Nottingham reduces heart patient visits
11 March 2014
12:00 AM
A new clinic at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has helped to halve the number of hospital visits for many patients with heart valve disease.
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EHI Intelligence forecasts IT growth
10 March 2014
9:00 AM
NHS spending on IT will increase over the next five years in response to pressures on the health service, and English trust spending will reach £1.6 billion by 2016-17, an EHI Intelligence report has found.
Four South trusts tender for ePMA
10 March 2014
12:00 AM
Four southern acute trusts have tendered for an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system worth £5m-£7m, backed by central funding.
Rotherham asks Monitor to back off
10 March 2014
12:00 AM
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is to ask Monitor to relax its oversight of its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record programme.
US and UK take forward health IT MoU
7 March 2014
12:00 AM
The US and UK are working together on harmonising quality indicators, releasing and using health data, the Blue Button initiative, and the interoperability of electronic patient record systems, under their memorandum of understanding on healthcare IT.
HSCIC to audit data releases by 2 April
6 March 2014
11:52 AM
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will take four weeks to audit the data releases of its predecessor, the NHS Information Centre, following intense public scrutiny of the bodies to which it released patient information.
GP IT funding split evenly nationwide
6 March 2014
12:00 AM
GP IT funding will be paid to clinical commissioning groups on a per-head-of-population basis under new plans revealed by NHS England.
AI project aims to reduce disability caused by strokes
1 May 2025
A research project from the University of Exeter is using AI to personalise stroke care
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing 
1 May 2025
Our coffee time briefing covers a two-year contract extension for Hitachi and a pilot of
NHS Trust raises concerns over digital workforce shortage
1 May 2025
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals has raised concerns that its digital team is “poorly
NICE recommends AI skin cancer detection system for NHS use
1 May 2025
Skin Analytics’ AI system that detects potential skin cancer has been conditionally recommended by NICE
NHS CDIO David Walliker to speak at Summer Schools 2025
30 April 2025
Experienced NHS chief digital officer Professor David Walliker is the latest speaker to be announced
