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DIGITAL

Welsh health board helps BSL signers communicate with healthcare providers

By Liz Wells 06 October 2025

Powys Teaching Health Board is using a free app to help BSL signers to communicate with their healthcare providers.

ROBOTS

Shrewsbury and Telford trust adds more robot-assisted surgery

By Liz Wells 06 October 2025

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has extended its robotic-assisted surgery offering to include upper gastrointestinal (UGI) surgery.

HEALTH INNOVATION MANCHESTER

Health Innovation Network appoints new executive chair

By Liz Wells 06 October 2025

Professor Ben Bridgewater has been appointed as the new executive chair of the Health Innovation Network, representing England’s 15 regional health innovation networks.

TECHNOLOGY

NICE expands HealthTech evaluations

By Liz Wells 03 October 2025

NICE is to apply the same rigorous standards to evaluate medical devices, diagnostics and digital tools that it currently uses to assess new medicines.

TECHNOLOGY

NHS Wales moves closer to drone deliveries

By Liz Wells 03 October 2025

A drone network serving the Welsh Blood Service and Welsh Ambulance Service could soon become a reality after a new round of funding from the Department for Transport and Innovate UK.

HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY

Skin sensing technology set to transform eczema and psoriasis treatment

By Liz Wells 02 October 2025

Technology developed by Heriot-Watt University, in Edinburgh, has received more than £475,000 in funding to revolutionise how eczema is diagnosed and treated.

NHS ENGLAND

NHS online hospital to give patients more control

By Liz Wells 30 September 2025

The NHS is to set up an ‘online hospital’ – NHS Online – which will digitally connect patients to expert clinicians anywhere in England.

PROCUREMENT

NHS revamps approach to buying technology

By Liz Wells 29 September 2025

The government has unveiled plans to revamp the way that the NHS buys medical technology.

THE HEALTH INNOVATION NETWORK

Progress, productivity and potential

29 September 2025

Health innovation is no longer on the margins of healthcare discussion, writes Richard Stubbs, chair at Health Innovation Network

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

Smart textile band monitors muscle health to boost healthy ageing

By Liz Wells 26 September 2025

Scientists are developing a smart textile band that aims to objectively detect and monitor sarcopenia, an age-related condition defined as loss of muscle mass, function and power.

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

Scotland's new health and social care app to be rolled out from April

By Liz Wells 26 September 2025

Scotland’s new health and social care online app will be made available across the country from April 2026, following an initial launch in Lanarkshire in December.