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Andy Burnham, MP for Makerfield and the likely next Prime Minister

What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

25 June 2026

Jon Hoeksma examines what two former health secretaries, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting, running the country might mean for NHS IT investment.

Salma Yasmeen, chief executive of Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Yasmeen: ‘We’ve made sense of the 10 year plan’s vision’

24 June 2026

The absence of a delivery chapter in the NHS 10 year plan drew criticism when it was launched last summer, but it hasn’t been a

Stephen McMillan, strategic partnerships leader at Philips

Industry Spotlight: Stephen McMillan, strategic partnerships leader, Philips

12 June 2026

NHS plans for innovation are often blocked by capital constraints and budget cycles, says Stephen McMillan, strategic partnerships leader.

Professor Kathrin Cresswell, professor of digital innovation in health and care at the University of Edinburgh

Cresswell: ‘Some users are disappointed with ambient scribes’

3 June 2026

Professor Kathrin Cresswell warns that the “heightened expectations” placed on digital technologies can be “very damaging”.

Dr Penny Kechagioglou, consultant oncologist at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire

Penny Kechagioglou: ‘We’ve become too attached to AI’

27 May 2026

Ahead of Digital Health Summer Schools, Dr Penny Kechagioglou discusses clinical leadership and health inequalities.

Dale Greenwood, NHS clinical and strategic programme lead for North East London Mental Health Support Teams

Digital support is critical to tackle the children’s mental health crisis

10 September 2025

Investing in digitally-powered prevention could change the outlook for children and young people’s mental health,

Laura Thompson, director at Access health and government

The tech for neighbourhood care is here – now it’s time to scale

3 September 2025

We must make neighbourhood care the default model of health and care delivery, writes Laura

Sascha Mullen, chief nursing information officer and clinical safety officer at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

How yesterday’s systems are causing today’s clinical safety issues

28 August 2025

Legacy systems pose increasing risks due inadequate clinical safety assurance, write Kimberley Dawson, Ben Jeeves

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

We need to act fast to close the NHS AI safety gap

20 August 2025

Current safety standards can’t keep up with AI, writes Yvette Khozam, ePMA lead pharmacist at

How to turn NHS data into ‘gold’

13 August 2025

The NHS holds vast stores of data it cannot use or sell. Synthesised data is

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What will Burnham as PM mean for NHS IT?

Yasmeen: ‘We’ve made sense of the 10 year plan’s vision’

Industry Spotlight: Stephen McMillan, strategic partnerships leader, Philips

Cresswell: ‘Some users are disappointed with ambient scribes’

Penny Kechagioglou: ‘We’ve become too attached to AI’

Digital support is critical to tackle the children’s mental health crisis

The tech for neighbourhood care is here – now it’s time to scale

How yesterday’s systems are causing today’s clinical safety issues

We need to act fast to close the NHS AI safety gap

How to turn NHS data into ‘gold’

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Time to rethink how we evaluate digital technologies in healthcare

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

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

Embedding PHM at the heart of the Model ICB

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

‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’

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

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

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

Balancing innovation and compliance in FemTech regulation

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