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Government Fast-Tracks Motor Neurone Disease Support as National Care Service Takes Shape
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…
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AI Scribes Get Regulatory Clarity As MHRA Defines Medical Device
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has told developers, suppliers and NHS organisations exactly where the regulatory line sits for ambient voice technology.
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£1.65m Quantum Health Fund Targets Home Monitoring And Early Diagnosis
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.
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Burnham’s Social Care Warning Puts Digital Reform Back on the Table
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.
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New Health Secretary Yvette Cooper Inherits NHS Digital Transformation’s Biggest Unresolved Row
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.
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Millions Of Unpaid Carers Receive Recognition And Early Support
A new cross-government action plan wants unpaid carers registered on the NHS App and visible through the single patient record, with hospital discharge planning and school attendance data doing the rest of the identifying.
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