Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
10 April 2025
Today’s coffee briefing covers a remote monitoring initiative in Wales and Royal Oldham Hospital’s new automated laboratory system, FlexLab X.
News
NHS must move EPR use beyond digitising paper, warns report
10 April 2025
The NHS risks missing out on the full benefits of EPRs unless a national strategy is put in place, warns think tank.
Qualification launched to teach digital leadership in adult social care
10 April 2025
Wes Streeting, health secretary, has announced the launch of a qualification to teach care leaders the skills to use and deploy technology.
EU project launched to connect health data of three million citizens
9 April 2025
A project to help connect electronic health record (EHR) systems across Europe has received €8 million from the European Commission.
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare goes live with imaging solution
9 April 2025
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution to connect radiologists in South East England.
Wes Streeting pledges to retain digital workforce amid NHS reforms
9 April 2025
Wes Streeting, health secretary, confirmed the government’s commitment to retaining the digital workforce amid the abolition of NHS England.
Digital tools introduced to help improve elective recovery in Kent
8 April 2025
A patient optimisation eForm and a hospice data feed in Kent is now live to help improve prehabilitation and elective recovery for patients.
NHS England recruiting for CDIO of online hospital trust
22 June 2026
NHS England is recruiting for a chief digital information officer (CDIO) for its new online
Powys Teaching Health Board goes live with Better ePMA
22 June 2026
Powys Teaching Health Board (PTHB) has gone live an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA)
Essex Partnership digital tool improves leg wound and ulcer care
19 June 2026
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has introduced a digital tool to improve care for
West Midlands NHS imaging programme enters procurement
19 June 2026
An NHS imaging transformation programme serving 6.6 million people across the West Midlands has entered
Health minister apologises for NHSE error on FDP data access
18 June 2026
Health minister Preet Kaur Gill has apologised for NHSE’s handling of information provided to the
