Midwifery leaders have outlined the numerous technical challenges facing maternity care as the NHS implements its 10 year health plan.
Safety issues caused by interoperability issues between systems, digital skills gap, and the implementation of…
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UK nursing and midwifery charity Cavell has been announced as the official charity partner for Digital Health Rewired 2026.
Digital Health Rewired 2026, taking place on 24-25 March at the NEC Birmingham, is the UK’s…
Leah Parry, chief X information officer: nursing, midwifery and AHPs at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (left) (Credit: Leah Parry) and Emma Jackson, chief AHP and nursing information officer at Norfolk…
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NHS England has announced that newly pregnant women can now self-refer online to get their first midwife appointments.
Mums-to-be can at more than three quarters of trusts in England can refer themselves directly to local…
ACU partners with startup to build digital nursing education platformThe Australian Catholic University (ACU) in Sydney has partnered with education technology startup Skybox Health to develop software for digital nursing education.
“This partnership is crucial…
Pakistan is exploring the application of artificial general intelligence, AI that possesses human-like intelligence to perform intellectual tasks, in diagnostics and nursing training.The Pakistan Nursing and Midwifery Council (PNMC), which licenses nurses, midwives, lady…
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A virtual reality training program has been developed to help paramedics and ambulance officers prepare for unplanned out-of-hospital births. The training program called NEONATE features a 30 to 40-minute VR simulation of neonatal care scenarios…
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Hayley Grafton and Helen Balsdon, two chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) at the forefront of UK digital nursing, are the first speakers to be announced for Digital Health Summer Schools 2025.
Grafton, CNIO at University…
England’s most senior nurse, Duncan Burton, is the latest high-profile NHS keynote to join the Digital Health Rewired 2025 speaker line-up.
The chief nursing officer for NHS England will speak at Rewired at the NEC…
A leaked NHS England report, has warned of a “severe shortage” of digital nurse specialists, which could hinder ambition to drive the healthcare system forward with technology.Nursing Times reported that it has seen the…
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