NHS supplier hit by cyber attack by pro-Iran activist hackers
17 March 2026
The supply of defibrillator products and other medical equipment to the NHS has been affected by a cyber attack by a pro-Iran group.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing â
17 March 2026
Today’s briefing features a UK charity that uses AI to identify medicines that could be repurposed to treat rare genetic conditions.
De-identified UK Biobank health data accidentally published online
17 March 2026
UK Biobank has confirmed that volunteers’ de-identified health data has sometimes been unintentionally published online by researchers.
Why NHS innovation stalls
17 March 2026
Mindy Simon of the NHS Innovation Accelerator, and Elina Naydenova of Feebris, discuss the barriers to scaling innovation in the NHS.
Study finds virtual treatment can benefit eating disorder patients
16 March 2026
Research from Oxford Health has found that virtual treatment can help prevent admissions and support recovery for eating disorder patients.
Feedback Medical and Patients Know Best announce partnership
16 March 2026
A partnership will bring together Feedback Medical’s elective care platform with Patients Know Best’s personal health record solution.
Child rapist could have profiled victims through NHS data access
16 March 2026
A former NHS analyst and convicted child rapist could have used unaudited database queries to profile his victims.
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
