Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
28 April 2026
Today’s briefing features an AI method to identify bowel cancer drug patients and an online pharmacy sponsoring ITV panel show Loose Women.
News
Medical device supplier Medtronic hit with cyber attack
28 April 2026
Medical device supplier Medtronic has been hit with a cyber attack that led to unauthorised access to some of its IT systems.
Portsmouth Hospitals awarded £100k for renal care app study
27 April 2026
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has been awarded almost £100k to explore how an app could improve kidney care for patients.
Dartford and Gravesham goes live with digital maternity system
27 April 2026
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has gone live with the K2 Maternity Information System, delivered by Harris Health Alliance.
GP practice outages caused by IT firewall issue
27 April 2026
A network outage which disrupted access to clinical systems at several GP surgeries was caused by an issue with the practices’ IT firewalls.
Cost of Northern Ireland’s digital care record rises to £400m
24 April 2026
The cost of implementing a digital records system for Northern Ireland’s health trusts has soared to £400 million.
Sheffield introduces surgical robot to advance cancer care
24 April 2026
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has unveiled a new robotic-assisted surgery system to advance cancer care.
Data Strategy: Patients to get easier access to medical data through NHS App
22 June 2021
Under the NHSX draft data strategy, patients will gain better access to their health records
NHS Digital CEO says organisation needs to ‘face GPDPR challenge’
21 June 2021
The interim CEO at NHS Digital has said the organisation needs to ‘face the challenge’
Data strategy for health and care to be published this week
21 June 2021
The draft strategy is expected to promote technology including robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and
Nine NHS organisations to partner on Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
21 June 2021
Nine NHS organisations have been selected as partners to join the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme,
NHS App reaches over 6m users following Covid-19 vaccine status launch
19 June 2021
The inclusion of the Covid-19 vaccination status on the NHS app on 17 May has
