AI could help detect and investigate foodborne illness outbreaks

By Liz Wells 14 March 2025

UKHSA is exploring the role that AI could play in helping to detect and investigate foodborne illness outbreaks.

High street opticians could use AI to help diagnose dementia with an eye scan

By Liz Wells 13 March 2025

Opticians could play a key role in identifying people at risk of dementia by spotting distinctive patterns in the back of the eye linked to early signs of the condition, new research reveals.

Guy's and St Thomas' forms strategic collaboration with US hospital

By Lee Peart 13 March 2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has formed a strategic partnership with US non-profit hospital Cedars-Sinai.

Welsh health board launches digital weight management service

By Liz Wells 12 March 2025

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is partnering with Gro Health to provide eligible residents across Gwent with a free digital weight management service.

Derbyshire hospitals go live with Nervecentre

By Liz Wells 11 March 2025

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS trusts have joined Nervecentre’s EPR platform, which enables collaboration and seamless information sharing between care...

Forward looking

By Liz Wells 11 March 2025

Digital health transformation was on everyone’s minds at the HETT North event, which took place at the Manchester Central Convention Complex in the last week of February.

Digital designs

By Liz Wells 11 March 2025

The UK is seeing many benefits from digitally-enabled health services, but there are fundamental barriers to digital inclusion, research by The King’s Fund reveals

Reality of AI adoption in London healthcare revealed

By Liz Wells 10 March 2025

AI has the potential to improve patient care and operational efficiency, but its adoption remains fragmented, a new report reveals.

Lincolnshire ICB introduces women's health app

By Liz Wells 10 March 2025

Lincolnshire ICB has made a new women’s health app available in the region.

NHS

NHS needs to 'stop spending money on overseas companies that are not committed'

By Liz Wells 10 March 2025

The NHS is overspending on expensive foreign IT systems and should buy British instead, former health secretary Steve Barclay says.