Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
28 October 2025
Today’s Coffee Time includes ORCHA’s new standard for digital health safety and a HealthTech accelerator programme in West Yorkshire.
News
NHS AI trial to diagnose prostate cancer up to a month faster
28 October 2025
An AI-powered service for prostate cancer which can spot lesions in minutes will be trialled in the NHS to help speed up diagnosis for men.
NHS AI procurement must be more flexible, says national CCIO
28 October 2025
NHS AI procurement must be more flexible to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, said the national CCIO for England.
Period tracking app allows women to order free NHS contraception
27 October 2025
Healthcare platform Evaro has partnered with Clue to provide access to NHS-funded contraception through the firm’s period-tracking app.
CQC warns ‘digital by default’ could deepen NHS inequalities
27 October 2025
The CQC has warned that the NHS’s shift to digital risks excluding vulnerable patients and widening existing health inequalities.
NHS trusts to be measured on electronic services adoption
27 October 2025
NHS trusts will be measured on their adoption of electronic services and NHS App integration, according to new guidance from NHS England.
Female-founded UK HealthTech startup reaches unicorn status
24 October 2025
Female-founded health tech company SheMed has reached unicorn status after a $50 million (£37.3m) raise taking its valuation to $1bn (£750m).
Virtual wards remote care platform contract awarded to Current Health
30 June 2022
An NHS contract for a virtual wards programme remote care platform worth almost £1million has
Sector reacts to government’s digital health and care plan
29 June 2022
We have pulled together some of the best reaction from the healthcare IT sector to
Still time to apply for Shuri Network’s nursing and midwifery fellowship
29 June 2022
The Fellowship has been developed specifically to support ethnic minority nurses and midwives interested in
Digital health and care plan reveals £2bn will be allocated to digitise sector
29 June 2022
The digital health and social care plan has been published and reveals that £2bn has
Digital Health Unplugged: The Networks Advisory Panel Chairs
28 June 2022
The three chairs of the Networks Advisory Panels are the latest guests to join Jordan
