Preet Kaur Gill MP faced the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on 7 July 2026 defending an NHS innovation record that may not survive the government she serves. Continue reading NHS Innovation Inquiry Closes as Burnham’s Care Service Pledge Looms
NHS England has confirmed how £10 billion in technology funding will be spent, with AI triage and ambient notetaking taking the headlines. Buried inside the announcement is a Single Patient Record that could matter far more to social care providers than either of those tools, if it is built to actually reach them. Continue reading NHS’s £10bn AI Push Raises the Interoperability Question Social Care Keeps Asking
A Dementia Action Week panel heard that care providers are increasingly willing to challenge regulatory caution in pursuit of better quality of life for residents, from forest walks to garden ponds. The message from Care England and NADCAS was blunt, a tick-box approach to risk is quietly causing the decline it claims to prevent. Continue reading Why Some Care Homes Are Choosing Risk Over Regulatory Comfort
A portable, AI-assisted MRI scanner that can be wheeled to a patient’s bedside has cleared UK regulatory approval, opening the door to brain imaging in settings that have never had access to it. For a system chronically short of radiology capacity, that access question matters as much as the technology itself.
Continue reading Bedside Brain Imaging Arrives in the UK as Hyperfine Launches Model 2 Swoop
A BMJ analysis warns that the UK-US pharmaceuticals deal could divert up to £45 billion from other NHS services by 2036, with knock-on costs landing squarely on adult social care. For commissioners already stretched thin, the real question is not whether the deal delivers cheaper medicines, but what it quietly takes away.
Continue reading UK-US Trade Deal Could Divert £45 Billion From NHS Care by 2036
Over one million children in England were referred to mental health services in the year to March 2025, almost double the figure from six years ago. With suspected autism referrals rising 47% in a single year, the children’s commissioner is demanding SEND reform. Continue reading Children’s Commissioner Calls for SEND Reform as Mental Health Waiting Lists Keep Growing
The government and Eli Lilly have committed £85 million to twelve technology-driven obesity care projects across the UK, from AI triage in East Anglia to round-the-clock WhatsApp coaching in Kent. Continue reading The £85 Million Bet on Getting Obesity Care Out of the Clinic and Into the Community
Greater Manchester has launched a multi-million-pound innovation cluster to accelerate the development and deployment of wearable health technology, backed by public funding and commercial investment. Continue reading Manchester NHS Trust Leads £11m Push to Bring Wearable Remote Monitoring Into Community Care
The MHRA has launched a first-of-its-kind AI regulatory sandbox to test whether artificial intelligence can predict how medicines behave in the body and catch safety risks that existing methods routinely miss. Continue reading MHRA Opens AI Sandbox to Tackle Drug Reactions Costing NHS £2 Billion a Year
Keir Starmer walked away from Downing Street on 22 June 2026 after nearly two years of turbulent NHS reform, a bitterly contested data platform deal, and a social care agenda that never found its footing. Continue reading Kier Starmer’s Stained NHS Legacy and the Palantir Problem
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