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 has confirmed how £10 billion in technology funding will reach patients and clinicians over the next three years, led by AI triage and ambient notetaking tools. Continue reading NHS’s £10bn To Lead AI Triage And Ambient Notetaking Tools
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
The government has set out a decade-long capital strategy that will lift the NHS capital budget to £15bn by 2029/30, with billions earmarked for crumbling estates, RAAC removal and 250 neighbourhood health centres.
Continue reading NHS £15bn Capital Plan Targets Estate Repairs and Neighbourhood Health Hubs
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
Medtronic’s planned $650 million acquisition of SPR Therapeutics has shone a global spotlight on temporary peripheral nerve stimulation, a minimally invasive, drug-free approach to chronic pain that could hold significant implications for community health services and home-based care across the UK. Continue reading Could A New Wave Of Nerve Stimulation Technology Transform Chronic Pain Care At Home?
