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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 10h

A go-live date has been announced for the £88 million Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group electronic patient record (EPR) system, which was delayed earlier this year. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/go-l...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 12h

Opinion 🗣️ Integrated care must extend beyond hospital walls so that health information follows people across services, writes Laura Thompson, director of health and integrated care at The Access Group. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/the-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 13h

Digital Health Networks has launched a new council to give pharmacy professionals a stronger voice in shaping digital transformation across the NHS. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 13h

🎙️ Unplugged 🎙️ The latest episode explores the role of tech in delivering the NHS productivity gains needed. Tera Allas, co-chair of the NHS Productivity Commission, discusses the commission’s final report. Find out more and listen below 👇 www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/why-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Digital Health has published an overview of the stages and sessions for its highly anticipated Rewired 2027 conference programme. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features a challenge to improve transport for dialysis patients and an AI consultation-recording app for cancer patients. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The government has confirmed it will accept all 44 recommendations made by the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/gove...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NHS Wales bodies lack a clear picture of their workforces’ digital capabilities, with only around 2% of staff completing a national digital skills self-assessment, an audit has warned. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/only...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A former chair of the Digital Health Networks Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) Advisory Panel has received an NHS award for her contribution to digital nursing and nurse education. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/form...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Research from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has found that using an autonomous AI medical device for skin cancer detection can free up thousands of NHS dermatology appointments. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/ai-s...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our latest roundup of contracts and go lives features a £215 million contract for Netcompany and a three-year contract to provide a trusted research environment for the National Institute for Health and Care Research. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Six primary care networks across North West London have launched a programme using AI technology to support people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to manage their condition at home between appointments. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

British AI startup InTouchNow has secured £2.3 million in seed funding to develop its AI voice agent technology for general practice, which can sense when patients become frustrated. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/brit...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Protesters have gathered outside the Labour Party Conference calling for the government not to extend Palantir’s £330 million federated data platform (FDP) contract. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/pres...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nursing leaders have warned that the NHS risks missing the full benefits of ambient voice technology (AVT) by treating it as a documentation tool rather than using it to redesign nursing care around patients. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/nurs...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Opinion 🗣️ Treating training for clinical safety officers as the finish line often leaves clinicians isolated and compromises patient safety, writes Dean Mawson, clinical director and clinical safety officer at DPM Digital Health Consultancy. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/over...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NHS digital leaders have called for greater clarity over the direction of national technology programmes including the federated data platform (FDP) and the NHS App. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/nhs-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UK healthcare AI company DYAD has raised $10 million (around £7.55m) to accelerate its expansion across the NHS and into new markets. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/ai-f...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has announced plans to deploy an electronic patient record (EPR) for occupational health to deliver a “high-quality, joined-up” service. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/uni-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s briefing features tech designed to help schools manage pupil healthcare information and an employee benefits platform expansion. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Real-time ultrasound image sharing is being rolled out to emergency and intensive care units in Portsmouth to help inform time-critical decisions. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/port...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The MyCare.scot app has only been downloaded by 22,000 people since its launch, despite the English NHS App being used by nearly 90% of adults in Scotland. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/scot...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A think tank has warned that NHS restructuring is reducing the health service’s capacity to adopt digital innovation, creating uncertainty for suppliers and threatening the adoption of AI and other technologies. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/king...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NHS staff suspected of improperly accessing patients’ medical records will face immediate suspension and have their access to NHS computer systems cut off, under an NHS England crackdown. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/nhs-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This Movers & Shakers roundup features a new chief digital information officer for the Online NHS Trust and a former deputy Labour leader joining Palantir. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/move...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More than a dozen NHS staff members are being investigated by Bristol NHS Foundation Trust after accessing the medical records of a teenager in the years after his death. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/nhs-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NHS England is piloting a rapid genomic test which could help patients with suspected brain tumours get diagnosed sooner. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/nhs-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An autonomous AI agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to non-public files on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal after initially being denied access. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/open...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features research into more stable vaccines and a blood testing device that uses AI to assess an individual’s health. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has urged caution over the use of autonomous AI for the assessment and treatment of NHS patients. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/phys...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pete Sinden has been appointed as chief digital information officer at the Online NHS Trust, the digital-first trust established to deliver England’s ‘online hospital’. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/onli...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed that historical maternity records were accidentally overwritten during routine IT work. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/it-e...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Opinion 🗣️ Poor communication around AI in breast cancer screening risks deepening mistrust and health inequalities, writes Dr Petra Cattanach of the Centre for Business Ethics and Sustainability at Henley Business School, University of Reading. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/dist...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A medical practice is stopping the trial of an AI receptionist after it failed to work as intended, leaving patients “incredibly frustrated”. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/gp-p...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will implement a shared electronic patient record (EPR). www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/roya...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Australian AI firm Heidi today announced the close of a $100 million (£75m) Series C funding round to deepen its investment in the NHS. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/heid...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features NICE draft guidance on technologies for diagnosing endometriosis and an increase in the NHS ‘tiger teams’ contract. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/digi...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Six sites will develop and test new neighbourhood health models that bring together NHS services, councils, community organisations and local people to improve outcomes and tackle inequalities. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/six-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The NHS could save £33bn a year by 2040 and prevent up to 20,600 deaths annually by improving productivity through better use of technology, staff and capital, a Health Foundation commission has found. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/bett...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AI firm Tandem Health has announced a $100 million (£75m) raise in Series B funding to grow its solution into an AI-native clinic operating system. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/ai-f...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Dorset Care Record has joined the Interweave Partnership, an NHS-managed data sharing network that powers shared care records across multiple integrated care systems (ICSs). www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/dors...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A government review of NHS England’s frontline productivity programme found that successful delivery is unlikely under current operational conditions. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/fron...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) and 38 health and social care regulators and registers have committed to developing shared principles for the use of AI across the UK. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/psa-...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Opinion 🗣️ AI must be judged by the difference it makes for patients and staff in real-world care, not by its promises alone, writes Nell Thornton, senior policy fellow at the Health Foundation. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/no-m...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Opinion 🗣️ NHS organisations and suppliers must work more closely to turn promising health tech pilots into scalable solutions, writes Dame Barbara Hakin, chair of the Health Tech Alliance. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/indu...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust will introduce a flag into its Oracle Health electronic patient record (EPR) to help staff identify patients at greater risk of health inequalities. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/ineq...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Digital Health is asking readers to share what they value most about our coverage and where we can do better. The survey will be open until 5pm on Friday 16 October 2026. Have your say 👇 www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/help...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) has awarded a contract for its new electronic patient record (EPR) system. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/east...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Government of Jersey is seeking a supplier to deliver the openEHR-based platform that will form the foundation of its single patient record. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/jers...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features a study evaluating if data from a sleep app can predict respiratory illness and the latest Health Bill stage. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/09/digi...

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