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Green Energy

The importance of greening our working lives

11 November 2021

Mark Reynolds, NHS Digital’s CTO, discusses the sustainability challenges that face the digital sector and how the organisation plans to tackle them.

David Hancock

How sharing data can make us healthier

9 November 2021

David Hancock, healthcare executive advisor at InterSystems, explores why he thinks data sharing can enhance the quality of healthcare.

Chris Sawyer

Bringing the right care at the right time during Covid-19

2 November 2021

Chris Sawyer from Innovate UK discusses innovators who’ve helped strengthen the health service and bring the right care at the right time during Covid.

Industry Spotlight: Ryan Irwin, senior health network strategy executive, Cerner

27 October 2021

Ryan Irwin’s career trajectory has rocketed from martial artist to NHS director. Now working for Cerner, he uses population-wide data to help improve individual health.

Visionable & SameYou announce partnership to improve & innovate brain rehabilitation and recovery

26 October 2021

Visionable has partnered with SameYou, Emilia Clarke’s charity that helps to increase and improve neurorehabilitation provision for brain injury survivors, to deliver a global digital

Outsourcing won’t fix the NHS digital workforce gap

2 March 2026

The NHS’ shift to digital requires a permanent, digital workforce, writes Lee Rickles, CIO at

Dr Marc Farr, chair of the Chief Data and Analytics Network and national chair of the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA)

Marc Farr: We’re trying to be a critical friend to the FDP

25 February 2026

Marc Farr, chair of the Chief Data and Analytical Officer Network, explains why we must

Andy Callow, chief digital and transformation officer at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH)

It’s not technology that makes or breaks an EPR go-live

23 February 2026

Leadership, trust, and relationships can make or break an EPR go-live, writes Andy Callow, CDIO

Alastair Denniston, chair of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare

Alastair Denniston: ‘Regulation of AI must be able to flex’

18 February 2026

Prof Alastair Denniston, chair of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare,

Will Monaghan, group chief digital information officer at University Hospitals of Leicester and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire

Will Monaghan: ‘We’re seeing enormous value from the FDP’

11 February 2026

Will Monaghan, CDIO at at University Hospitals of Leicester and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire, on

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Time to rethink how we evaluate digital technologies in healthcare

Digital Transformation

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

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

10 Year Health Plan

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

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

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Embedding PHM at the heart of the Model ICB

Integrated Care

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

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

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

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

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

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

10 Year Health Plan

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

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

Opinion

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Balancing innovation and compliance in FemTech regulation

AI and Data