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
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 £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
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
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
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
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
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
