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A new showcase series is reshaping NHS-supplier engagement. Pioneers at the first NHS host brought together hundreds of staff organisation-wide, along with major tech companies and niche innovators in a single day, already inspiring 10 further NHS providers to follow in 2026.
Highland has launched Elevate, a new health tech event series that is bringing
Continue reading Highland launches Elevate – bringing health tech direct to the NHS
The cultural change needed to bring about a shift in fire safety starts with a recognition of a duty of care by all of those responsible across multiple sectors, says growing fire safety body Fire Aware.
Everyone involved in the design, construction, maintenance and letting of the built environment needs to understand that they
Continue reading Safety is now a duty of care across multiple sectors, says Fire Aware
Can the seemingly intractable problem of delayed hospital patient discharge be solved by the creation of a single responsible body?
By Norman Niven, CEO at The Medication Support Company and former director at BUPA
What seems to be the problem?
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the NHS is greater numbers of patients experiencing delayed
Continue reading The Long Goodbye
Following the announcement of a national collaboration with the Greek government, Sword Intelligence is bringing AI-led triage, care coordination and access operations to help the UK tackle waiting lists and access pressure.
Sword Intelligence has launched in the UK and Europe to bring AI-led care operations designed to help healthcare providers improve access, manage
Continue reading Sword Intelligence launches in the UK, bringing proven national-scale AI care operations set to transform healthcare in Greece
Steve Sanghera
The 10-year health plan outlined earlier this year intends to make the NHS ‘digital by default’ and central to the overhaul will be the roll out of an NHS App tool which will read real-time data from wearables, biometric sensors or smart devices.
According to one Government source: “This Plan will take
Continue reading A shift from analogue to digital sits at the heart of the Government’s ambitious plans for NHS reform in England
Phoenix Software is proud to reflect on a successful year of fundraising in 2025, with a series of events and challenges raising significant funds in support of St Leonard’s Hospice.
The highlight of the year was Race for a Reason, a four-day challenge inspired by the BBC TV show Race Across the World. In July, 30 Phoenix
Continue reading Phoenix Software raised over £25k for St Leonard’s Hospice in 2025
Critical service adopts the latest Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to support the transfusion laboratory testing and distribution of blood components and blood products for the population of ABUHB
The Blood Transfusion service at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has gone live with Clinisys™ WinPath in a first of type deployment in Wales.
The
Continue reading Blood transfusion at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) live with Clinisys™ WinPath
While governments can’t afford to mimic the startup model entirely – nor should it with the margin for error far narrower – what they can and should do, argues Dr Jon Rimmer, Chief Experience Officer at Mercator Digital, is borrow key traits to improve innovation
Right now, governments are under a huge amount of
Continue reading Why the government needs to borrow a ‘startup mentality’ to innovate better
Emergency departments and minor injury units across Northern Ireland are now benefitting from AI that helps clinicians accurately and efficiently identify bone fractures – deployed rapidly and at scale through Sectra Amplifier Services.
Sectra Amplifier Services, provided by Northern Ireland’s enterprise imaging partner Sectra, enables healthcare organisations to integrate AI tools directly into their
Continue reading AI helps ED doctors spot fractures as Northern Ireland deploys BoneView through Sectra
By Anthony Ghosh, MD FRCSMR
Anthony Ghosh
Back and neck pain are often framed as inevitable features of modern life, an individual inconvenience rather than a collective challenge. Yet new evidence shows that spinal health has become one of the UK’s most significant, yet under-recognised, public-sector issues. Affecting nearly one in five adults, spine-related
Continue reading The UK’s Rising Spine-Health Burden: Why Back and Neck Pain Are Now a Public-Sector Priority
A new attempt to create a national, longitudinal health record was one of the big ideas in the 10 Year Health Plan. However, the use case and architecture is far from clear, and there are some big commercial issues to address with health tech vendors.
The NHS has a troubled history when it comes to
Continue reading Highland advisory board discussion: The single patient record
Mark Venables
UK trade association AXREM and health tech growth specialist Highland have extended their partnership for two further years, reaffirming a shared commitment to supporting growth across the UK’s diagnostic and health technology markets.
AXREM represents member companies that collectively provide the majority of diagnostic medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment used in UK
Continue reading AXREM and Highland extend partnership to drive growth and visibility for the UK’s diagnostic health tech sector
Graham Jarvis
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist
It’s that time of year again. The festive Christmas lights are about to be turned on in the high streets to welcome shoppers, enticing them to buy presents for their loved ones. However, not all the festive commerce occurs in physical stores. Adobe reports
Continue reading The WAN You Want: The Data Centre Magic of Christmas
By Mark Scrivens, FPT UK Chief Executive Officer, FPT Corporation
Mark Scrivens
Although diagnosis can be one of the great challenges in healthcare, once a healthcare plan is developed, we naturally assume that patients take the medications that clinicians prescribe for them. However, this could not be further from reality. In fact, medication non-adherence
Continue reading The future is connected healthcare – How IoMT ecosystems can solve medication non-adherence
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
The head of the Armed Forces will issue a rallying cry this evening to the nation to build Britain’s resilience in the face of growing threats and uncertainty.
The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton will set out how a whole-nation response is needed in a more volatile and uncertain world.
Continue reading The whole nation ‘must step up’ to deter Russian threat of wider war in Europe
By Lawrie Day, CEO at Cognitas Global
Today’s public sector organisations face unprecedented challenges in training and development. Despite real world risks such as cyber breaches greater than ever before, the UK Government and public sector departments are under pressure to achieve more with less in terms of training their people, stretching limited budgets
Continue reading How experiential learning is defining a new era in Government learning
McAvoy has, for the first time, secured a place on Lot 2: Modular & Prefabricated Building Services, within the NHS Commercial Solutions’ £1bn Modular & Prefabricated Building Solutions Framework.
Through this four-year award, public sector clients will be able to access McAvoy’s full suite of expertise to support the delivery of modular buildings across
Continue reading McAvoy Awarded Place on NHS Commercial Solutions Framework Leading offsite manufacturer
Improvements to clinical practice and work-life balance are being achieved at pace by early adopters of digital pathology at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Luisa Motta and Dr Lynne Jamieson give the detail on the latest impact in a Greater Manchester wide programme.
Effective new digital multidisciplinary team meetings, better work-life
Continue reading How pathologists are rapidly changing decades of clinical practice: Impact in Greater Manchester
Author: Suzi Smith, Managing Director, Matrix
As I look back on 2025, it’s clear that the UK’s public sector has been navigating one of its most complex and transformative workforce landscapes in years. The pressures of cost management, legislative reform and evolving expectations from both candidates and hiring managers have converged to reshape how
Continue reading From Cost Control to Skills Control: How the Public Sector Will Redefine Recruitment in 2026
Four charity partners will benefit as the IT industry’s flagship yacht racing, networking and fundraising event sets its sights on its next quarter century
The UK’s largest charity and IT sailing event, the Russell-Cooke Silicon Cup Regatta, raised £50,000 in its 25th anniversary edition this autumn.
Since its inception, the annual two-day regatta in
Continue reading Russell-Cooke Silicon Cup Regatta celebrates its 25th anniversary by raising £50,000 for charity
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