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.
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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.
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 Covid-19 contact-tracing app launched in England and Wales
24 September 2020
After months of uncertainty the NHS contact-tracing app has today launched in England and Wales,
Bradford Teaching Hospitals ditches paper for digital appointment letters
23 September 2020
The digital letters are currently being piloted in the ophthalmology and paediatrics departments with patients
Babylon to face ‘no further action’ for data breach of GP at Hand
23 September 2020
Babylon admitted in June that three patients were able to view recordings of other patient’s
Countess of Chester selects Ideal firm to implement EPR programme
23 September 2020
The Countess of Chester EPR+ programme is using Cerner Millennium electronic patient record after signing
Total cost of NHS contact-tracing app set to top £35 million
22 September 2020
Some £25 million is expected to be spent on the new app, while £10 million
