NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched a £150 million framework agreement for digital dictation, speech recognition and outsourced transcription services.
Government guidance, published in April 2025, encourages NHS clinicians to use ambient voice technology…
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has awarded a contract worth up to £8 million to support its IT infrastructure as NHS England merges into the department.
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer announced…
Richard Stubbs, chief executive of Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber and Dame Barbara Hakin, chair of the Health Tech Alliance (Credit: HTA)
Decisive reforms have created an economic opening for health technologies, write Richard…
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Liz Kendall, science secretary (Credit: Alecsandra Dragoi / Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The government has announced a new blueprint for AI regulation which could help cut NHS waiting times for patients and…
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A trial of Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity tool across 90 NHS organisations found that the technology could save more than 43 minutes a day per staff member.
The pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot, involving more than…
Exclusive: An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which affected more than 1,000 companies and millions of internet users, is believed to have disrupted patient care across several NHS sites.
A digital chief at an acute…
Zubir Ahmed, parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department of Health and Social Care, speaking at The Health Foundation’s AI in the NHS event (Credit: Jordan Sollof)
The Medicines and and Healthcare products Regulatory…
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Patients admitted to selected acute and mental health NHS trusts in the North East and Yorkshire are being offered a digital app to help them quit smoking as part of a new pilot.
Smoking remains…
Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) firm Intuitive has opened its new UK and Ireland headquarters, which includes the UK’s largest da Vinci RAS training centre.
The facility, which opened in Winnersh Triangle, Berkshire in October 2025, has…
