Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
27 November 2025
Today’s briefing includes how brain stimulation can prevent depression relapses of major depressive disorder in 75% of patients.
News
MPs call for NHS to rely on UK tech firms instead of US giants
27 November 2025
MPs called for the government to prioritise UK companies for big NHS tech contracts, rather than US giants like Microsoft and Palantir.
AI testing platform removes commercial bias for NHS use
27 November 2025
Researchers have developed a platform to determine whether commercial AI algorithms are fit for NHS use to detect diabetic eye disease.
Concerns that capital funding for NHS tech could delay AI roll-out
26 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to invest £300 million of additional capital investment in NHS technology in the Autumn Budget.
High risk groups under-represented in Men’s Health Strategy
26 November 2025
Younger men are under-represented in the government’s Men’s Health Strategy, according to a neuroscience tech firm.
Blackwood appointed as chair of the Health Data Research Service
26 November 2025
Baroness Nicola Blackwood, a leader in life sciences and innovation, has been appointed as chair of the Health Data Research Service (HDRS).
Free digital and data training launches for AHPs
25 November 2025
A digital education programme has been launched to provide access to digital and data knowledge for AHPs based in the UK.
NHS Highland looks to tech to help reduce Covid-19 spread in care homes
15 September 2020
NHS Highland is looking to deploy tech in care homes which aims to help reduce
Government announces £500,000 to bolster healthcare cyber security
15 September 2020
It comes as the National Cyber Security Centre identified a heightened cyber threat to the
Digital immunity passports part of government’s plans to ramp up testing
14 September 2020
Under the plans digital immunity passports will be used to allow people who have tested
AI will ‘under deliver’ at first but ‘blow our minds’ in the future
14 September 2020
Speaking at London Tech Week Ali Parsa said the NHS is doing “fantastic” work in
Scotland launches UKs second Covid-19 contact-tracing app
14 September 2020
The Protect Scotland app is designed as an “extra tool” to support the manual contact-tracing
