Sir Julian Hartley, former chief executive of the Care Quality Commission (Credit: CQC)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned that the NHS’s shift to digital risks excluding vulnerable patients and widening existing health…
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Flok Health has developed and deployed the UK’s first AI-operated NHS physiotherapy clinic, delivering personalised treatment at a population scale, with no waiting list. Flok Health are a CQC-approved healthcare provider, and their software…
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An AI early warning system is being developed on the NHS federated data platform to identify unsafe care “before it becomes a tragedy”.
A press release, published on 30 June 2025 by the Department of…
Leaders of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have admitted that it has around 500 reports which are “stuck” in its IT platform and cannot be retrieved.
Speaking at the Health Select Committee on the work…
NHS Lothian in Scotland has made an AI-powered physiotherapy clinic available to nearly one million patients across the Lothian region as part of a large-scale pilot.
The AI clinic, called Flok Health, was created using…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has committed to fixing its regulatory platform and provider portal, following the publication of two reviews which identified their “serious adverse impact” on staff and providers.
An interim report, by…
The “honesty and speed” of Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS is impressive – and the IT community must respond to his call for a “tilt to technology”. But NHS…
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A white paper, published by homecare technology company Birdie, has called for more integration between the NHS and social care.
‘Ready to care: The first steps to fixing social care’, published on 17 September 2024,…
The Care Quality Commission says IT connectivity issues at Solent NHS Trust have compromised patient care.
‘Significant problems’ with IT systems, most notably the provider portal, contributed to failings at Care Quality Commission (CQC),…
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Capita has partnered with home care staff marketplace Curam with the aim of improving access to affordable social care for local authorities and integrated care systems.
The partnership, which launched on 15 July 2024, is…
