Left-shift views - AI, intimacy and healthcare

Left-shift views - AI, intimacy and healthcare

06 November 2025

Our correspondent Melissa Harvard looks outside the box to provide a radical solution for healthcare

Learning to drive AI

06 November 2025

We need a new generation of drivers to safely transform healthcare, writes Dr Umang Patel, NHS paediatrician at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and chief clinical information officer, Microsoft...

NHS AI trial to diagnose prostate cancer faster

By Liz Wells 28 October 2025

The NHS will test an AI-powered 'one-day diagnostics' service for prostate cancer that could save some men up to a month of waiting.

Harnessing AI for healthcare

By Lee Peart 27 October 2025

We report back from The Health Foundation’s conference in London this month exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by AI adoption in healthcare

Restless for change

By Liz Wells 27 October 2025

Speakers, exhibitors and visitors at this year’s HETT show in London expressed a desire for policy, commitment, and innovation to bring about transformative change.

A place-led future for innovation

By Lee Peart 27 October 2025

Richard Stubbs looks back on his tenure as chair of the Health Innovation Network and maps out the future for innovation in the NHS

Left-shift views - Algorithmic thinking and decision making

27 October 2025

Our correspondent Melissa Harvard looks outside the box to provide a radical solution for healthcare

NHS SBS unveils £150m framework agreement for access to ambient voice and AI scribing tools

By Liz Wells 22 October 2025

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched its £150m next-generation framework agreement for digital dictation, speech recognition and outsourced transcription services.

MHRA study to look at whether AI could predict drug interactions

By Liz Wells 22 October 2025

A new study will use AI and NHS data to predict side effects from drug combinations before they reach patients.

AI

NHS AI trial delivers 'unprecedented' time and cost savings

By Liz Wells 21 October 2025

AI-powered administrative support could save NHS staff around 43 minutes per staff member per day or more, a groundbreaking pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot across 90 NHS organisations reveals.

Midlands trust uses AI to help reduce surgical waiting lists

By Liz Wells 17 October 2025

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has introduced an AI tool to reduce surgical waiting lists.

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Social Care Team Manager

Band I, SCP 44 - 47 (£55,609 - £59,027) per annum

Sandwell, West MidlandsBand I, SCP 44 - 47 (£55,609 - £59,027) per annum

RECRUITER: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Corporate Director Health and Adult Services

£141,233 to £164,272 plus relocation support

Northallerton, North Yorkshire / Countywide£141,233 to £164,272 plus relocation support

RECRUITER: North Yorkshire Council

Assistant Director of Family Services & Strategic Partnerships

£97,632 - £108,033

North Northamptonshire£97,632 - £108,033

RECRUITER: North Northamptonshire Council