Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
1 July 2025
This edition includes a closer look at concerns on the UK’s approach to regulating AI in healthcare and digital support for unpaid carers.
News
Cost of NI patient record system rises to £360m
1 July 2025
The cost of the encompass digital records system for Northern Irish health trusts is now expected to reach £360m.
AI system to identify unsafe care ‘before it becomes a tragedy’
30 June 2025
An AI early warning system is being developed, as part of the 10 year health plan, to automatically identify safety concerns across the NHS.
All-female line-up of Digital Health advisory panel chairs elected
30 June 2025
An all-female line-up of Digital Health Networks advisory panel chairs has been elected for the first time.
The NHS 10 year health plan: What do we know so far?
30 June 2025
As the publication of the 10 year health plan approaches, Digital Health News editor Tammy Lovell takes a look at what we know so far.
NHS App could offer AI-driven mental health support
27 June 2025
Patients will get better access to mental health support through the NHS App under the NHS 10 year health plan, the DHSC has announced.
Scotland’s Digital Front Door app launch ‘may be underwhelming’
27 June 2025
Scotland’s version of the NHS App will only be available to dermatology patients in one area initially, the government has confirmed.
Trials of the NHS Covid-19 App ‘not a waste of time’
29 September 2020
Wolfgang Emmerich, founder of Zühlke Engineering, said “I don’t think it [the trial] was wasted”
Chelsea and Westminster partner up with The Burdett Trust for fellowship
29 September 2020
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered up with The Burdett Trust for
Liverpool University chooses Better way to teach e-prescribing
29 September 2020
The university is set to use Better’s OPENeP electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) solution
South London and Maudsley deploys digital care assistant
28 September 2020
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has begun using Oxehealth’s digital care assistant on
NHS Covid-19 app downloaded 10 million times since launch
28 September 2020
Some six million people downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app on the first day it was
