Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
11 November 2025
This edition of Coffee Time includes an interactive Data Explorer on planetary health diet and in innovation call from the UNITE consortium.
News
Technology increasingly cited as reason for NHS staff leaving jobs
11 November 2025
More staff than ever before are leaving healthcare due to digital technologies, according to the deputy director of the NHS Digital Academy.
Delays to joint EPR programme could cost trusts £1m a month
10 November 2025
Delays to a joint EPR at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust could cost around £1m a month.
GPs vote to refuse changes to online consultation access
10 November 2025
Doctors’ leaders have voted in favour of GP practices refusing to comply with online consultation tool requirements.
Digital transformation central to new ICB commissioning framework
10 November 2025
Digital transformation and data-driven intelligence will be central to how ICBs plan and buy services, under the new commissioning framework.
NHS trust trials tech-enabled pathway for colorectal cancer patients
7 November 2025
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals is trialling a tech-enabled pathway to provide digital prehabilitation services for colorectal cancer.
Movers and Shakers news roundup
7 November 2025
This roundup includes the immediate departure of Sir Julian Hartley as chief executive of the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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
