Movers and Shakers news roundup
25 July 2025
Our latest Movers and Shakers roundup features Dr Paul Rice joining Northern Ireland’s Department of Health (DoH).
News
NHS digital plans risk worsening health inequalities, say academics
25 July 2025
The government’s planned overhaul of the NHS App could leave some people behind, a Brunel University of London professor has argued.
Two NHS hospitals suffer major IT incident ahead of doctors’ strikes
24 July 2025
Two NHS hospitals have resorted to paper after an IT incident brought systems down in the days before the planned resident doctors’ strikes.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
24 July 2025
This Coffee Time Briefing covers an extension of a trial of drones to transport blood samples and funding for Digital Lifelines initiative.
Electronic prescribing to be rolled out at 55 mental health sites
24 July 2025
The Better Meds electronic prescribing and medicine management solution will be rolled out at across 55 mental health sites in the UK.
Scotland’s Hospital at Home service to expand to 2,000 beds
24 July 2025
Scotland’s Hospital at Home service will expand to 2,000 beds by December 2026, following a £85m investment targeted at NHS frailty services.
NHSE seeking £150m deal for ‘personalisation’ of digital services
23 July 2025
NHS England has issued a procurement notice seeking to award a provider a contract to support greater “personalisation” of digital services.
Royal Free to study AI tool for breast cancer screening
4 November 2021
Royal Free is to carry out a retrospective study to determine if AI could potentially
TeleTracking joins Digital Healthcare Council to boost patient tracking
3 November 2021
Through joining the Digital Healthcare Council TeleTracking hopes to help deliver a “digitally-led, patient-centric NHS”.
New standard to improve medicines information sharing set to launch
3 November 2021
It is hoped a standardised approach to sharing medicines information will reduce medicines related errors
Cera to launch 15 digital healthcare hubs across UK
3 November 2021
Cera is launching 15 new digital healthcare hubs which will support older and vulnerable people
NHS saves more than 2 million hours using Microsoft Teams
2 November 2021
In the first six months Microsoft Teams was used across the health service it replaced
