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- News round-up (22 November 2024)
- AI speech recognition solution dramatically cuts medical reporting times
- New EU virtual reality project aims to revolutionise health care
- AI tool shows three times as many long Covid cases than previously thought
- Mental health patients ‘abandoned’ by ministers
- News round-up (15 November 2024)
- Barriers to accessing health data should be removed, review says
- Adverse childhood experiences can lead to depression and anxiety in adulthood, study finds
- Data map reveals disparities in young people’s mental health across the UK
- Mental health patients to have stronger protections, government says
- News round-up (8 November 2024)
- Insomnia app recommended by NICE unavailable in most of NHS
- Anxiety epidemic among children leads to sharp increase in mental health referrals
- Young people’s moods are directly affected by ‘likes’ on social media, study finds
- Mental health charities offer cautious welcome for autumn budget
- News round-up (1 November 2024)
- New mobile app for detecting autism could help children in war-torn countries
- Depression changes the circuits in the brain, study finds
- Six NHS trusts create partnership to speed up adoption of AI in radiology
- CQC identifies safety problems on mental health wards
- News round-up (25 October 2024)
- Cutting drug deaths and training social workers – VR finds new applications
- Video games can boost cognition – and maybe mental health
- Every NHS patient to be given portable medical records, Streeting promises
- News round-up (18 October 2024)
- ‘Warning lights are flashing’ on attitudes to mental health, charity says
- Charity calls for mental health investment to boost economy
- Health regulator told to pause some work amid internal failings
- Poor mental health support having negative effect on learning
- Reliance on AI search engines for medication information creates risk
- News round-up (11 October 2024)
- World Mental Health Day 2024: Mental health at work
- Racism damages mental health, study finds
- AI bringing different data together to form new insights
- AI tool cuts unexpected hospital deaths by 1 in 4, study finds
- News round-up (4 October 2024)
- People who migrate as adolescents have a higher risk of psychosis, study finds
- New AI phone apps can detect signs of mental illness
- UK government missed opportunities to support mental health during pandemic, report says
- Video games designed to boost mental wellbeing in children show modest benefits
- News round-up (27 September 2024)
- University partners with YouTube Health to improve quality of mental health information
- NHS ICB to use data to improve mental health services
- Digital mental health therapies could free up thousands of NHS hours, NICE says
- Mental illness is Britain’s biggest health concern
- News round-up (20 September 2024)
- New data on Mental Health Act detentions shows urgent need for reform, charities say
- Using AI to allocate patients to treatment can reduce hospitalisation
- Evaluation Associates wanted
- Government minister suggests social media ban for children
- AI tool could predict over 1,000 diseases before diagnosis
- News round-up (13 September 2024)
- NHS broken but not beaten, says PM following release of Darzi Report
- Thousands of new graduates going straight to long-term sickness
- Putting money into mental health services would boost the economy, report finds
- Virtual reality project launched to help homeless people improve mental health
- RYSE Special Opportunities Fund invests in digital therapeutics supporting women’s mental health
- News round-up (30 August 2024)
- North London Mental Health Partnership adopts personal health record
- Tony Blair Institute calls for NHS to introduce digital health record for every citizen
- Majority of care providers want hospital discharge reform, report finds
- News round-up (23 August 2024)
- NHS trust offers mental health support for students receiving exam results
- Health care students to benefit from virtual reality room
- Government to slow down reform of Mental Health Act
- ‘Alarming’ global surge in mental ill-health and public awareness leaving NHS unable to cope with demand
- News round-up (9 August 2024)
- Covid can lead to cognitive problems three years after infection, study finds
- Problematic smartphone use in teens linked to anxiety and depression, studies find
- Thousands of people omitted from mental health statistics
- Dilnot says ditching of social care plans is a ‘tragedy’
- News round-up (2 August 2024)
- New online therapies enable more people with anxiety to receive treatment
- Bid writer wanted ASAP
- User-led youth mental health training developed for marginalised communities
- Poverty can lead to mental illness, and vice-versa, study finds
- Hospitals ordered to stop discharging people with severe mental illness
- News round-up (26 July 2024)
- New video guides will help people with autism to prepare for maternity and GP appointments
- Increase in use of AI in healthcare sector leads to data security concerns
