The Forgotten Patients: Is the digital NHS leaving people behind?
28 April 2026
This special report from Unplugged explores whether the NHSās shift to digital is improving access to healthcare or creating new barriers.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā
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.
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 Ā£100k for renal care app study
27 April 2026
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has been awarded almost Ā£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 Ā£400m
24 April 2026
The cost of implementing a digital records system for Northern Irelandās health trusts has soared to Ā£400 million.
Boots and Cegedim announced 5-year partnership for pharmacy IT
12 May 2021
The contract will see the company continue to provide clinical decision support data and NHS
Queen’s speech: Government to ‘lay foundations’ for more integrated care
11 May 2021
Reiterating plans to embed Integrated Care Systems in law the Queen introduced the Health and
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals abandons Ā£400m EPR tender
11 May 2021
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals issued the tender in August 2020 but stopped the procurement due to
NHS England to ‘substantially’ widen digital staff passport programme
11 May 2021
A prior information notice revealed NHS England and Improvement are looking to expand the digital
Electronic repeat dispensing code saves GPs more than 90,000 hours
11 May 2021
When the pandemic hit more GPs were relying on electronic repeat dispensing services to provide
