The Home Office has outlined eight strategic shifts to guide efforts to transform digital services and deliver improved outcomes over the next five years in its 2030 Digital Strategy. In particular, its focus is on using AI and automation, investing in systems and platforms, cyber security, use of data, and […]
Author: Jennifer Turton
AI-simulated PPIE panels using large language models being explored by NHS Golden Jubilee
A new approach has been created utilising AI-simulated and demographically representative patient and public involvement and engagement panels, designed to enhance public voices and overcome challenges around recruitment, geography, and inclusiveness. Developed by an NHS Golden Jubilee volunteer, Andrew Steele, the approach incorporates AI large language models and UK Census […]
WHO highlights importance of new roles, training, effective data management, and infrastructure to support personalised medicine
A report on personalised medicine published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies has pointed to the importance of new roles and training for new technologies, along with the effective use of data, and investment in infrastructure. Whilst personalised medicine has the potential to “revolutionise the way care […]
HTN primary care region series: North West
Primary Care Region Series: North West Welcome to our primary care region series, where we explore the latest on digital and data in primary care from each of the seven NHS regions in turn. In this instalment, we turn our attention to the North West region, where we cover digital […]
Humber Health Partnership shares plans to build virtual hospital as part of digital strategy to 2028
Humber Health Partnership has shared plans to build a virtual hospital, enabling system partners to refer into virtual pathways, as part of its new digital strategy for 2025 – 2028. The partnership also focuses on digital for productivity, building a robust and interoperable digital foundation, digital inclusion, and the effective […]
NHSE issues open invitation to first wave of national neighbourhood health implementation programme
NHS England has issued an open invitation calling for participation in the first wave of the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP). Explaining the shift in culture, resource allocation and ways of working as “mission critical”, NHSE sets out the programme as a means of building on successes to date, […]
Data Use and Access Bill focuses on health information, interoperability, data sharing
The Data Use and Access Bill has formally entered into law, in a move the government hopes will cut NHS bureaucracy and accelerate innovation in science and tech. Sonia Patel, chief technology officer at NHSE, posted on LinkedIn that the Royal Assent of the bill marked “an important day after […]
Samsung’s Xealth acquisition to harness wearables data for preventative care and patient empowerment
Samsung is set to acquire Xealth, a healthcare integration platform, in a move to “unify fragmented health information and to empower individuals to take control of their own health”. By combining Samsung’s wearables capabilities and Xealth’s platform, the acquisition will reportedly bring together home health monitoring and clinical decision-making to […]
Tasmanian Government names Epic as preferred EPR supplier part of $476 million digital healthcare transformation
The Tasmanian Government has named Epic Systems as its preferred EPR supplier, in a move said to signal the “next exciting stage” in executing its $476 million digital health transformation strategy (Bluegum Health Transformation). Dependent on contract negotiations, it is hoped that work will begin on the solution in May […]
NHS patient safety review finds “relatively small improvements” despite deployment of “considerable resources” and insufficient use of NHS data
A review commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care into six organisations overseeing the safety of care has been completed, with Dr Penny Dash publishing ten main findings and a total of nine recommendations. Headline findings include that despite a shift toward safety and “considerable resources […]
