Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
11 December 2025
Today’s briefing features a therapy app that uses movement to make music and £27.3m funding for biomedical and health research.
News
Initiative launched for the safe use of agentic AI in health and care
11 December 2025
An initiative called ‘TrustX’ has been launched to help verify, deploy, and test agentic AI for use across the NHS and social care.
Staffordshire County Council to adopt social care platform
10 December 2025
Staffordshire County Council will adopt System C’s social care platform for adult and children’s case management.
Patients being told serious diagnoses via NHS App
10 December 2025
A charity has called for systematic changes to stop patients from discovering disease diagnosis through the NHS App without proper support.
Patient and staff data stolen in Barts Health cyber attack
9 December 2025
Barts Health NHS Trust is warning patients and staff after hackers exploited a software vulnerability to steal personal information.
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.
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.
Patients Know Best signs re-platform deal with the Renal Association
20 October 2020
Patients Know Best (PKB) has signed a 5-year deal which will see it re-platform the
Tunstall calls for greater investment in technology to protect vulnerable
19 October 2020
It comes as Tunstall Healthcare has developed a remote patient monitoring system to support vulnerable
Police to get access to self-isolation data from NHS Test and Trace
19 October 2020
The Department of Health and Social Care confirmed NHS Test and Trace details would be
Technology ‘sometimes a barrier’ for patients and providers during Covid
19 October 2020
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) annual state of care report found a digital divide between
Greater Manchester NHS trusts pen deal with Sectra for imaging network
16 October 2020
Eight NHS trusts in Greater Manchester have penned a deal with Sectra which will change
