£60m of digital mental health funding goes on exemplars
10 January 2017
The vast major of £67.7m funding announced for mental health will go on six new global digital exemplars, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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May announces £67.7 million for digital mental health
9 January 2017
Money will be spent on digitally assisted therapy and online symptom checkers.
NY death investigated for links to London Ambulance IT crash
9 January 2017
An investigation will determined whether IT problems at the London Ambulance Service contributed to the death in the early hours of New Years’ Day.
Wearable Parkinson’s system gets CE marking
9 January 2017
Health monitoring device and software gets rare Europe stamp of approval as NHS examines news ways to assess patient facing health software.
Former NHS IT director jailed for corruption
6 January 2017
In return for signing off a million-dollar IT contract his trust didn’t need, Peter Lewis was secretly paid more £90,000.
Babylon Health to power NHS 111 with ‘AI triage’ bot
5 January 2017
An a chatbot app will field less serious health complaints from 1.2 million NHS patients in North Central London as part of a NHS 111 pilot.
North East and Yorkshire trusts adopt tech for faster scan results
10 July 2026
NHS England is expanding the rollout of Hexarad to help patients in the North East
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
10 July 2026
Our latest roundup features Powys Teaching Health Board rolling out an electronic prescribing and medicines
NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive cancer exams for women
9 July 2026
Thousands of women could avoid invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected womb cancer under an NHS
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board rolls out Better ePMA
9 July 2026
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has begun rolling out the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
NHS staff to face sack or prison for unlawful patient data access
8 July 2026
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has said NHS staff face the sack or
