Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
16 June 2026
Today’s briefing features enhanced cancer-killing agents technology and an AI model for NHS Care Navigation.
News
MHRA launches AI sandbox to improve medicines safety
16 June 2026
The MHRA is launching a new AI regulatory sandbox to improve medicines safety and accelerate the development of new treatments.
New genetic ancestry data to tackle health inequalities
15 June 2026
Our Future Health has released genetic ancestry data from 755,000 participants, enabling researchers to tackle health inequalities.
NHS leaders call time on AI pilots and demand national scaling
15 June 2026
Senior NHS digital leaders have called for an end to repeated AI pilots, arguing that the focus must now shift to implementation and scaling.
Ashford and St Peter’s opt for RLDatix electronic rostering
12 June 2026
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed RLDatix to deliver its electronic rostering platform, Allocate Optima.
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
12 June 2026
This roundup includes EPR go-lives, following delays, at both North Cumbria Integrated Care and York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals.
Digital Health Summer Schools 2026 full programme published
11 June 2026
Digital Health has published the full Summer Schools 2026 programme, featuring some of the NHS’s most influential digital leaders.
New £3m fund for innovative technology to improve asthma care
28 October 2020
The fund will support the development and adoption of scalable and effective asthma health technologies,
Hospitals to implement digital menus under food review led by Prue Leith
28 October 2020
The review suggests electronic food ordering systems can be linked to electronic patient records for
McKinsey pockets £600k for seven-week review into NHS tech leadership
27 October 2020
A heavily redacted contract does not disclose details of the services required of McKinsey or
NHS Covid-19 App does work on iPhone 12 despite error messages
27 October 2020
The error message occurs if the NHS Covid-19 App is transferred to the new device
Manchester hospitals deploy remote monitoring tech for Covid patients
27 October 2020
Two Manchester hospitals have implemented Patient Status Engine, a remote monitoring platform that monitors patients
