Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
9 December 2025
Today’s round includes innovations in robotic colon surgery and research into how comfortable patients are confiding in AI.
News
AI note-taking tool helps speed up autism and ADHD assessments
9 December 2025
An NHS provider of ADHD and autism assessments found that using an AI clinical note-taking tool helped to reduce admin time for clinicians.
Workplace pressures holding back NHS digital plans, finds survey
8 December 2025
Workforce pressures are the biggest blocker to digital transformation, according to research carried out by Digital Health.
NHS maternity dashboard launched to prevent tragedies
8 December 2025
A national dashboard is being rolled out across NHS maternity services to help spot serious safety issues and prevent neonatal tragedies.
PRSB to relaunch in 2026 with new funding model
8 December 2025
Exclusive: The Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB) will relaunch in 2026 with a revised funding model, after NHSE ceased core funding.
AI-guided mental health tool piloted at GP surgeries
5 December 2025
An AI-guided digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tool to help manage mental health problems is being piloted in GP surgeries.
Four in five care providers using digital social care records
5 December 2025
Four in five (80%) of care providers have replaced paper-based processes with digital social care records, the government has announced.
Mental health trust deploys Servelec’s patient management solution
9 November 2020
Using the Servelec’s Flow solution the trust gains an end-to-end view of a patient journey,
NHS withstands hundreds of cyber crime incidents relating to Covid-19
9 November 2020
More than 160 “high-risk and critical vulnerabilities” were shared with NHS trusts to raise awareness
DHSC must still learn the lessons of its failed IT programmes
6 November 2020
DHSC and the NHS have a “long way to go” to deal with the legacy
Gould and Wilkinson talk NHS digital transformation lessons
6 November 2020
Matthew Gould has said that while “huge progress” has been made, the potential of digital
NHS Covid-19 app compatible across Scotland along with others
6 November 2020
The NHS Covid-19 App is now compatible with contact-tracing apps across Scotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey
