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
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
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
The Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Orpington Hospital has installed the Stryker Mako robotic-arm system, becoming the first NHS site in South East London to offer robot-assisted joint replacement. For a trust managing around 100 procedures a year through the new … Continue reading King’s College Hospital Trust Rolls Out Robotic Hip and Knee Replacement at Orpington
Port Manor Care Home in Seaford has begun using 360-degree virtual reality headsets within its new Memory Lane Community, part of a growing move to bring reminiscence-based technology into specialist dementia care. Continue reading Inside the VR Headsets Being Trialled in a Sussex Dementia Care Setting
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
Leicestershire Partnership Trust has told the Lampard Inquiry why it abandoned a bedroom monitoring system that a neighbouring trust is expanding across every inpatient unit. Continue reading Bereaved Families Take On Oxevision as NHS Adoption Figures Are Disputed