- NHS mental health services should partner with voluntary sector to transform care, report argues
- AI can improve cancer detection rates – and speed up diagnosis of heart problems
- News round-up (19 July 2024)
- Two new computer games focus on mental health
- King’s speech announces long-awaited reform of Mental Health Act, waiting times and prevention
- New AI tools could speed up cancer diagnosis – and improve treatment
- Chatbots can fill gaps in mental health services, study finds
- News round-up (5 July 2024)
- Staff to be trained in using AI to diagnose lung disease
- VR helps train nursing students and autistic people practise real-life skills
- Ministry of Defence offering yoga and ‘lived experience’ workshops to improve mental health
- News round-up (28 June 2024)
- Long-term loneliness increases risk of stroke by half
- Two in five mentally ill people told by NHS they are not ill enough to receive care
- Perinatal depression linked to heart disease risk
- Doctors call for an end to children being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
- News round-up (21 June 2024)
- Mental ill health is main reason for pupil absences, survey shows
- VR helps pain management and relaxation in labour and MRI scans
- Almost one million people claiming mental health benefits since lockdown
- Reaping the benefits of AI innovations – from ingestible capsules to home monitoring
- ‘Cost-effective, scalable and high-quality’: optimising XR’s potential in medical education
- News round-up (14 June 2024)
- Depression is linked to memory decline, study finds
- Looking at trees can improve mental wellbeing, study finds
- Suicide risks found in nearly half of A&E and mental health wards
- NHS to launch physiotherapy clinic run by AI
- News round-up (7 June 2024)
- Non-invasive deep brain stimulation may help to treat depression and addiction
- Virtual reality can improve teenagers’ mental wellbeing, study finds
- AI tools rule out heart attacks and diagnoses lung cancer early
- Record numbers of patients kept in mental health units longer than necessary
- News round-up (31 May 2024)
- Virtual reality enables doctors to experience what it’s like to be a patient
- Group activities socially prescribed to children
- Thousands of people with autism have undiagnosed mental illness, study suggests
- News round-up (24 May 2024)
- Mentally unwell children subject to a “form of torture” by being put on wrong wards
- Pre-pandemic brain scans predicted mental health outcomes during pandemic
- Using extended reality to tackle the workforce shortage in healthcare
- College uses AI mannequins to train health and care practitioners
- Poor staff mental health costs employers £51bn a year, report finds
- News round-up (17 May 2024)
- New AI tool can assess suicide risk
- Virtual reality enhances working memory, research suggests
- Government policies should face mental health impacts test, charity argues
- Six mental health trusts rollout digital tool for mental health care
- Mental Health Awareness Week 2024
- News round-up (10 May 2024)
- Medicines agency sets out its approach to AI
- ‘Raising the skill floor of new graduates’: how XR is creating exciting new opportunities in healthcare education
- Virtual reality could be effective in treating depression, study finds
- Black mothers twice as likely to be hospitalised with perinatal mental illness
- News round-up (3 May 2024)
- Number of new mothers accessing mental health treatment rises dramatically
- Covid inquiry accused of ignoring reality of mental health problems caused by lockdown
- ‘More competent clinicians’: justifying the investment in XR in healthcare
- Childhood cognitive ability not linked to depression in adulthood
- Coventry University using AI avatars to train medical students
- News round-up (26 April 2024)
- Leaving our bubble: how we make extended reality work for healthcare professionals
- People detained under the Mental Health Act dying at three times the rate of those held in prisons
- More than 15,000 patients died in the care of mental health trusts in one year
- Artificial intelligence performs better than doctors, studies find
- Virtual reality game will help detect early signs of Alzheimer’s
- News round-up (12 April 2024)
- Covid inquiry failing to examine lockdown’s effect on mental health, organisations complain
- New blood tests could enable NHS to diagnose dementia
- Suicide rate in England has risen, new figures show
- Nearly one in three NHS staff take time off for mental health problems
- News round-up (5 April 2024)
- Raising standards and driving efficiencies – how immersive technology is transforming health care education
- Schools must tackle mental health emergency amongst teachers, says teaching union
- News round-up (28 March 2024)
- Calls for police to keep answering mental health calls, while forces suffer their own crisis
- Mental illness costs England £300bn a year, analysis shows
- Number of young people waiting for mental health treatment reaches record high
- What is the potential on offer from extended reality (XR) in healthcare education?
