An accelerator programme run by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with UP Ventures and Par Equity has supported 12 tech start-ups address children’s health challenges such as asthma, diabetes, and ADHD. With the help of a £115,000 investment from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, Sheffield City Council […]
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Alder Hey AI Strategy shares current and future AI work, strategic initiatives, approach, infrastructure
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has published an AI Strategy, outlining current and future AI work along with plans for benefits realisation, implementation, AI workforce development, infrastructure and data architecture. Kate Warriner, chief transformation and digital officer at the trust, notes the strategy marks “a bold and exciting commitment […]
Innovation and tech to improve patient outcomes in 2025-2030 strategy for East of England Ambulance Service
Innovation and investments in digital, tech, and data are planned to improve patient outcomes as part of East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust’s (EEAST) strategy for 2025-2030. Broken down into four parts, the trust’s strategy focuses on delivering better care for patients, supporting its workforce to deliver “the best […]
University Hospitals Plymouth board on digital, quality, successes and priorities
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust board has shared its Quality Account for 2024/25, highlighting uses of digital and data to support quality across the trust’s services. It also sets out priorities for the coming year across improving experiences of care and staff experience, and reducing harms. On successes, the trust […]
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre shares “Be Digital” strategy for 2025 and beyond
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has published its new strategy for 2025 and beyond, outlining plans to “Be Digital”, along with work on collaborations, digitally transforming services, empowering patients and staff, and using data to drive cancer research and innovation. Clatterbridge will be working with partners in the NHS University Hospitals […]
Data published under elective care reform plan highlights waiting list size and inequalities
NHS England has published new data, as part of plans to reform elective care and tackle health inequalities, noting at 29 June 2025, 7,321,879 patients were on the waiting list, with trauma and orthopaedics, ear nose and throat, gynaecology, and ophthalmology, having the highest wait lists. The Waiting List Minimum […]
West London NHS Trust on transformation, cyber remediation, digital productivity, and ambient voice
West London NHS Trust has shared progress on transformation and digital, with highlights including cyber remediation, digital productivity, and ambient voice pilots. The trust shares progress including a current review of IT estates, systems, and processes, to inform a coproduced digital strategy focusing on robust infrastructure, cyber security, effective EPR […]
Innovation, digital skills, and digital infrastructure highlighted in Barts Health Group clinical strategy
Barts Health NHS Trust has set out plans around innovation, digital skills, and digital infrastructure in its Group Clinical Strategy covering 2025 – 2030+, preparing for reforms set out in the 10 Year Plan for preventing ill health, delivering care closer to home, and digital transformation. Across the group, 5-year […]
Somerset NHS FT launches patient communications for transparency around use of AI and ambient voice tech
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has shared a series of communications to explain to patients how the trust is using technologies such as AI, ambient voice, virtual nursing, and generative AI. Andy Mayne, chief scientist for data, operational research and AI, shared on LinkedIn that the purpose is to educate patients […]
Northumbria Healthcare launches app to support cancer patients
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has launched an app to support cancer patients and their families, providing access to relevant information, guidance, and advice. The HealthZone UK app, free to download from the Google Play and Apple App Store, has been co-designed by patients, according to Mel Freedman, Macmillan personalised […]
