Alongside the inevitable Christmas bloat, the NHS App is in danger of becoming bloated with modules of additional functionality, writes Professor Joe McDonald. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/chri...

An end-of-year update released by NHS England says that the NHS App has more than 39 million registered users. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/reco...

🚨 Top 10 news stories of 2025 🚨 This year saw several major announcements including the abolition of NHS England and the publication of a new 10 year health plan for England. We've chosen our top 10 most read health and tech stories in 2025. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...

Two apps aimed at supporting mental health during pregnancy and motherhood have won a global innovation award for women’s health. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ment...

🎅 Coffee Time Briefing Christmas Edition 🎅 Our Christmas Coffee Briefing features festive-themed news, including how lessons from the Covid pandemic can help ease NHS winter pressures. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...

Mental Health Act (MHA) patient information is now available in the London Care Record, OneLondon has announced. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ment...

A digital pathway has been launched to facilitate dedicated psychological support to those affected by the national infected blood scandal. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/infe...

Allied health professionals (AHPs) must “be brave” and step into digital leadership roles if the NHS is to deliver on the digital ambitions of the 10 year health plan, according to a panel of experts. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ahps...

NHS England has removed open source policy pages from its websites without any announcement or explanation to the public. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nhs-...

Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has deployed Patient Initiated Follow-up (PIFU) through the NHS App, in partnership with Netcall. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/roth...

Software provider OneAdvanced has acquired AI primary care healthcare provider Patchs Health Limited following a partnership between the two companies. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/onea...

DXS International which provides healthcare technology for the NHS has disclosed a cyber attack, which has led to data being stolen. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nhs-...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched a call for evidence on how AI in healthcare should be regulated. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/mhra...

Today’s briefing has insight into how children are getting medical advice from TikTok and a report into attitudes about mental health apps. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...

AI tools sometimes produce hallucinations when asked to remove personal patient information from electronic patient records (EPRs), a study has found. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/llms...

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with NTT DATA to create a secure data environment (SDE). www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/guys...

Opinion 🗣️ Ahead of his keynote at Digital Health Rewired 2026, clinician-scientist, surgeon, and entrepreneur Professor Hutan Ashrafian tells Digital Health News why true digital transformation is about keeping people healthy for as long as possible. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/huta...

Electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Nervecentre has further strengthened its presence in the north of England through a partnership with Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/mid-...

The first wave of stages included in the highly anticipated Digital Health Rewired 2026 programme have been announced. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/rewi...

Colleagues have paid tribute to “kind and brilliant” Professor Nick Hardiker, who was an influential academic in the field of nursing informatics. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/coll...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing has news on a significant milestone for home care firm Cera and a report showing how GPs use AI tools. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...

Former Pitchfest winner Limbic has partnered with the NHS Confederation to explore how AI can improve mental health services and access to care. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nhs-...

The NHS digital workforce plan may arrive too late to prevent the loss of critical skills across England’s integrated care boards (ICBs), NHS digital leaders have warned. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nhs-...

Opinion 🗣️ Cutting digital capability at a time when it’s needed most risks long-term consequences for the NHS, writes John Mitchell on behalf of the Digital Health Networks ICS Digital Council. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nhs-...

Health tech startup Holly Health and health information platform Patient.info have announced a collaboration to promote digital coaching. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...

Graphnet Health has been selected by Jersey’s Family Nursing and Home Care to provide the island’s first large-scale remote monitoring service www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/grap...

New qualifications have been launched to plug skills gaps in the UK’s MedTech sector, with an estimated 145,000 jobs needed by 2035. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/medt...

The UK and Singapore have launched a regulatory ‘innovation corridor’ to fast-track major medical advances and promising health technologies. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/uk-a...

Today’s briefing features a therapy app that uses movement to make music and £27.3m funding for biomedical and health research. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...

An initiative called TrustX has been launched to help verify, deploy, and test agentic AI for use across the NHS and social care. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/init...

Staffordshire County Council is adopting System C’s social care platform for adult and children’s case management. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/staf...

Opinion 🗣️ The NHS must avoid AI’s seductive overdiagnosis trap, writes Professor Christina Pagel, director of University College London’s clinical operational research unit. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...

A charity has called for systematic changes to stop patients from discovering their disease diagnoses through the NHS App without proper support.  www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/pati...

Today’s round includes innovations in robotic colon surgery and research into how comfortable patients are confiding in AI. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...

Personal patient and staff information has been posted on the dark web after hackers exploited a software vulnerability at Barts Health NHS Trust. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nhs-...

Workforce pressures are the biggest blocker to achieving the digital transformation in the NHS 10 year health plan, according to research by Digital Health. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/work...

Opinion 🗣️ The government’s ‘shift to digital’ is not achievable without teams that can deliver it, writes Natalie Chishick, founder of Chishick Communications. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/why-...

A national dashboard is being rolled out across NHS maternity services to help spot serious safety issues and prevent neonatal tragedies. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nhs-...

Exclusive: The Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB) will relaunch in 2026 with a revised funding model, after NHS England ceased its core funding this month. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/prsb...

An AI-guided digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tool to help manage mild to moderate mental health problems is being piloted in GP surgeries. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-g...

Four in five (80%) of care providers have replaced paper-based processes with digital social care records, the government has announced. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/four...

Our latest Movers and Shakers features a new chair of the Health Data Research Service (HDRS) and the appointment of the first ever integrated care board (ICB) chief executive from a minority ethnic background. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/move...

Velindre University NHS Trust has selected Better as its preferred supplier to deliver an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to replace paper-based processes with digital systems. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/veli...

An AI imaging tool can help doctors spot deadly clots in stroke patients more than an hour earlier, a study has found. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-t...

The UK should leverage its new Health Data Research Service (HDRS) for the “benefit of the Treasury coffers”, said Zubir Ahmed, health innovation minister. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/uk-s...

Digital Health Rewired 2026 attendees will have a chance to see a live demonstration of humanoid robots that could revolutionise NHS patient care. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/rewi...

Opinion 🗣️ Increasing pressures on maternity services require more innovative ways to deliver essential digital training to midwives, writes Jennifer Lyons, digital clinical lead – maternity at University Hospitals of Northamptonshire www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/trai...

NHS hospital trusts across the north west of England will share patients’ radiology images through an upgraded cloud portal from early 2026. digitalhealth.net/2025/12/nort...

Irish life sciences and health tech companies set a decade-high record in 2024 raising €491.3 million (£432m) across 89 venture capital deals, according to a report powered by PitchBook data. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/irel...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s update features a platform supporting children with diabetes and the launch of a Postpartum Mum Tracker tool. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/digi...