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
As the NHS shifts to digital we must continue to make space for human connection,
The 10 year plan’s technology aspirations are plausible, but glaring omissions need to be addressed,
The NHS App will give patients more power, but digital professionals must ensure no one

Digital is at the heart of the new NHS plan, but it is let down

AHPs should not wait for AI to come to them, write physiotherapists and AI Fellows