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Westminster council extends contract with technology supplier

By Liz Wells 14 January 2025

Westminster Council has extended its partnership with digital key safe solutions supplier Keynetics for a further three years after a successful trial.

CYBER ATTACK

Government unveils proposals to protect hospitals from cybercrime

By Liz Wells 14 January 2025

The government will consult on proposals to protect hospitals, railways and public services from ransomware attacks.

BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE ICB

Gloucestershire healthcare providers using tech to get more patients home more safely

By Liz Wells 14 January 2025

Assistive technology being used by Gloucestershire healthcare providers is helping more patients get home more safely.

HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE HEALTH AND CARE NHS TRUST

Herefordshire and Worcestershire trust tackles anxiety in young people

By Liz Wells 13 January 2025

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is giving all children aged 7-12 and their families on-demand access to a therapeutic mobile game, which can ease childhood anxiety.

TECHNOLOGY

Starmer sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI

By Liz Wells 13 January 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is throwing the full weight of Whitehall behind the AI industry by agreeing to take forward all 50 recommendations set out by Matt Clifford in his AI Opportunities Actio...

THE ROYAL MARSDEN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Robot-guided biopsies tested on UK patients

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

Researchers at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust treating sarcoma have looked at how, using robotic guidance, multiple biopsies can be taken across different parts of a tumour and analysed whi...

TECHNOLOGY

Ultrasound imaging technique 'reliably spots' prostate cancer

By Liz Wells 08 January 2025

A new imaging approach developed by researchers at Heriot-Watt University has shown ‘extremely encouraging’ results in early-stage clinical trials on prostate cancer at the Western General Hospital...

THE SHREWSBURY AND TELFORD NHS TRUST

Shrewsbury trust passes robotic assisted surgery milestone

By Liz Wells 07 January 2025

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals, has completed more than 200 robotic assisted surgeries.

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NHS Lothian gives patients access to AI physiotherapy

By Liz Wells 07 January 2025

NHS Lothian in Scotland has become the first NHS organisation in the UK to make a new AI-powered physiotherapy clinic available to patients following successful trials last year.

WEST YORKSHIRE ICB