- Covid-19 survivors face greater risk of mental health problems, study finds
- News round-up (22 March 2024)
- Three in five fraud victims go on to experience mental health problems
- Mental health funding programme supports more than 3,000 students
- Thousands of people off work because of mental health problems
- Mental health problems on the increase among performing artists – but playing in an orchestra helps
- News round-up (15 March 2024)
- One in three employees experience toxic behaviour in the workplace
- Grandparents have a big impact on mothers’ mental health
- WHO issues new guidebook to support diagnosis of mental disorders
- Abuse is the main cause of mental illness in women, survey finds
- News round-up (8 March 2024)
- Twin study reveals link between childhood trauma and adult illness
- Young adults using vapes more likely to be anxious and lonely, study finds
- Talking therapies can help women with menopause-related anxiety
- New innovative health tech fund launches to invest with impact
- Peer support helps people recover from mental illness, study finds
- News round-up (1 March 2024)
- Ambulance chiefs criticise police over Right Care Right Person programme
- Dancing is best exercise to treat depression, study finds
- The mental health workforce has grown – but it’s less experienced
- Young people more likely to have mental disorder than any other age group, report says
- News round-up (23 February 2024)
- Sleep problems can trigger mental illness, study finds
- Black mental health inpatients more likely to be forcibly restrained by police
- Digital CBT reduces anxiety and depression in people with long-term physical health conditions
- Depression linked to rise in body temperature – while certain smells can trigger happy memories, studies find
- News round-up (16 February 2024)
- Advance choice documents could reduce numbers of people sectioned under Mental Health Act
- Young people’s mental health referrals reach half a million
- Autistic people would like research to prioritise mental health, study finds
- Telehealth can prevent depression and loneliness, study shows
- News round-up (9 February 2024)
- Young people put on a ‘brave face’ to avoid talking about mental health
- Dramatic rise in children’s emergency mental health referrals
- Virtual reality can help treat children with phobias, study finds
- More than a quarter of UK secondary pupils avoid school due to anxiety, survey finds
- Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 – 1 in 6 children have diagnosable mental health issue
- News round-up (2 February 2024)
- Early discharge of mental health patients presents suicide risk, report finds
- Language Matters on Time to Talk Day
- Prisoners with mental health problems spending months in isolation
- Black and poorer people more likely to be detained under Mental Health Act
- Community perinatal mental health teams reduce risk of relapse
- News round-up (26 January 2024)
- Personal stories of overcoming mental illness can help others, study finds
- Outreach programme increases uptake of physical health in people with mental illness
- Nearly half a million children are waiting for mental health treatment
- Rising numbers take time off work for poor mental health caused by stress
- News round-up (19 January 2024)
- Why exercise gives your brain a boost – it’s down to dopamine
- Tens of thousands of people with mental health problems offered work coaching by NHS
- Thousands of mental health inpatients readmitted within a month, figures show
- Blue Monday – the year’s most depressing day?
- News round-up (12 January 2024)
- Outsourcing mental health services is proving costly for the NHS
- Three-quarters of gym-goers report boost in mental health, report says
- Rethink of adult ADHD services is needed, say researchers
- Taking days off school can damage children’s mental health, parents told
- News round-up (5 January 2024)
- Thousands of parents turn to mental health charity for help supporting their child
- People on long-term sick leave to be offered recreational activities
- Depression and vitamin D deficiency increase risk of young-onset dementia
- News round-up (22 December 2023)
- ADHD medication will face supply problems until April
- Exposure to high amounts of artificial light at night time increases risk of mental health problems
- Psychosis is linked to childhood trauma, study finds
- Children’s mental health threatened by increased financial pressures on families
- News round-up (15 December 2023)
- Trained peer supporters can plug gap in medication advice
- Court case could change universities’ duty of care to student mental health
- New coalition launches review into dementia care
- Covid lockdown had detrimental effect on people’s mental health, report finds
- News round-up (8 December 2023)
- Young people less likely to go to university if mother has depression
- Internet usage does not appear to harm mental health, study finds
- Women with maternal mental health problems face long waits
- Dramatic rise in children and young people with eating disorders, survey finds
- News round-up (1 December 23)
- Nurses with suicidal thoughts doubles in one year; majority of carers stressed, anxious or depressed
- New studies explain how electric shock therapy treats depression
- People who followed Covid rules now have worse mental health, survey finds
- Mental health patients left languishing in hospitals for years
- News round-up (24 November 2023)
- Mental health charities criticise stricter benefit sanctions announced in Autumn Statement
- Genetic profiling could identify which antidepressants work best for patients
- Patients face two-year wait for community mental health services
- NHS approves virtual reality treatment for severe agoraphobia
- News round-up (17 November 2023)
- Using painkillers long term may contribute to poor mental health and substance abuse
- People with mental illness more likely to have multiple physical illnesses, study finds
- Number with hidden disabilities soars by two-thirds over six-year period
- Labour pledge reform of mental health care
- News round-up (10 November 2023)
- Clinicians and patients are both positive about digital tech for mental health, study finds
- Campaigners disappointed as government shelves mental health reform
- New race equality framework for patients and carers
- Thousands of people with learning disabilities held in ‘inhumane’ mental health units
- News round-up (3 November 2023)
- New blood test can improve diagnosis of bipolar disorder
- Racism on mental health wards impacts patient experiences of care, research shows
- Cost-of-living crisis takes mental health toll
- Government announces earlier mental health support for young people
- News round-up (27 October 2023)
- More mental health help needed for under-5s, report says
- Quality of mental health care has declined, says CQC report
- What can we learn from Finland’s health care system?
