King’s pilots digital prehab for hip and knee replacement patients
17 June 2026
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has launched a digital prehab trial for patients awaiting hip and knee replacement surgery.
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FT analysis suggests FDP benefits are very uneven
16 June 2026
A report in the FT suggests waiting list reductions attributed to the FDP are heavily driven by figures from a small number of NHS hospitals.
The Single Patient Record: revolutionising care or rewriting trust?
16 June 2026
Jordan Sollof is joined at NHS ConfedExpo 2026 by Dr Peter Thomas and Kate Warriner for a deep dive into the proposed single patient record.
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
16 June 2026
Today’s briefing features enhanced cancer-killing agents technology and an AI model for NHS Care Navigation.
MHRA launches AI sandbox to improve medicines safety
16 June 2026
The MHRA is launching a new AI regulatory sandbox to improve medicines safety and accelerate the development of new treatments.
New genetic ancestry data to tackle health inequalities
15 June 2026
Our Future Health has released genetic ancestry data from 755,000 participants, enabling researchers to tackle health inequalities.
NHS leaders call time on AI pilots and demand national scaling
15 June 2026
Senior NHS digital leaders have called for an end to repeated AI pilots, arguing that the focus must now shift to implementation and scaling.
Applications now open for Digital Pioneer Fellowship to grow innovation
17 August 2020
The 12-month Digital Pioneer Fellowship aims to support innovators employed by the health service to
Government seeks new national data guardian to oversee NHS
14 August 2020
The data guardian is expected to act as an independent champion for patients and the
New IT purchasing framework ‘could save NHS £75million’
14 August 2020
The Digital Workplace Solutions Framework aims to help the NHS and public sector organisations procure
Mobile health apps news in brief
14 August 2020
This month’s mobile apps round-up features news about a trial of the revamped NHS contact-tracing
Covid-19: New trial for England’s revamped NHS contact-tracing app
13 August 2020
A trial for the new look NHS contact-tracing app has been launched today after NHSX
