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).
Report calls for greater tech integration in adult social care
21 July 2021
Assistive technology should be key to the government’s 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 £25k for data protection breach
20 July 2021
The transgender charity has been fined £25,000 by the Information Commissioner’s 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
