UK digital pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, has announced that it is acquiring Care Quality Pharmacy, a provider focusing on care homes, in what will be its “first step into the care home pharmacy sector”. Care Quality Pharmacy offers prescriptions and services to a range of care homes, care services, and care agencies. […]
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Mid Yorkshire Teaching digital, data and technology strategy: EPR delivery, AI and intelligent automation, the NHS App as a digital front door
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) has published its latest digital, data and technology strategy to 2030, showing a “clear shift from traditional IT and information to a more aligned approach of digital health and data science”. Main focus areas include the consolidation of systems into a single EPR platform, […]
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals on EPR optimisation, shared digital workspaces, AI
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has highlighted digital progress and outlined future priorities, focusing on EPR optimisation, establishing a shared digital workspace, embracing AI, and enabling a digital front door. Progress continues to be made on its EPR optimisation programme, the trust shares, with some of the latest developments […]
Royal Cornwall Hospitals sponsors study exploring relevance of 1939 Cancer Act in the digital age
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is sponsoring a study exploring the relevance and effectiveness of the 1939 Cancer Act in an increasingly digital world, it has shared. Since the Act’s publication, the way health information is shared and accessed has changed “dramatically”, the trust states, with information widely available […]
News in brief: 248 active robotic process automation bots at Kent Community Health, Royal Bolton trials AI to detect Down’s syndrome
Welcome to another edition of HTN’s news in brief, where we share some of the health tech stories that have caught our attention over the last few weeks. Robotic process automation at Kent Community Health Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has offered an update on progress around robotic process […]
Ministry of Defence awards TPP £8 million EHR and medicine management system contract
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract worth £8 million to The Phoenix Partnership (Leeds) Ltd for an EHR and medicines management system, following a competition through the Clinical Digital Solutions for the Integrated Health Economy Framework part of the NHS London Procurement Partnership. The contract, which is […]
Roadmap for modern digital government sets out key aims, platforms, and transformation initiatives
The UK government has published its roadmap for modern digital government, an action plan bringing together integral products, platforms, and transformation initiatives to demonstrate how digitalisation across the government is improving public services, increasing accessibility, and promoting value for money. The roadmap aims to deliver on five themes: easier lives, […]
University Hospitals Birmingham launches pre-market engagement for digital consent system
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT has launched a pre-market engagement notice looking to identify suppliers and current market capabilities for an eConsent system. Feedback from suppliers on the engagement will help inform the future development of a specification and procurement strategy, University Hospitals Birmingham shares. The trust hopes to replace […]
Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS reviews November EPR go-live
The board of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust in its latest meeting discussed some of the initial outcomes, challenges, benefits, and opportunities from its newly launched EPR. The EPR went live in November 2025 alongside EPMA, at a cost of £50 million. The trust’s radiology information system, […]
£1.2 million for automatic AI system developed with Alder Hey clinicians
An automatic AI system developed by Alder Hey clinicians and researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool has received a £1.2 million grant from the NIHR Invention for Innovation programme. The system automates x-ray interpretation, data capture, and monitoring, with an AI algorithm trained on thousands of x-ray images […]
