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
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
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
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
A Welsh Government capital fund worth up to £250,000 per project has opened its doors to NHS health boards and third sector care organisations, alongside universities and private business. With applications closing on 25 September, providers and commissioners across Wales have a narrow window to secure funding for equipment that current budgets rarely stretch to cover. Continue reading Welsh Government Opens £250,000 Equipment Fund to NHS Health Boards and Care Bodies
Yvette Cooper has used a visit to the Rob Burrow Centre in Leeds to announce a fast-track care pathway for people with motor neurone disease, the first concrete step in the government’s promised National Care Service. Behind the announcement sits a harder question that will land squarely on commissioners and providers: how do you fast-track a pathway across health, social care and housing when the systems underneath it still barely talk to each other.
Continue reading Government Fast-Tracks Motor Neurone Disease Support as National Care Service Takes Shape
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has told developers, suppliers and NHS organisations exactly where the regulatory line sits for ambient voice technology. Continue reading AI Scribes Get Regulatory Clarity As MHRA Defines Medical Device
Seventeen early-stage quantum health projects have received £1.65 million from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, spanning home eye monitoring, ICU risk prediction and neurophysiological markers of Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading £1.65m Quantum Health Fund Targets Home Monitoring And Early Diagnosis
Andy Burnham has told Britain that the NHS could collapse without a fundamental fix to social care, reviving a debate that has outlasted six prime ministers before him. For care providers and technology suppliers who have spent years planning around promises that never became policy, the question is whether this one will be any different. Continue reading Burnham’s Social Care Warning Puts Digital Reform Back on the Table
Yvette Cooper has been appointed health and social care secretary by Andy Burnham, taking charge of a department where the NHS Federated Data Platform contract and Palantir’s role within it are approaching a decision point. Her record across four previous Cabinet posts gives the sector plenty to judge her by.
Continue reading New Health Secretary Yvette Cooper Inherits NHS Digital Transformation’s Biggest Unresolved Row
