A partnership between East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) and Excelerate Technology has enabled ambulance crews to consult stroke specialists via video in areas without reliable mobile coverage.
Poor signal in rural and…
NHS England has confirmed that nearly 400,000 people have used a prescription tracking feature in the NHS App in the first 10 weeks since its launch.
The ‘Amazon-style’ tracker, which was rolled out in the…
An interactive digital platform centred on supporting healthcare organisations to tackle health inequalities has been launched by the NHS Race and Health Observatory.
The free to access Health Action Resource Platform (HARP), which launched on…
The use of synthetic data to augment real-world data in healthcare can ensure AI models perform more accurately, and fairly across subgroups. By examining a parallel case study of NHS England’s care.data platform, this…
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A free image library, showing how diseases appear on different skin tones, has been launched to help prevent misdiagnosis for people with darker skin.
Many medical conditions appear differently based on skin tone, but typically…
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, chief executive of Patients Know Best (Credit: Lloyd Bettell-Higgins, PKB)
Customers are now able to view the results of at-home blood and DNA tests from MyHealthChecked on the NHS App, through an…
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Lawrence Tallon, chief executive at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (Credit: MHRA)
Manufacturers will be able to supply innovative medical devices to the NHS use before obtaining full regulatory approval, under new…
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Despite widespread interest in integrating mobile health apps into primary care to prevent and manage physical inactivity-related health conditions, the effectiveness of these apps remains unclear. We quantified the effects of Active 10 (a…
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A digital concept image of Leeds Innovation Village (Credit: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will launch an AI Lab this year, as part of its ambition to deliver the…
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Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs (Credit: Grainge Photography)
A third of GP appointments in England were carried out remotely in June 2025, according to an analysis of NHS data.
Of…
