A digital maturity blueprint from County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) has laid out a three-year roadmap with the intention of increasing the organisation’s DMA score from its current 2.5 to 4.5 by 2027/28. The trust shares plans to tackle gaps in areas including cloud infrastructure, automated monitoring, […]
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Welsh Ambulance Services board updates on digital KPIs, IG, and risks around unchecked AI use
The Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust (WAST) board has shared its digital KPIs, work on information governance, and discussed the risks surrounding unauthorised or inappropriate use of AI. Granted a high risk status, the unauthorised or inappropriate use of AI tech such as ChatGPT “outside of approved organisational channels […]
GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad for $2.3 billion
GE HealthCare has announced its acquisition of medical imaging software provider Intelerad at a cost of $2.3 billion, as part of wider aims to create a fully-connected, cloud-first imaging ecosystem and to triple its cloud-enabled product offering by 2028. According to GE HealthCare, the move brings AI and workflow orchestration, […]
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals highlight EPR implementation and digital plans
The board of York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals (Y&S) NHS Foundation Trust has shared an update on progress around EPR implementation, next steps, and future focuses for digital. Overall progress is reported as “in line with plan”, with go-live of the first tranche due to begin on 27 February 2026, […]
Mid Yorkshire Teaching reports on virtual wards hospital admissions avoided and bed days saved
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust has shared statistics on its Hospital at Home – Virtual Ward programme, highlighting a saving of 1,422 hospital admissions since the service began, with 318 of these in 2025/26. Overall, the virtual ward has saved 987 bed days in Q1 – Q2 of 2025/26. In […]
Humber Health Partnership vision for virtual hospital and upcoming EPR procurement
The Humber Health Partnership (HHP) has outlined a vision for its virtual hospital model as part of its Clinical Services Strategy for 2025 – 2030, aiming to reduce the overall size of its physical estate and take advantage of new technologies to deliver care closer to communities. “One of the […]
University Hospitals of Liverpool Group updates on digital medicines progress
University Hospitals of Liverpool Group has shared “significant progress” around digital medicines infrastructure at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, highlighting a large-scale EPMA upgrade, the rollout of EPMA in emergency departments, the deployment of automated drug cabinets, and the implementation of the Philips ICCA EPR in critical care. The digital medicines team’s […]
The Christie shares plans for EPR procurement, ambient AI, patient portal, and intelligent hospital
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust has shared plans and progress delivered to date on its “Future Christie” programme, outlining actions including the deployment of ambient voice technology, the procurement of an EPR, and the implementation of a Joint Analytics for Cancer initiative as “the foundation of the intelligent hospital vision”. […]
EPR goes live at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with Oracle Cerner EPR across its hospitals and other sites including Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub, as “the last acute trust in London to go digital”. Plans to introduce the £44 million EPR were […]
AI Policy from Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals covers procurement, responsibilities, and development of AI
An AI Policy from Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) NHS Foundation Trust has set out a guiding framework to ensure “the appropriate deployment, management, and oversight of AI systems across the DBTH partners”. Its scope covers all departments and services, and AI systems either internally developed or procured from […]
