MedTech qualifications launched to tackle 145,000 skills shortage
12 December 2025
New qualifications have been launched to plug skills gaps in the UK’s MedTech sector, with an estimated 145,000 jobs needed by 2035.
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Digital Healthâs monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
12 December 2025
Our roundup of new contracts features Oracle Health supplying an EPR for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.
UK and Singapore launch regulatory ‘innovation corridor’
12 December 2025
The UK and Singapore have launched a regulatory ‘innovation corridor’ to fast-track major medical advances and promising health technologies.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing â
11 December 2025
Today’s briefing features a therapy app that uses movement to make music and ÂŁ27.3m funding for biomedical and health research.
Initiative launched for the safe use of agentic AI in health and care
11 December 2025
An initiative called ‘TrustX’ has been launched to help verify, deploy, and test agentic AI for use across the NHS and social care.
Staffordshire County Council to adopt social care platform
10 December 2025
Staffordshire County Council will adopt System Câs social care platform for adult and childrenâs case management.
Patients being told serious diagnoses via NHS App
10 December 2025
A charity has called for systematic changes to stop patients from discovering disease diagnosis through the NHS App without proper support.Â
Report calls for greater tech integration in adult social care
21 July 2021
Assistive technology should be key to the governmentâs planned reforms within the social care sector,
Trio of firms partner up to introduce smart tech into supported housing
21 July 2021
A trio of firms has partnered to integrate smart technology into a new housing development
Genetic testing for cancer patients now available digitally across Wales
21 July 2021
An update to the Welsh Clinical Portal allows doctors to access genetic testing results, enabling
Transgender charity Mermaids fined ÂŁ25k for data protection breach
20 July 2021
The transgender charity has been fined ÂŁ25,000 by the Information Commissionerâs Office (ICO) for failing
GPDPR September implementation date is scrapped
20 July 2021
The implementation date of the GPDPR programme has been scrapped and instead data collection will
