Humber and North Yorkshire Collaboration of Acute Providers annual report for 2025/26 has shared achievements across imaging, diagnostics and order comms, with discussion on next steps and the future of acute care in the region. Focuses for 2025/26 included reducing unwarranted variation and improving timely imaging and reporting through the […]
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Princess Alexandra Hospital contracts patient engagement portal
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has contracted the Zesty patient engagement portal, with a contract value of £155,000. In a call-off from a framework agreement, the trust has awarded the contract to London-based Zesty Limited for the patient engagement portal via the NHS SBS framework, with the contract set to […]
Greater Manchester ICB five-year strategic commissioning plan focuses on digital, community and prevention
Greater Manchester ICB has launched its five-year strategic commissioning plan to 2031, with the three shifts to digital, community, and prevention embedded into a number of priority areas. A new digital strategy is to be published in January 2027 to build the digital capability to enable its objectives, it explains, […]
VitalHub acquires Buddy Healthcare for €8.3 million
VitalHub, a software company offering EHR and workforce automation solutions, has announced its acquisition of Buddy Healthcare, a Finnish-based care coordination platform, for €8.3 million. The Buddy Healthcare platform is said to digitise specialised care pathways, reportedly working to replace paper notes and unnecessary visits with automated guidance to free-up […]
HTN ICB Region Series: North West
ICB Region Series: North West For this edition of our ICB region series for 2026, we take a deep dive into what’s happening with digital and data across the North West region. We’ll explore pilots and innovations, strategies, case studies, and insights from the sector. Digital strategy, digital plans and […]
University Hospitals Plymouth procures digital histopathology pathway service
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has procured an end-to-end digital histopathology pathway service with integrated AI diagnostic support and NHS reporting services. The contract, worth £275k, has been awarded to Inify Laboratories Ltd following completion of the Most Suitable Provider Process, for its fully integrated diagnostic service enabling information sharing […]
Bradford Teaching Hospitals reduces letter turnaround by 44% and delivers 210,000+ letters within 12 months with T-Pro
By T-Pro Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust modernised clinical correspondence by replacing its legacy dictation system with T‑Pro’s integrated speech recognition and document workflow. In under 12 months, the Trust delivered 210k+ letters, improved transcription turnaround times by 44%, and achieved 82% positive staff satisfaction. “We needed to get […]
Wearables news in brief: WHOOP raises $575 million, Feminai breast screening pilot, Eight Sleep generates sleep predictions
For our latest news in brief we focus on wearable technology, exploring funding news and emerging use cases across the health sector. Clair Health raises $11.6 million in seed funding for continuous hormone monitoring Clair Health has raised $11.6 million in seed funding to build wearable tech offering non-invasive continuous […]
WHO call for comment on common reference architecture guidance for national digital health infrastructure
The World Health Organization and the International Telecommunication Union are inviting comments on draft reference architecture guidance for digital public infrastructure for health, intended to help countries plan and implement national digital health infrastructure. The call for comment seeks input from those involved in the planning, governing, building, or financing […]
Primary care action plan sets out roadmap for key digital programmes across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB
Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has published its primary care action plan, setting out a roadmap for key digital programmes and priorities across the region. Rolling out digital triage and online consultations will continue and ambient voice technology will be piloted in selected practices as part of a system-wide trial, the […]
