Digital Healthâs 2025 Review: Top 10 most read opinion pieces
The government’s NHS 10 year health plan was a key theme in several of Digital Health’s most-read columns in 2025.
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The government’s NHS 10 year health plan was a key theme in several of Digital Health’s most-read columns in 2025.

Christmas bloat aside, the NHS App is in danger of becoming bloated with modules of additional functionality, writes Professor Joe McDonald.
Clinician-scientist Professor Hutan Ashrafian on how the NHS can unlock the potential of AI to transform patient care.

Cutting digital capability at a time when it’s needed most risks long-term consequences, writes John Mitchell of the ICS Digital Council
The NHS must avoid AI’s seductive overdiagnosis trap, writes Professor Christina Pagel, director of UCLâs clinical operational research unit

The governmentâs ‘shift to digital’ isn’t achievable without teams that can deliver it, writes Natalie
Increasing pressures on maternity services mean we need innovative ways to deliver essential training, writes
We must understand what responsible AI adoption requires for the NHS, writes Prof Alicja Rudnicka

The ‘shift to digital’ poses unique opportunities and challenges for social care, writes Kathryn Marsden,
A new commission will help ensure that the UK’s regulatory system can cope with AI,