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

Investing in digitally-powered prevention could change the outlook for children and young people’s mental health,
We must make neighbourhood care the default model of health and care delivery, writes Laura
Legacy systems pose increasing risks due inadequate clinical safety assurance, write Kimberley Dawson, Ben Jeeves

Current safety standards can’t keep up with AI, writes Yvette Khozam, ePMA lead pharmacist at
The NHS holds vast stores of data it cannot use or sell. Synthesised data is