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25 July 2024

Diane Abbott: ā€˜Racism has no place in our digital health systemsā€™

A statement from Diane Abbott, read at the Equity Charter Summit, encouraged attendees to take action against racism in digital
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1 November 2023

New standards released to ensure medical AI is safe and effective

Healthcare professionals can harness artificial intelligence safely and effectively by following a new set of patient and industry-agreed standards.
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20 October 2021

New Ā£1.4m AI funding aims to reduce racial health inequalities

The funding, from the NHSX AI Lab and Health Foundation, aims to ensure healthcare solutions donā€™t ā€œexacerbate existing health inequalitiesā€.
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7 September 2021

Digital Health Unplugged: A chat with Simon Bolton

Host Andrea Downey spoke to the interim CEO of NHS Digital about his goals for the organisation, building back after
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24 August 2021

Digital Health Unplugged: Diversity in digital leadership

The panel discuss the importance of diversity in leadership roles and how the Shuri Network has helped them in their
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28 July 2021

NHS Digital pledges to increase staff diversity by 2025

NHS Digital employs around 3,500 people across England. It is aiming for 19% of its staff to be black, Asian
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15 July 2021

Shuri Network issues call to action at Virtual Summer School 2021

As it celebrates its second birthday, the Shuri Network has issued a call of action to its allies to help
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2 November 2020

BCS joins forces with Coding Black Females to improve diversity in tech

Fifty women from Coding Black Females will be offered a membership of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, each year
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21 September 2020

Diversity and inclusion must be ‘at the core’ of NHSX and digital leadership

Speaking at Connect 2020 Sonia Patel said diversity had to be at the core of the service offered to patients
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25 August 2020

Newham trial of contact-tracing app a ‘step in the right direction’

Shuri Network co-founder, Dr Shera Chok, said it was ā€œnot clearā€ why a trial of the app in an ethnically
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