A US real estate investment trust has bought 24 newly built UK care homes and committed to 21 more in a £1.1bn sale and leaseback with LNT. Continue reading What A £1.1bn US Bet On 45 UK Care Homes Means For Providers
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has unveiled a dog-shaped robot that talks, fetches and alerts carers to falls. Continue reading Kawasaki’s Robot Dog That Fetches Your Phone and Alerts Carers Raises Questions for Care
Cera says at least 1,000 people in England now use its companion robots, and it claims large gains in productivity. Behind the figures sits an older argument about whether technology frees carers to care or quietly replaces them, and the evidence is still thin. Continue reading Companion Robots Are Entering British Care
A health innovation minister has admitted that public mistrust of Palantir may be driving a rise in NHS data opt-outs, just as ministers soften their stance on whether trusts must use the company’s Federated Data Platform. Continue reading Sixty Thousand Patients Opt Out Of Data Sharing Amid Palantir Concerns
A University of Edinburgh stud has found that ambient AI scribes now used by around 40 per cent of UK GPs can miss vital information and risk “cognitive offloading” that erodes clinical memory and reasoning. Continue reading AI Scribes Risk Deskilling GPs, University Of Edinburgh Study Warns
More than 350,000 votes and 6,000 public proposals have landed in the Casey Commission’s Big Conversation on Care since July, with the first consultation phase closing on 23 September. The engagement numbers are unusually large for a social care consultation. Continue reading What Casey Commission’s Big Conversation Data Signals For Commissioners
New Alzheimer’s Society research shows 46 per cent of carers say dementia diagnosis waiting times cost them work hours, and 37 per cent dipped into savings to cope. While NHS AI diagnostics funding concentrates on imaging and triage, memory clinic capacity has seen no equivalent investment, and families are absorbing the cost. Continue reading Dementia Diagnosis Waiting Times Data Shows Carers Losing Income
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has picked Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust to host its newest regulatory sandbox, putting AI-enabled devices in front of real patients and clinicians before wider NHS adoption. Continue reading MHRA and Manchester NHS Trust Launch Sandbox to Fast-Track AI Devices
Forty-four affordable homes, including a 24-flat extra care facility, have opened on a site in Lochgelly that stood empty for seven years. The completion closes out the latest phase of Fife Council’s Affordable Housing Programme and lands directly in the middle of a national argument about whether Scotland is building extra care housing fast enough to meet demand.
Continue reading Fife Council Opens 24-Flat Extra Care Facility On Long-Vacant Lochgelly Site
A £100 million procurement scheme launched this week is meant to solve a problem that has quietly strangled UK health tech innovation for years, promising AI companies that cannot win NHS contracts because they lack the turnover or track record of established suppliers. The first of four challenges puts NHS productivity, not defence or cyber security, at the front of the queue. Continue reading Treasury Opens £100m AI Procurement Competition Targeting NHS Productivity
