Dr Anne Rigg, medical director for cancer and surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (Credit: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust)
NHS England has launched an AI and robot pilot…
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As the NHS becomes more tech-savvy, “the real risk is not moving too fast, but moving too slowly,” the health secretary has warned.
In a keynote speech delivered on 13 January 2026 at the Institute…
The government’s NHS 10 year health plan was a key theme in several of Digital Health’s most-read columns in 2025.
Writers’ interests ranged widely, however, from the importance of human connection in a digital NHS…
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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A national dashboard is being rolled out across NHS maternity services to help spot serious safety issues and prevent neonatal tragedies.
The Maternity Outcomes Signal System (MOSS) sends out a warning signal if it detects…
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is planning to allow researchers to access patient data from the Covid-19 pandemic, despite concerns raised by doctors’ representatives.
A formal direction, ‘GP Data for Consented Research’…
More than half of GP practices say that changes to online access had an adverse impact on patient care and staff, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey.
Changes to the GP contract, which…
Wes Streeting’s vision for the 10 year health plan has been Black Pear’s “direction of travel” all along, says David Jehring.
David Jehring is one of a rare breed of digital health pioneers who knows…
Thousands of NHS job cuts will go ahead in England after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the health service to overspend this year to cover the cost of redundancies.
The government…
NHS England has announced that millions more people are using online consultation requests to contact their GP practice each month.
Figures show 6.5 million online consultation requests were submitted to GPs in September 2025, up…
