A US biotech has recorded the first continuous read of cortisol taken directly from human skin, using the same aptamer technology that underpins next-generation glucose sensors. Continue reading Why a New Hormone-Tracking Patch Matters for NHS Digital Plans
Digital medication records were meant to be standard across UK social care years ago, yet adoption still lags national targets. MedPal AI’s acquisition of eMARx shows how care technology providers are moving to fill that gap themselves, and what it costs commissioners when they do. Continue reading MedPal AI’s £474,000 Acquisition Exposes Gaps in Domiciliary Care Technology
The Cumberland Infirmary has carried out its first robot-assisted operations, more than a decade after the technology became standard in England’s larger centres. For a trust that has long struggled to match the pace of urban providers, the rollout raises a sharper question: can a single system meaningfully close a regional care gap, or does it simply catch Cumbria up to where the rest of the country already was.
Continue reading North Cumbria Trust Targets 90% Keyhole Surgery via Robotics
NHS England Midlands has named Heidi Health sole supplier under the largest ambient voice technology framework the health service has agreed, reaching 70,000 clinicians and 1,239 GP practices. Continue reading Heidi Secures Largest Ever NHS Ambient Voice Technology Deal
More than five million people in England and Wales speak a language other than English at home, and hundreds of thousands cannot communicate confidently in English at all. Continue reading Why AI Translation Tools Alone Won’t Fix Language Access in Social Care
NHS England wants wearable devices tracking the vital signs of at-risk patients at home, part of a strategy to prevent 1,000 sepsis deaths a year by 2035. Continue reading NHS Bets On Wearables To Catch Sepsis Before It Becomes A Crisis
A second parliamentary committee has called for the NHS to abandon its £330 million contract with Palantir, adding to mounting political pressure ahead of a 2027 break clause. With incoming Labour leadership reportedly reviewing the government’s wider AI strategy, the federated data platform’s future now looks more uncertain than at any point since it was awarded in 2023. Continue reading Second Select Committee Piles Pressure On NHS Over £330m Palantir Contract
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 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
Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has built its own AI tool to flag which A&E patients are most likely to come back within a month, then routes them into community follow-up before a crisis develops. Continue reading Greater Manchester Hospital’s AI Tool Cuts A&E Reattendance By Up To Half
