The year 2025 saw the publication of a new NHS 10 year health plan for England, an announcement that NHS England will be merged into the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and…
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Prabha Vijayakumar, national chief AHP information officer, NHS England, Emma Jackson, chief AHP and nursing information officer, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust, and Amy Freeman, chief digital information officer, University Hospitals of…
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Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has deployed Patient Initiated Follow-up (PIFU) through the NHS App, in partnership with Netcall.
This development, which went live on 10 December 2025, aligns with the NHS App’s core purpose set…
The Accuracy-Adequacy Paradox
A regional health plan improved its provider directory accuracy by 8%, only to discover hundreds of specialists listed as “in-network” had moved or stopped practicing. Rather than losing coverage, the plan leveraged…
Afshin Attari, senior director of public sector at Exponential-e (Credit: Exponential-e )
The NHS needs to shift gear if it is to benefit from the huge potential of digital technology, according to a leading…
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Professor Hatim Abdulhussein, chief executive at Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex
An initiative called TrustX has been launched to help verify, deploy, and test agentic AI for use across the NHS and social care.
It…
Professor Christina Pagel, director of University College London’s clinical operational research unit (Credit: UCL)
The NHS must avoid AI’s seductive overdiagnosis trap, writes Professor Christina Pagel, director of University College London’s clinical operational research…
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A charity has called for systematic changes to stop patients from discovering their disease diagnoses through the NHS App without proper support.
The government’s 10 year health plan, published in July 2025, sets an ambition…
Workforce pressures are the biggest blocker to achieving the digital transformation in the NHS 10 year health plan, according to research by Digital Health.
In a survey, completed by 97 NHS staff working across digital,…
Kevin Deutsch, General Manager and SVP of Health Plan Solutions at Softheon
The upcoming Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment (OE) period presents at least three major challenges for health plans: Legislative changes, double-digit premium…
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