Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
11 November 2025
This edition of Coffee Time includes an interactive Data Explorer on planetary health diet and in innovation call from the UNITE consortium.
News
Technology increasingly cited as reason for NHS staff leaving jobs
11 November 2025
More staff than ever before are leaving healthcare due to digital technologies, according to the deputy director of the NHS Digital Academy.
Delays to joint EPR programme could cost trusts £1m a month
10 November 2025
Delays to a joint EPR at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust could cost around £1m a month.
GPs vote to refuse changes to online consultation access
10 November 2025
Doctors’ leaders have voted in favour of GP practices refusing to comply with online consultation tool requirements.
Digital transformation central to new ICB commissioning framework
10 November 2025
Digital transformation and data-driven intelligence will be central to how ICBs plan and buy services, under the new commissioning framework.
NHS trust trials tech-enabled pathway for colorectal cancer patients
7 November 2025
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals is trialling a tech-enabled pathway to provide digital prehabilitation services for colorectal cancer.
Movers and Shakers news roundup
7 November 2025
This roundup includes the immediate departure of Sir Julian Hartley as chief executive of the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust introduces VR training
17 August 2021
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has introduced virtual reality (VR) training to improve learning amongst its
University Hospitals Plymouth goes live with Hospital at Night
17 August 2021
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is continuing its digital transformation with the introduction of Nervecentre’s
New £250m intelligent automation framework set to be launched
16 August 2021
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has issued a tender calling for intelligent automation (IA) vendors
Royal Free Hospital trials app for liver disease patients
16 August 2021
A study of 20 patients at the Royal Free Hospital found that using the CirrhoCare
Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT launches start-up accelerator programme
16 August 2021
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has launched an accelerator programme for tech start-ups to