- Charity calls for social prescribing strategy to tackle mental health crisis among the young
- People with severe mental illness more likely to die prematurely during pandemic
- News round-up (20 October 2023)
- Link between adult diagnosis of ADHD and dementia, study finds
- A third of young people embarrassed to seek support for mental health
- Green spaces and bodies of water improve mental wellbeing, study finds
- Parents’ poor mental health has major impact on next generation, study finds
- News round-up (13 October 2023)
- Benefit sanctions, social media tax and new support for teenagers: party conference roundup
- Traveller communities have a seven times higher risk of suicide, report finds
- UK hit by shortage of ADHD medication
- New mental health language guide announced on World Mental Health Day
- Mental health care in England a ‘national emergency’
- News round-up (6 October 2023)
- Photography to be prescribed for people with mental health problems
- University students more at risk of depression than non-students
- 7 in 10 GPs see a ‘worrying’ rise in patients with cost of living-related problems
- NHS mental health waiting lists leaves patients ‘at the mercy of unregulated counsellors,’ leading psychiatrist warns
- News round-up (29 September 2023)
- Scientists discover new biomarker for depression
- 10-year plan needed to tackle root causes of England’s mental ill-health, charities say
- Mind launches new mental health guidelines for media coverage
- Unintended pregnancies affect mental health of new fathers
- News round-up (22 September 2023)
- Suppressing negative thoughts can be good for mental health, study finds
- Cost-of-living crisis means most young people believe they will never be financially secure, research finds
- NHS England raises concerns about the risks of new policing model
- Government launches campaign to tackle student loneliness
- News round-up (15 September 2023)
- England’s only helpline for antidepressant withdrawal to close
- More than half of young people take time off work with poor mental health
- Government launches strategy to cut number of suicides
- Millions of UK parents have mental health problems, research suggests
- News round-up (8 September 2023)
- Early mental health care improves outcomes and reduces cost burden, study finds
- Disability benefit assessments will change to encourage people with mental health problems into work
- Family members of critically ill Covid patients more likely to experience depression
- Steep rise in waiting times for perinatal mental health care
- News round-up (1 September 2023)
- ‘Startling’ increase in police absences in Scotland as a result of mental ill health
- Government offers £10m to charities to work on suicide prevention
- Government to tackle rise in people off work sick through mental ill health
- News round-up (25 August 2023)
- GCSE results hit by high rates of mental ill health, headteachers say
- ‘Staggering rise’ in mental health problems leads to surge in young people claiming disability benefit
- Concerns that government will ditch mental health reforms
- Number of children in mental health crisis hits record high
- News round-up (18 August 2023)
- Half of perinatal depression cases undiagnosed, midwives say
- South London leading the way with health coaching app and digital mental health strategy
- More than one in five child mental health referrals in Scotland are rejected
- Therapy to tackle social media use could help reduce depression, study suggests
- News round-up (11 August 2023)
- Air pollution is linked to higher use of psychiatric services in dementia patients, study finds
- Areas with lower bird diversity have more mental health admissions
- People who live in deprived areas have poorer quality of sleep, research finds
- US approves pill to treat postpartum depression
- Steep rise in mortgage rates affecting the mental health of millions, survey finds
- News round-up (4 August 2023)
- Half of the global population will have a mental disorder by age 75, study finds
- Depression diagnosis increases dementia risk, study finds
- NHS waiting lists are impacting GPs’ mental health, survey finds
- Mental ill-health is responsible for the rise in numbers of long-term sick, new figures suggest
- News round-up (28 July 2023)
- New test could improve early detection of dementia
- Police in England to attend fewer mental health call-outs under new government plan
- Mental ill-health in fathers increases risk of preterm birth
- Staff shortages are holding back plans to improve mental health services, report warns
- News round-up (21 July 2023)
- Personal debt is linked to mental health problems, survey finds
- Metropolitan Police officers will consult doctors before sectioning patients
- Sharp rise in ADHD diagnoses – as waiting lists grow longer
- ‘Partnership is key’ – creating a sustainable health and care workforce
- Young women who ask for mental health help are called ‘dramatic’, survey finds
- News round-up (14 July 2023)
- Mental health campaigners call for enquiry into how patient deaths are recorded
- Racism is a ‘stain on the NHS,’ leading psychiatrist says
- Government announces investigation into care of mental health inpatients in England
- Mental health campaigners welcome NHS workforce plan
- Using VR for training staff
- News round-up (23 June 2023)
- Learning about mental health boosts children’s wellbeing, study finds
- Thousands of patients sent miles away for treatment
- ‘At the heart of it is a person’: how do we integrate health and social care?
