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…
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…
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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Meta has been found liable by a Californian federal court for using sensitive personal data from period-tracking app Flo Health to run targeted ads.
Five women brought the class action law suit against Flo Health,…
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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An AI-powered physiotherapy clinic has more than halved waiting lists for back pain in its first large-scale deployment in England.
The service from Flok Health, which provides same-day appointments for back pain via an app, was…
Intuitive has announced that its da Vinci 5 Surgical System has received CE Mark approval for adult and paediatric use in Europe for minimally invasive endoscopic procedures across abdominopelvic surgical procedures.
This includes urologic, gynaecologic…
Siloes in the NHS and a lack of standardised data are barriers to the government’s digital health plans, according to a panel of experts.
A webinar, held by Digital Health Networks on 25 July…
