Scotland’s ‘Digital Front Door’ to launch this year, says first minister
27 January 2025
John Swinney, first minister for Scotland, has pledged that the country’s ‘Digital Front Door’ platform will launch by the end of 2025.
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Digital staff vacancies at Wirral ‘impacted significantly’ on capacity
27 January 2025
Digital healthcare staff vacancies were at 12.5% and “impacted significantly on operational capacity” at Wirral Uni Teaching Hospital NHS FT.
Pitchfest finalist Surgery Hero acquired by Sword Health
27 January 2025
Digital Health Pitchfest competition finalist Surgery Hero has been bought by global AI care company Sword Health.
SurgeOn social networking app for doctors launches in the UK
24 January 2025
SurgeOn, a social networking platform aimed at improving patient care across the globe, is now available in the NHS.
Service launched to manage NHS weight loss medication demand
24 January 2025
A self-referral service has been launched to help healthcare organisations manage demand for new weight loss medications.
Pitchfest finalist Kidney Beam secures seed funding for app
24 January 2025
An evidence-based kidney care app has secured £610,000 in seed funding, including a sizeable contribution from charity Kidney Research UK.
Synnovis cyber attack caused two cases of severe patient harm
23 January 2025
Two patients have suffered long-term or permanent damage to their health as a result of the cyber attack on NHS pathology provider Synnovis.
Graphnet buys patient monitoring specialist Docobo
15 November 2021
Shared care records provider Graphnet has acquired remote patient monitoring specialist Docobo, it has been
DigitalHealth.London looks back and ahead for its fifth birthday
15 November 2021
To celebrate its fifth birthday, DigitalHealth.London has published a document which delves into what the
More startups added to Yorkshire and Humber accelerator programme
12 November 2021
This year’s participants in Yorkshire & Humber’s Academic Health Science Network’s digital health accelerator, Propel@YH,
Industry news in brief
12 November 2021
The latest Digital Health News industry round up includes a project to reduce urgent care
NHSX delivers remote blood pressure monitoring devices to patients
11 November 2021
NHSX has purchased 220,000 blood pressure monitoring devices which it intends to send to at-risk
