Professor Peter Johnson, NHS national cancer director (Image provided by NHS England)
People at higher risk of developing cancer because of inherited genes will be regularly checked and tracked by the NHS under a…
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Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention services at NHS England (Credit: NHSE)
The NHS App is planned to become the central national channel for delivering preventative healthcare, said Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention…
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Dr Alec Price-Forbes, national chief clinical information officer for England (Credit: Jordan Sollof)
NHS England has today published a self-certified registry for national ambient voice technology (AVT) suppliers to show evidence of compliance.
AVT is…
Barry Frostick, chief digital and information officer at Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System
The divide between health and social care information leads to significant capacity delays, writes Barry Frostick, chief digital and…
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As the NHS becomes more tech-savvy, “the real risk is not moving too fast, but moving too slowly,” the health secretary has warned.
In a keynote speech delivered on 13 January 2026 at the Institute…
The government has acknowledged that its flagship digital reforms face significant delivery risks, citing a history of NHS IT programmes underestimating cost, complexity and timescales.
An impact statement on the NHS 10 year health plan,…
With additional funding for NHS technology announced in the Autumn Budget, the growing prominence of AI in healthcare, and the 10-year health plan gathering pace, anticipation is building across the digital health sector as…
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The government’s NHS 10 year health plan was a key theme in several of Digital Health’s most-read columns in 2025.
Writers’ interests ranged widely, however, from the importance of human connection in a digital NHS…
An end-of-year update released by NHS England says that the NHS App has more than 39 million registered users.
The app is a key part of the 10 year health plan and intended to become…
David Karandish, Founder & CEO of Capacity
Urban Health Plan scheduled 794,322 patient visits in 2022. Only 457,722 people showed up.
The missing 336,600 appointments cost the New York health system revenue, burned out their providers…
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