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Phillipa Winter receives the CIO of the year award at the Digital Health Summer Schools 2018

2018 Digital Health Award Winner Profile: Phillipa Winter

7 September 2018

In the first of our series profiling the winners of the inaugural Digital Health Awards, Owen Hughes speak to Philippa Winter – victor in the

Digital Jam

Digital jam for NHS providers a welcome start

30 August 2018

The news that the 80% of English NHS providers not part of the GDE programme will receive funds for digitisation is welcome. But, argues Digital

Digital natives will change the way we think about healthcare delivery

29 August 2018

There are plenty of reasons to embrace the march of artificial intelligence in healthcare, argue Tristan Allen and Diane Bell. But perhaps its true potential

Joe’s View: On the value of patient-centric records

23 August 2018

A drama at sea has led Joe McDonald to consider the value of patient-centric health records. Could they finally resolve the Gordian Knot of information

The exterior of Whiston Hospital

The benefits of remote control at St Helens and Knowsley

22 August 2018

After a six-month trial, staff at St Helens and Knowsley have become more convinced than ever before of the potential of telemedicine. Owen Hughes visited

Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention services at NHS England

Rachel Hope: ‘Preventing ill health requires a huge shift in attitude’

20 March 2026

Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention services at NHSE, explains how the NHS App is

Professor Ben Goldacre, director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Ben Goldacre: ‘GP data is the jewel in the crown of English health data’

18 March 2026

Using data to optimise care is the next great horizon, writes Prof Ben Goldacre, director

Yvette Khozam, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust and Essex Partnership University NHS FT

We can fix the hidden flaws in ambient voice technology

16 March 2026

Don’t put up with clinical notes that are “subtly wrong” and vulnerable to hackers, writes

Clinicians wouldn’t ‘just try’ an experimental drug — so why AI?

13 March 2026

Clinical decision support needs the same robust governance as medicine, writes Jordan Fulcher, clinical solutions

Professor Andy Hardy, chief executive, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

EPRs are one of the greatest obstacles to preventative medicine

11 March 2026

EPRs must enable precision health, writes Professor Andy Hardy, CEO of University Hospitals Coventry and

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Time to rethink how we evaluate digital technologies in healthcare

Digital Transformation

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Joe McDonald: ‘The single patient record is too big to succeed’

10 Year Health Plan

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Morley: ‘We need greater regulation of ambient voice technologies’

AI and Data

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Embedding PHM at the heart of the Model ICB

Integrated Care

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Andy Hardy: ‘It’s unbelievable we don’t all have sight of patient records’

AI and Data

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’

AI and Data

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Allied health professionals must be proactive and ‘seek out’ AI

AI and Data

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Can the NHS 10 year health plan fix health tech procurement?

10 Year Health Plan

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

The importance of human touch in Wes Streeting’s digital NHS

Opinion

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Balancing innovation and compliance in FemTech regulation

AI and Data