More than 9,000 robotic surgeries have been completed at Southmead Hospital, part of North Bristol NHS Trust, as the use of the technology across the NHS increases.
The trust has been using robotic surgeries since…
The public do not want all health and care professionals to have full access to a single patient record (SPR) and would prefer a tiered system of access, according to government research.
NHS England and…
Staff involved in Rio EPR go-live at older adult mental health services in Kidderminster (Credit: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust)
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust has rolled out…
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(L-R) Vin Diwakar, Sam Burrows, Rachel Power, Malte Gerhold (Credit: Tammy Lovell)
NHS England is working with NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) to create a national population health management tool which will run…
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Professor Long Jiao, pancreatic and liver surgeon at Cromwell Hospital, alongside his team and the da Vinci SP robot (Credit: Cromwell Hospital)
Half a million operations will be supported by robotic surgery every year…
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NHS England confirmed that it has cancelled a £69 million investment programme for electronic bed capacity management systems (eBCMS) to put additional funds into electronic patient records (EPRs) instead.
In 2023, NHSE’s transformation unit earmarked…
NHS England has raised concerns that the inappropriate use of AI translation apps in healthcare could cause risks to patient safety.
The ‘Improvement framework: community language translation and interpreting services’, published by NHSE on 27…
NHS England is investigating a cyber incident at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
A spokesperson for UCLH told Digital Health News that a software product…
An “Amazon-style” prescription tracking feature has been rolled out in the NHS App, with the aim of helping to reduce unnecessary calls and visits to pharmacies.
NHS England announced on 23 May 2025 that nearly…
Suppliers have quizzed NHS England about the relationship between the proposed single patient record (SPR) and the federated data platform (FDP).
Plans for an SPR which would connect NHS and social care data were announced…
