Northumbria Healthcare acquires software provider Health Call
14 March 2025
11:00 AM
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has acquired Health Call Solutions Limited to increase its range of software products.
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Movers and Shakers news roundup
14 March 2025
8:30 AM
This Movers and Shakers roundup focuses on departures at NHS England, following government announcements that it will lose half of its staff.
Keir Starmer announces plan to abolish NHS England
13 March 2025
11:48 AM
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced plans to bring NHS England back into the Department of Health and Social Care.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing 
13 March 2025
11:30 AM
Today’s news briefing covers InterSystems’ new IntelliCare EHR, seed funding for Ignota Labs, and The King’s Fund’s Social Care 360 report.
£10m boost for augmented reality glasses to help gamify physio
13 March 2025
11:00 AM
Strolll, a company that uses augmented reality (AR) glasses to help patients with neurological disorders, has secured £10.35m in funding.
More than 5,000 vital NHS screenings missed due to IT oversight
13 March 2025
8:30 AM
An admin error meant more than 5,200 patients weren’t invited to routine screening because their details didn’t reach the right IT systems.
Technology enabled care programme extended in West Midlands
12 March 2025
1:30 PM
A West Midlands adult social care programme that uses digital tech to help citizens live safely at home for longer has been extended.
Patient record errors caused by ‘lack of integration’, finds report
2 May 2025
Lack of integration between the NHS App and other health data sources has contributed to
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
