MedTech qualifications launched to tackle 145,000 skills shortage
12 December 2025
New qualifications have been launched to plug skills gaps in the UK’s MedTech sector, with an estimated 145,000 jobs needed by 2035.
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Digital Healthâs monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
12 December 2025
Our roundup of new contracts features Oracle Health supplying an EPR for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.
UK and Singapore launch regulatory ‘innovation corridor’
12 December 2025
The UK and Singapore have launched a regulatory ‘innovation corridor’ to fast-track major medical advances and promising health technologies.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing â
11 December 2025
Today’s briefing features a therapy app that uses movement to make music and ÂŁ27.3m funding for biomedical and health research.
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 Câs social care platform for adult and childrenâs 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.Â
Experts caution against ‘snake oil’ claims in AI research
31 March 2026
Many big tech firms are over-promising and under-delivering on AI, warned health data experts at
National NHS chief digital, data and tech officer appointed
30 March 2026
Rob Thompson has been appointed chief digital, data and technology officer across the Department of
Cheshire trusts optimising shared EPR following go-live
30 March 2026
East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are continuing to optimise
Manchester trust to expand use of Microsoft’s AI tools
30 March 2026
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is expanding the use of AI tools across its
Only 30% of trusts with EPRs have integrated data flows, finds DMA
27 March 2026
The 2025 Digital Maturity Assessment shows 93% of NHS providers use EPRs but only 30%
