In February, health secretary Matt Hancock unveiled NHSX, a new body that will lead the digital transformation of public healthcare nationwide. "NHSX will combine some of the best minds from among the NHS, leading innovators and government into one unit to set national policy, remove red tape and create a culture of innovation to allow the best innovations to flourish," Hancock said at the time. He later added that the "X stands for user experience" and that the unit had been set up for two reasons: to "bring together our tech leadership into one decision-making point" and ..read more

Liverpool has some of the worst health inequalities in the UK, which it is trying to address by developing one of the country’s leading healthtech ecosystems. The city has the UK's only 5G testbed dedicated to health and social care and is home to the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the inaugural members of the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) scheme, a government project to advance digital healthcare. One of the key objectives of the GDE programme is to develop healthcare technology for the home that will help reduce hospital stays. To read th ..read more

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has taken the first step into Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology within the NHS, trialling a 'virtual employee' which will automatically process thousands of GP referrals a week. RPA is a technology solution uniquely suited to the issues the NHS is facing, namely: a reliance on paper-based processes and an overstretched staff. According to the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), automation could save the NHS up to £12.5 billion a year, the equivalent of 10 percent of its annual budget. To read this article in full, pl ..read more

Matt Hancock, the recently appointed Health and Social Care Secretary has announced a new technology vision for the NHS that aims to build "the most advanced health and care service in the world" underpinned by a modern technology architecture, a set of open standards and a focus on interoperability. His six-part plan sets out to ensure that health systems can talk to each other, introduce shorter procurement contracts, build a world-leading healthtech ecosystem, drive internal innovation, develop new technical skills across the NHS, and to form a culture in ..read more

The facility is testing new remote healthcare tech in a smart room that simulates a hospital room and a smart house that replicates a patient’s home ..read more

The Oriel assistant will initially answer questions about a £344m proposed move to a new eye care facility but Moorfields is already planning further features for patients ..read more

Sandra Easton, CFO at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation NHS Trust, explains how the new Centre of Excellence for robotic process automation (RPA) can serve as a model for every NHS Trust ..read more

Health secretary Matt Hancock claims NHSX is 'one of the most exciting things happening in the UK' but can yet another quango solve the NHS' digital problems ..read more

The collaboration aims to use AI and machine learning to discover new treatments for chronic kidney disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ..read more

Naeem Soomro, director of robotic surgery at Newcastle Hospital, told Computerworld UK that VR could save time, money and lives ..read more