- Government urged to launch inquiry into failings at mental health hospitals
- Two million people take antidepressants for more than five years
- News round-up (9 June 2023)
- A flexible, modern workforce – the wellbeing and retention of staff in health and care
- Eye witnesses to serious crime will now receive psychological support
- Stopping smoking boosts mental health, study finds
- Government needs to improve Care Workforce Pathway attractive to employers, sector says
- Universities’ support for students’ mental health is inadequate
- ‘We have a burning platform’: addressing the crisis facing the health and social care workforce
- Metropolitan police will stop attending emergency mental health calls
- News round-up (26 May 2023)
- Children with complex mental health problems are ‘at risk’ on general wards
- AI voice coach can help people with mental health conditions, study finds
- AI mental health app reduces anxiety and depression, study finds
- Cost-of-living crisis has major impact on people’s mental health, report finds
- News round-up (19 May 2023)
- Mental health crisis diverts police from frontline duties, PCC says
- Number of people off work sick reaches record high
- Response to BBC Panorama “Private ADHD Clinics Exposed” programme
- Online talking therapy approved for use in England
- Multi-year innovation partnership agreed to enable accelerated access, starting with mental health and wellbeing
- Mental health awareness week 2023 launches
- News round-up (12 May 2023)
- Successful initiative to reduce waiting lists to be rolled out in the North East
- People with serious mental illness less likely to attend cancer screening
- Poor mental health increases risk of heart attack, study finds
- News round-up (5 May 2023)
- New mothers miss out on mental health services
- Young people worldwide are using social media to boost their mental health
- Mental health sick days soar amongst ambulance crews
- News round-up (28 April 2023)
- Regulator to increase spot checks of mental health providers
- Ambulance crews in England spend 1.8m hours a year on mental health callouts
- 1 in 5 GPs report experiencing depression, research finds
- Teenagers turn to social media rather than adults for mental health support, research finds
- News round-up (21 April 2023)
- Wearable tech offers new approach to mental health support
- One in five young people feel anxious all the time, survey finds
- Police no longer required to attend mental health call-outs
- NHS failing to treat children with mental health problems
- News round-up (7 April 2023)
- Mental health pilot reduces A&E admissions
- Mental health impact of pandemic triggers ‘second midlife crisis’
- Young people to take part in online arts programme to improve mental health
- Health professionals to receive virtual reality training in perinatal mental health
- News round-up (31 March 2023)
- Robots can improve mental wellbeing in the workplace – if they look right
- Mental health charity issues call to local council candidates to boost mental health
- School adopts virtual reality software to support children’s mental health
- People with anxiety and depression age faster
- News round-up (24 March 2023)
- Two-thirds say their mental health was affected by Covid
- Spending time in front of a screen increases children’s risk of suicidal behaviour
- Government to scrap work capability assessment for people with disabilities
- Three in four adult patients wait more than four weeks for treatment
- News round-up (17 March 2023)
- MPs call for ban on electric shock therapy
- Police involvement in mental health teams must end, NHS says
- Poor mental health is main cause of long-term absence, study suggests
- 15 minute reduction in social media use improves both mental and physical health
- News round-up (10 March 2023)
- Pandemic may not have had as great an effect on mental health as feared
- Three-quarters of children detained under Mental Health Act are girls
- Mental ill health takes toll on UK workforce
- Royal Marsden offers mental health app to young people living with cancer
- News round-up (3 March 2023)
- NHS plans to reduce antidepressant use through social prescribing
- Increase in mental health budgets can’t keep up with demand, report finds
- Half of ‘economically inactive’ people have mental health condition
- Exercise is more effective than medicine in managing mental health
- News round-up (24 February 2023)
- Government to review patient data in mental health settings
- Police dealing with more people in mental health crisis than ever
- New funding boost for drug and alcohol treatment in England
- New training programme to improve children’s mental health
- News round-up (17 February 2023)
- NHS Providers warns of ‘dire state’ of children’s mental health services
- Rates of mental disorder increase among older teens, DfE says
- Mental health calls to Scotland’s NHS phone line soar by 580% in four years
- Therapy delivered remotely can help ease mental illness symptoms
- News round-up (10 February 2023)
- Millions of people with mental health problems not seeking help
- NHS England wants to remove police involvement in mental health care
- Mental health AI has ‘significant shortcomings,’ WHO study finds
- Limbic Access is first AI chatbot to receive medical device certification in UK
- News round-up (3 February 2023)
- Police force will bill NHS for time spent on mental health calls
- Young people ‘disastrously’ affected by Covid pandemic, research shows
- Fewer patients being treated for mood disorder, figures show
- Young people only admitted as mental health inpatients after multiple suicide attempts, report finds
- Left in limbo on “hidden” waiting lists
- News round-up (27 January 2023)
- Mental health trust spends £3m on B&B places for patients
- Suicide calls to NHS crisis lines going unanswered
- Strengthen Mental Health Bill, say MPs
- New NHS mental health ambulances to provide specialised care
- News round-up (20 January 2023)
- End of EU funding will hit mental health services in Northern Ireland
- Half of NHS doctors are struggling with mental health problems
- A single brain network may be involved in six mental health conditions
- Cost-of-living crisis is harming mental health of half of adults
- News round-up (13 January 2023)
- Students’ mental ill-health could be related to subject choice
- Mental health trusts told to set out plans for improving racial equality
- Analysis of speech patterns can help diagnose mental illness
- Social media driving teenagers to self-diagnose mental health disorders, research finds
- News round-up (6 January 2023)
- Government boost for social prescribing
- Patients offered new scanning technology to assess brain function
- Steep rise in number of children with mental health problems
