This paper is for the Board’s information to provide an overview of the NHS OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service Pilot Directions 2025 (Directions) issued to NHS England in June 2025 by the Secretary of ...

Agreement supports Government’s 10 Year Health Plan priority to drive digital innovation across the NHS Expansion of digital ...

NHS England has published an opportunity to tender for a data platform for use in the health service. The anticipated value of the five-year contract will be up to £360m, but with an option to extend ...

Smarter spending isn’t just about cutting costs, it’s about investing wisely to simplify processes, reduce duplication, ...

Scrapping NHS Digital and folding it into NHS England will be a “significant retrograde step” when it comes to safeguarding patient privacy rights, particularly in the wake of ongoing concerns over ...

The word ‘cybersecurity’ doesn’t appear once in the government’s 171 page ‘fit for the future’ NHS plan. Going forward the ...

Key areas of focus include maternal and neonatal health where outcomes for Black, Asian and mixed ethnicity women remain poor ...

Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into NHS hospitals is far harder than initially anticipated, with complications around governance, contracts, data collection, harmonisation with old IT ...

NHSE is building a £6 million AI research screening platform to enable trusts to join trials of AI in screening to help speed up diagnosis.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) platform is being piloted across the NHS to free up hospital beds, officials have announced. The technology aims to accelerate patient discharges by automating the ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is to press ahead with and accelerate its controversial plans to enable data sharing processes across the NHS. The scheme, dubbed 'Plan for Patients', ...