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.
News
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.
Workplace pressures holding back NHS digital plans, finds survey
8 December 2025
Workforce pressures are the biggest blocker to digital transformation, according to research carried out by Digital Health.
NHS maternity dashboard launched to prevent tragedies
8 December 2025
A national dashboard is being rolled out across NHS maternity services to help spot serious safety issues and prevent neonatal tragedies.
PRSB to relaunch in 2026 with new funding model
8 December 2025
Exclusive: The Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB) will relaunch in 2026 with a revised funding model, after NHSE ceased core funding.
AI-guided mental health tool piloted at GP surgeries
5 December 2025
An AI-guided digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tool to help manage mental health problems is being piloted in GP surgeries.
Four in five care providers using digital social care records
5 December 2025
Four in five (80%) of care providers have replaced paper-based processes with digital social care records, the government has announced.
Scotland gets National Digital Platform to improve data access
8 December 2022
People in Scotland will soon have improved access to their data thanks to the launch
First four regional secure data environments confirmed
8 December 2022
Four initial sites will be awarded a slice of £100 million funding by NHS England
Guy’s and St Thomas’ sign contract with Radar Healthcare
7 December 2022
Radar Healthcare has won a contract with Guy’s and St Thomas’ to consolidate existing risk
Camden Council pilot uses mobile care tech to get patients home quicker
7 December 2022
A small trial from Camden Council and Oysta is seeing medically-fit patients discharged from hospital
Baywater Healthcare treats over 7,000 patients with virtual ward service
7 December 2022
More than 7,000 patients have benefited from Baywater Healthcare’s virtual ward service which is being