- News round-up 23 December
- Digital technologies should not replace traditional mental health support, report says
- Gen Z are the loneliest generation, research finds
- Scotland faces ‘mental health catastrophe,’ experts warn
- News round-up 16 December
- Mental health hospitals in need of £677m repairs
- 1 in 12 health care workers experienced PTSD during pandemic, research finds
- NHS England invests £10m in mental health support over winter
- News round-up 9 December
- Guided breathing technique helps people with PTSD, study shows
- People with severe mental illness excluded from services because they lack digital skills
- Treat the person, not the diagnosis – how digital tech is helping improve residential care
- Bereaved parents ask government to amend online safety bill
- News round-up 2 December
- A quarter of 17-19-year-olds have a probable mental disorder, survey shows
- Nation’s mental health has failed to recover since pandemic
- Mental illness accounts for half of workplace illnesses
- News round-up 25 November
- Mental health patients sent to hospitals miles from home
- Children to be prescribed videogames to ease anxiety
- Young people’s mental health symptoms don’t worsen after leaving CAMHS
- News round-up 18 November
- Screening for bipolar disorder should be routine, experts recommend
- Lack of computer access during the pandemic is linked to poorer mental health in young people
- Europeans’ use of antidepressants more than doubles in 20 years
- Magic mushroom ingredient can reduce depression, study finds
- Data can transform social care – five projects show how it’s done
- News round-up 11 November
- Three-quarters of social media users see self-harm content online by age 14
- Islington launches mental health support for young Black men
- Exercise could prevent mental illness in a quarter of people, research shows
- ‘A bit of a wild west’: a new standard to introduce rigour to the market in AI health care tools
- News round-up 4 November
- Providers of digital technology for mental health care should adopt ethical framework, report argues
- Being around birds improves mental health, research finds
- Scottish government invests in digital solutions to support mental health
- Increase in children treated on adult psychiatric wards
- New role – Director of Research & Innovation
- News round-up 28 October
- Free mental wellbeing services launched for children in Harrow
- NHS to prescribe rollerskating to teenagers to address anxiety
- News round-up 21 October
- Mental health trusts unable to access patient records after cyber attack
- Outgoing Mind chief exec warns of ‘significant damage’ from mental health cuts
- NICE and MHRA will review regulation of digital mental health tools
- Mental health policies for drug and alcohol users are not being followed in Scotland
- News round-up 13 October
- Be kind to your mind, government urges
- Government launches back-to-work drive for people with mental health problems
- Mental health patients turn to A&E for help as waiting lists lengthen
- News round-up 7 October
- Number using IAPT services rises by one-fifth
- People with recent dementia diagnosis have higher risk of suicide, study finds
- Scotland’s mental health laws should be overhauled, review says
- News round-up 30 September
- Mental health patients are being transferred from Scotland to England and Wales
- New text service to help tradespeople with their mental health
- Professionals and users disagree about quality of mental health apps
- West London teenagers receive free app for mental health support
- News round-up 23 September
- Dementia amongst younger people is on the rise
- Hertfordshire Partnership adopts digital mental health assessment platform
- WHO launches perinatal mental health guide
- Black and South Asian people with dementia die younger, study finds
- News round-up 16 September
- Smartphones of limited use to people with dementia, study finds
- Doomscrolling linked to poor mental health outcomes, study finds
- Survey for Mental Health Tech Start-ups – preliminary findings
- Wellbeing app Koa Foundations is effective at supporting health care workers’ mental health, study finds
- News round-up 9 September
- Statement on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Virtual reality field trips improve wellbeing for end-of-life cancer patients
- How effective are digital support tools at helping people with mental health problems?
- Children more likely to disclose mental health issues to a robot, study shows
- Software company raises funding to improve care for people who have been sectioned
- News round-up 2 September
- How often do people make use of digital tools for mental health support?
- Companies urged to tackle stigma of mental illness
- GPs to prescribe cycling and walking to improve mental and physical health
- News round-up 26 August
- What draws people to use digital health tools for mental health support?
- Anxiety app Resony receives regulatory approval in UK
- Almost 38,000 vital follow-up mental health appointments missed
- A visit to a virtual museum can improve mental wellbeing in older people
- News round-up 19 August
- Mental health patients forced to travel far from home for treatment
- Number of young people referred for emergency mental health help reaches record high
- More than 20 children die in mental health units in three years
- NHS England cracks down on poor quality care from mental health service providers
- News round-up 12 August
- Campaign to improve young people’s mental health launched in London
- Pandemic leads to upsurge in use of digital mental health tools
- NHS recruits thousands more staff to children’s mental health workforce
- Digital tools: offering mental health support whenever, wherever you need it
- News round-up 4 August
- Smartphone apps the most popular digital tool for mental health support
- Social media pressure and Covid-19 pandemic behind a surge in mental health problems among young people
- Gaming isn’t harmful to mental health, study finds
- Crisis mental health patients in ‘short stay area’ for three weeks
- News round-up 29 July
- Mental health of people in North of England hit hardest by pandemic
- Mental health problems among young people are growing – and girls are particularly at risk
- ‘Outrageous’ waits for mental health patients in A&E
- News round-up 22 July
- New virtual reality project aims to support women experiencing pregnancy loss
- Mental health staff receive virtual reality training to practise empathy skills
- Lancashire trust launches new 24-hour mental health service
- Mental health and wellbeing plan should tackle racial inequality, say mental health specialists
- News round-up 15 July
- Researching unpaid carers in adult social care: how can we overcome the limitations?
