Your morning abstract of digital well being information, info and occasions to learn about if you wish to be “within the know”.
👇 Information
✋NHS England has launched a centralised platform to assist NHS volunteers discover the suitable alternative. The platform, at present in beta testing mode, instantly helps the federal government’s 10 12 months well being plan, and brings volunteering alternatives to a single, built-in platform.
💡Twelve of the world’s brightest minds in AI, pharma and neuroscience have been introduced as judges for the Longitude Prize on ALS – a five-year, £7.5m worldwide problem to remodel drug uncover for the remedy of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). 5 of the judges come from UK organisations together with Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi, professor of neurology and sophisticated illness genetics at King’s School London.
🗓️Hummingbirds Medical has launched BookYourGP, a digital platform serving to to remodel affected person security and recall methods throughout GP companies. The platform permits GP practices to organise, coordinate, automate and monitor all opinions in a single place, and is compliant with NHS DCB0129 security requirements.
🔎Silicon Observe has launched a free digital maturity evaluation NHS instrument. The instrument is designed to assist GP practices, main care networks, built-in care boards, hospital trusts and group well being groups perceive their present digital capabilities, permitting them to take actionable measures to enhance.
🤝Praesto Consulting has acquired BrightFrog, serving to to speed up the tech agency’s world development. BrightFrog’s experience in healthcare transformation might be strengthened by Praesto’s strengths in information technique and enterprise utility consulting. The monetary phrases of the deal haven’t been disclosed.
❓Do you know?
The Division of Well being and Social Care (DHSC) has elevated its IT spending considerably, spending over £3.6 million on laptops, mobiles and iPads previously three years, in keeping with info supplied in response to a Freedom of Info by the Parliament assume tank.
For the 2022-2023 interval, the DHSC invested £530,443. The determine for 2023-2024 was £2,849,015 and was £248,029.25 for 2024-2025.
The elevated spending was in help of the organisation’s ongoing distant working drive, with the majority of the cash spent on equipping workers throughout the well being and social care system with laptops, at a value of £3.1m over the three years.
📖 What we’re studying
The World Well being Group (WHO) printed a coverage temporary, on 1 September 2025, outlining key actions to speed up the adoption of digital well being options worldwide.
The steerage highlights sensible steps governments, well being methods and expertise builders can take to beat boundaries and scale digital instruments successfully.
In accordance with the ‘Accelerating the uptake of digital options by the well being and care workforce within the WHO European Area’ report, efforts ought to concentrate on strengthening management and governance, making certain digital well being options are built-in into nationwide well being methods.
The WHO underscores the significance of constructing digital literacy amongst well being employees and sufferers to facilitate uptake and efficient use of instruments akin to telemedicine, cell well being apps and digital well being data.
It additionally requires digital well being options to be designed with inclusivity in thoughts, addressing the wants of susceptible populations to scale back well being disparities.
🚨Upcoming occasions
29 October 2025, Birmingham – Shared Care Document Summit
