Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
12 June 2025
Today’s news roundup covers new interpreting systems in Walsall and pioneering virtual mental healthcare in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
News
NHSE creating national population health management tool for FDP
12 June 2025
NHSE is working with NHS Frimley ICB to create a population health management tool which will run on the federated data platform (FDP).
Digital health sector reacts to ‘record’ investment in NHS
12 June 2025
The digital health sector has reacted to the government’s Spending Review, which included up to £10bn of investment in tech for the NHS.
Government to invest up to £10bn to bring NHS ‘into the digital age’
11 June 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that the government will invest £10bn in NHS tech, as part of the latest spending review.
Better Meds and BD partner to advance medication management
11 June 2025
BD Pyxis automated dispensing cabinets are being integrated with Better Meds’ electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA).
NHSE projects 500k robotic assisted operations a year by 2035
11 June 2025
Half a million operations will be supported by robotic surgery every year by 2035, up from 70,000 in 2023/24, according to NHSE projections.
UPMC Ireland to implement MEDITECH Expanse EPR
11 June 2025
Global healthcare provider UPMC Ireland has confirmed it will implement the MEDITECH Expanse electronic patient record (EPR).
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust deploys e-prescribing tool
18 May 2022
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is using a new digital tool to manage prescriptions, which
Mid and South Essex ICS deploys unified patient tracking list
17 May 2022
Mid and South Essex ICS is tackling its elective care wait list with a solution
Royal Surrey deploys tech to improve patient experiences
17 May 2022
Royal Surrey has launched a digital toolbox to manage pre-op assessments, and is also trialling
Goldacre says TREs will mitigate harmful data risks and ‘earn public trust’
16 May 2022
Professor Ben Goldacre has told the Science and Tech Committee that Trusted Research Environments (TREs)
Imperial College London to collaborate with Allocate for staffing tools
16 May 2022
Imperial College London has agreed a deal with Allocate Software for its patient acuity methodologies