- GP surgeries now providing specialist mental health support
- First patient safety commissioner appointed for England
- Increase of half a million in number of adults prescribed antidepressants
- Children’s mental health needs risk being ‘sidelined’, children’s services leader warns
- FCC’s Mental Health Exemplar
- News round-up 24 June
- ‘A privileged place to be’: improving quality of life for people with learning disabilities
- NHS Highland benefits from using surgical robots
- The key to virtual ward success? Start small
- Government appoints first women’s health tsar
- Search engine to help identify people with liver disease
- News round-up 17 June
- Landmark King’s project uses wearable tech to manage depression, MS and epilepsy
- New strategy to harness health and social care data will save lives, government says
- Cost of treating mental illness skyrocketed during Covid pandemic
- News round-up 9 June
- Patient with donated liver stored using new technique remains healthy one year on
- Integrated care systems must do more to engage with adult social care, report says
- Number of well patients unable to leave hospital continues to rise
- Take a more joined-up approach to primary care, Fuller review urges
- Sherwood Forest launches study on the benefits of at-home digital clinic
- Derriford Hospital’s A&E department adopts digital records
- Review launched into digital readiness of nurses and midwives
- One in seven trusts still using paper-based patient records
- News round-up 26 May
- Barnsley implements e-prescribing
- Kent and Medway adopt new imaging system for faster diagnoses
- Hospitals issue warning about Integrated Care Systems takeover
- The Greener Care Collaborative: Releasing Time to Care – how one council is using data to save travel time, improve care and create a greener environment
- News round-up 20 May
- Torbay and South Devon NHS adopt electronic maternity record
- New funding model proposed for young people’s mental health beds
- MPs launch inquiry to examine progress towards digitisation in NHS
- Better use of data can help tackle NHS backlogs
- Collaborate to innovate – how people working together can create better mental health services
- News round-up 13 May
- NHS Transformation Directorate releases new draft strategy for interoperability
- Most ICSs have still not appointed procurement lead
- Make more use of virtual wards, NHS England tells ICSs
- News round-up 5 May
- Smart watches for Parkinson’s patients in Plymouth
- Hertfordshire Partnership issues Green Plan to support digital transformation
- ‘Heavily funded’ NHS recruitment campaigns diverting staff from social care
- News round-up 22 April
- AI tools could improve dementia diagnosis – but there are challenges
- Keep VIPs safe both at home and away from home
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals to digitise patient records
- Watford General Hospital installs surgical robots
- New AI device could help save lives of people with bowel cancer
- News round-up 14 April
- Significant rise in GP phone appointments
- Two Welsh care homes adopt remote monitoring of patients
- Making social care accountable – a project to use open tendering and open performance
- Goldacre review recommends greater transparency in using health data for research
- News round-up 8 April
- Community of Practice members survey: the power of data in social care
- Wellbeing kiosks launched in Lincolnshire to help the digitally excluded
- NHS Blood and Transplant to use genotyping and analytics as part of new strategy
- Government cuts £330m from NHS budget
- News round-up 1 April
- Scotland rolls out remote monitoring services
- Leicester opens virtual ward for atrial fibrillation patients
- NHS adopts AI software to forecast A&E admissions
- News round-up 25 March
- NHS must double its efficiency savings, chancellor says
- Patients take part in AI mental health pilot
- Data from NHS Digital will help researchers understand the impact of Covid-19 on cancer patients
- News round-up 18 March
- North East London ICS offers patients access to a personal health record
- NHS adopts AI tool that can analyse heart MRIs in just 20 seconds
- Digitisation of maternity goes full steam ahead with 128 successful funding bids
- News round-up 11 March
- Sajid Javid supports call to scrap current GP contract
- New blueprint for validating AI tools published by NHS AI Lab
- Scottish hospital pilots AI for cervical cancer screening
- News round-up 4 March
- From cooking lasagne to meeting with friends: finding out what makes for quality of life amongst people with a learning disability
- NHS Borders launches virtual ward for Covid-19 patients
- Northern Ireland becomes first to adopt a unified medical imaging system
- Sajid Javid wants 90% of trusts to have an EPR by end of 2023
- News round-up 25 February
- A loving father failed by the care system
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ launch new app for recording Covid tests
- NHS Wales launch app to support people with long Covid
- Strategic intervention needed for care technology
- HEE publishes roadmap on AI use in the NHS
- News round-up 18 February
- A new report shines a spotlight on ethnic inequality in health care – we must all rise to the challenge of tackling it
- Government considers recycling PPE waste
- NHS puts out call for innovations in cancer care
- News round-up 11 February
- The government has declared a ‘war on cancer’ – but can we win it?
- New digital pharmacy system implemented in Wales
- Government unveils plan to tackle NHS backlog
- Government promises increased use of AI in tackling cancer
- News roundup 4 February
- The government has performed a U-turn on compulsory vaccinations for NHS staff – but is it the right decision?
