Digital health
How can NHS trusts identify skills gaps, address them, support digital transformation, and create sustainable workforces? A webinar hosted by St Vincent’s Consulting will lead a practical discussion of the issues, with a focus on the role of academies and apprenticeship programmes. ‘Analogue to digital’ is one of the three big shifts outlined in the [...]
By Emma Raftery, partnerships lead at The Equity Charter and marketing director at Aire Logic At one of our recent digital inclusion pop-up hubs in Leeds, we helped a man who had been living with high blood pressure for years. He could not get a GP appointment and when we got talking, it turned out [...]
Healthcare teams using digital technology to improve patient care have been recognised at the inaugural Enlivio Health Awards. The awards were held as part of the Enlivio Health Ignite Summit, the first official event following the company’s transition from EMIS. Winners were announced on Thursday 1 October. Chatfield Health Care, a GP practice in Battersea, [...]
A new initiative is bringing NHS blood donation teams into workplaces in an effort to encourage more people from Black heritage communities to donate blood for people living with sickle cell. The programme, which is being run through employee networks at organisations including Google, TikTok and the BBC, is taking place during Black History Month [...]
Altro Health has raised US$7m to develop its platform for wellness businesses offering clinician-prescribed medicines, peptides and laboratory testing. The company provides software that allows personal trainers, gyms and medical spas to offer services including peptides, GLP-1 medicines, hormone therapy and blood testing under their own brands. Altro handles the clinical side of the service, [...]
By Daniel Johnston MRes, RN, director clinical ops int., ACNIO, NHS CSO and Andy Wilcox, senior product marketing manager, international, Imprivata According to the PwC report Annual Threat Dynamics 2026: Cyber threats in motion, identity breaches are now the primary vector for cyberattacks. This is a global phenomenon across all industries. However, there are a [...]
Executives, digital, operational, and frontline staff from the newly integrated North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, will welcome both big tech and innovative health tech firms on 27 November. The trust, which integrated in April, is the latest in the NHS to host Elevate – a programme of health tech showcases that bring curated [...]
NHS restructuring is undermining the health service's capacity to adopt digital innovation, a think tank has warned, leaving suppliers unsure who to deal with.
Smartphone ownership at age 12 was linked to higher rates of eating disorder symptoms by age 14 in a study of nearly 9,000 US adolescents. Among children who owned a phone at 12, 24 per cent reported at least one eating disorder symptom two years later. By comparison, less than 16 per cent of those [...]
NHS staff suspected of unlawfully accessing patient records will be suspended immediately and have access to NHS systems cut off. The move follows a series of cases involving staff viewing highly sensitive patient information they had no legitimate reason to see. NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has written to every trust [...]
