Digital Health has published a working Summer Schools 2026 programme featuring CCIO, CIO and CNIO speakers, national leaders and subject matter experts. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/summ...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features a methodology for testing medical mattresses and research into how brains are interpreted and measured. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

System C has completed the rollout of its BadgerNet maternity platform across all seven NHS health boards in Wales, creating a single national digital maternity record and patient-facing app. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/syst...

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) and Alzheimer’s Society have launched a partnership to support promising dementia innovations and help them reach the NHS faster. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nia-...

Opinion 🗣️ Dr Penny Kechagioglou, Digital Health’s chief clinical information officer of the year, has warned that the NHS risks becoming “too attached to AI” at the expense of tackling challenges around access and inequality. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/penn...

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with its Nervecentre electronic patient record (EPR) system. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/york...

🎙️ Unplugged 🎙️ Host Jordan Sollof is joined in the latest episode of Digital Health Unplugged by Alcidion’s Paul Deffley and Tracy McClelland to discuss patient flow and why getting it right is essential for safety, efficiency and patient experience. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/fixi...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features VR technology for post-op recovery and an app to help men improve their fertility. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

The Ripple Women’s Digital Health Challenge has expanded from supporting two innovations to backing 26 women’s health technologies, with several set to be piloted in NHS settings. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/wome...

Digital Health is delighted to welcome Nervecentre, Optum and Better as the latest additions to the list of Networks sponsors. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

Opinion 🗣️ The technology to address delayed discharge must be used in a coordinated, system-wide way, write Christos Vasilakis, Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement, and Dr Zehra Onen Dumlu, University of Bath. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is using a new digital tool to help find people who may be at risk of liver disease, potentially before symptoms appear. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/roya...

With NHS England accelerating the professionalisation of the digital workforce, speakers from the organisations leading this national agenda will unite at Summer Schools 2026. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nhs-...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features a blood test to detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier and an AI-imaging software platform to treat lung disease. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched a £900m framework agreement designed to support the procurement of AI across the NHS and wider public sector. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nhs-...

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has awarded more than £5 million to nine research projects aimed at improving social care through digital technology. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nihr...

The chairs of the Digital Health Networks advisory panels have reacted to the NHS Modernisation Bill, which was announced in the King’s Speech last week. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/netw...

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) has gone live with phase one of its electronic patient record (EPR), following an intervention by NHS England which delayed the launch. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nort...

Swedish renal care provider Diaverum has launched kidney.com, an AI-powered health assistant designed to improve access to kidney health education. digitalhealth.net/2026/05/diav...

Our latest roundup of contracts and go lives features electronic patient record (EPR) contract awards for The Access Group and Epic, and the go-live of a digital maternity system at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

James Murray has been appointed as the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, replacing Wes Streeting, who announced his resignation yesterday. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/jame...

Wes Streeting has resigned as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, admitting that he has “lost confidence” in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/heal...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features a spike in the number of asthmatic people using combination inhalers and wearable technology for caregivers. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) has embedded national clinical guidance into its Altera Digital Health electronic patient record (EPR) to optimise the Acute Abdomen Pathway. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/west...

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) has gone live with the second phase of its acute electronic patient record (EPR) system. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/harr...

Opinion 🗣️ If TEC is to deliver on its promise, practitioners need to trust its insights, writes Robert Turnbull, care technology expert at PA Consulting. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/why-...

Dr Zubir Ahmed has resigned as health innovation and safety minister in protest over Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership and the Labour Party’s poor performance in the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/heal...

NHS trusts in England could spend more than £13.5 million in 2026 on correcting data problems that emerge after electronic patient record (EPR) go-lives, according to analysis by healthcare data specialists MBI Health. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/repa...

Salma Yasmeen, chief executive at Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, has been confirmed as the latest speaker for Digital Health Summer Schools 2026. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nhs-...

🎙️ Unplugged 🎙️ Winning the Rewired Pitchfest 2026 competition has put women’s health in the spotlight, but Daye’s founder Valentina Milanova tells Digital Health Unplugged that the UK is still “falling behind” on care, research and investment. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/pitc...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features a men’s health event at Ipswich Town Football Club and a merger to create a unified care management platform. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

Hospitals, GP practices and other NHS providers will be required to share patient data under new legislation to create a single patient record (SPR), the government has announced. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/gps-...

The NHS is granting staff from companies including Palantir ‘unlimited access’ to identifiable patient data while working on its federated data platform (FDP). www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/pala...

Opinion 🗣️ Estonia proves that digital transformation is less about technology and more about trust, pragmatism and persistence, writes Tammy Lovell, editor at Digital Health. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/10-l...

Optum UK, the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary that owns EMIS, has been acquired by US private equity firm TPG. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/gp-i...

AI-enabled software designed to help cardiologists make faster and more precise decisions during angioplasty procedures has been introduced at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/king...

A support service, which includes the use of an app, for people who witness out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in Essex has helped more than 260 bystanders in its first year. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/app-...

Good Hope Hospital, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), has begun using capsule endoscopy technology to examine the small bowel. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/midl...

Our latest Movers and Shakers roundup features a new chief executive for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and a new clinical oncology lead AI advisor at the Royal College of Radiologists. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/move...

Older people are being excluded from GP services because of a shift towards digital-first booking systems, a study has found. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/olde...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ This week’s briefing features Holland & Barrett’s partnership with Phlo and an awards nod for a wound assessment app. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

French HealthTech firm Doctolib has acquired UK electronic patient record supplier Medicus, with the aim of bringing improved technology, AI and services to GP practices across the UK. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/fren...

Digital technology should be used to support whole-system patient flow rather than simply improving bed management, according to a new report from Public Policy Projects (PPP). www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

Opinion 🗣️ NHS digital investment is being held back not by lack of urgency but by weak delivery on the ground, writes Professor Joe McDonald. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nhs-...

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has begun using AI with the aim of detecting skin cancer earlier. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/brad...

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) has selected the Portasana Patient Engagement Platform (PEP) to improve digital access and deliver more personalised and efficient care. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/linc...

☕ Coffee Time Briefing ☕ Today’s briefing features a project to bring telehealth to an island with no GP and software for AI-assisted colonoscopies. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/digi...

NHS England is temporarily restricting access to some of its open source code to strengthen security amid concerns about the impact of AI models. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/nhse...

Outdated and poorly connected IT systems are increasing workload pressures in general practice, according to a new Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) report. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/outd...

Health and social care technology provider System C has announced that its AI-powered FormFlow Assistant has been deployed across 15 local authority social care teams in England. www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/ai-d...