitchfest winner: Why the UK is falling behind on women’s health
12 May 2026
Pitchfest 2026 winner Valentina Milanova on why the UK is falling behind in women’s health
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
12 May 2026
Today’s briefing features a men’s health event at Ipswich Town Football Club and a merger