- AI technology can save time during ultrasounds
- Health Education England launches evidence and knowledge portal
- Cancer patients in Manchester take part in wearable tech pilot
- News round-up 28 January
- NHS services are supposed to be free of charge – so why aren’t they?
- Former care minister warns that NHS is ‘destabilising’ care market
- Moorfields patient receives AI implant that enables her to see again
- Guest blog: Lord Clement-Jones on Data in the Health and Care Bill
- Government advertises women’s health ambassador role
- News round-up 21 January
- Are council leaders right to be worried about a ‘power grab’ by the NHS?
- BioNTech teams up with AI start-up to develop coronavirus early warning system
- Councillors fear power grab from NHS when ICSs come into force
- Northumbria Healthcare Trust launches home care services
- News round-up 14 January
- The NHS’s speedy adoption of digital technology is welcome – but we need to be cautious too
- Patients at risk from virtual wards, clinicians warn
- NHS app now has 22 million users
- Government urged to make progress on NHS digitisation
- News round-up 7 January
- Richard Meddings turned around the fortunes of TSB after an IT catastrophe. Can he do the same for the NHS?
- Government appoints senior banker as chair of NHS England
- A confident, independent life: how data analytics can give a voice to people in the care system
- Government makes it easier to recruit care workers from abroad
- News round-up 24 December
- Scotland updates its digital strategy
- New text-based support service launched for people with bowel cancer
- Embarrassing health condition? Talk to an AI chatbot
- Women’s health ambassador to be appointed in England
- Cheshire and Wirral implement electronic patient record
- Responding to the residential care sector – how tech can make a difference
- New position available – Policy and Research Officer
- News round-up 17 December
- Untapped potential: the power of technology to transform social care
- NHS England to introduce payment by results for elective work
- News round-up 10 December
- Cambridge University Hospitals Trust signs five-year AI deal to improve patient care
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ acquire a Versius robot for keyhole surgery
- Government urged to invest in digital technologies for residential care
- Scientists use video games to detect depression
- NHS to receive £700m in winter funding
- Barts Health to transform pathology services using digital technology
- Merging NHS Digital, NHSX and HEE into NHS England brings risks as well as benefits
- News round-up 3 December
- Digital technology has yet to reach its potential in adult social care, reviews find
- Government publishes its vision for adult social care
- UK collaborates with Ireland on digital innovation in health care
- Digital mental health service for young people launched
- Transfer to integrated care systems could be delayed by six months
- Integrated care systems will receive funding for ‘best ideas’ on reducing carbon footprint
- News round-up 26 November
- Technology is a force for good – but how can we avoid replicating human biases?
- NHSX and NHS Digital to merge with NHS England
- Review into NHS leadership will examine pay and incentives
- Vulnerable people attending A&E once a week
- New £2m funding for Covid-19 analytical research
- ICSs fail to meet targets for increased elective activity, despite £120m funding
- Sajid Javid orders review into ethnic bias of medical devices
- UK government unprepared for pandemic, report finds
- News round-up 19 November
- Surrey CCG launches service to enable patients to monitor blood pressure at home
- NHS has most 999 calls on record
- Sajid Javid describes split in NHS digital leadership as ‘odd’
- Anger greets government’s proposed changes to its social care reforms
- Covid negligence claims could reach £800m
- NHSX aims to speed up introduction of electronic patient records at seven trusts
- How can we reduce carbon emissions in health care – and can technology help?
- News round-up 12 November
- Technology can help the NHS reach net zero – here’s how
- NHS ambulance delays leaving patients stuck at GP surgeries for hours
- Compulsory vaccination may drive out 73,000 NHS staff
- Cera Care announces 15 digital hubs to care for patients in their own home
- Elective recovery plan due in a few weeks, says Sajid Javid
- More patient scans sent outside NHS for diagnosis
- Government invests £250m in digitising diagnostics care
- News round-up 5 November
- We urgently need to tackle climate change – and the NHS has an important part to play
- Royal Free to study AI tool for breast cancer screening
- Government pilots new app to nudge people into healthy habits
- NHS is looking for a ‘critical friend’ to hold organisation to account
- A radical rethink is required on digital health technologies, report argues
- Virtual reality can improve care for cancer patients
- King’s College Hospital using AI to diagnose stroke patients
- News round-up 29 October
- NHS Digital boss intends to end pointless duplication of data
- Spending review: some welcome news for the NHS – but where’s the workforce plan?
- Lack of data about charity sector leads to poorer policies
- Local authorities paying too little for home care, report finds
- Learning disability technology – putting users first
- Chancellor announces £6bn for NHS
- News round-up 22 October
- New AI funding to reduce racial inequality in health
- Ringfence funding for learning disability technology, government urged
- Third of NHS trusts putting patients at risk with out-of-date scanning equipment
- A merger of health and social care sounds attractive – but what does it mean in reality?
- New AI algorithm prescribes most effective treatment plan for liver cancer
- Patient care disrupted by poorly-maintained infrastructure
- News round-up 15 October
- Estimating the number of self-funders in residential care
- Covid response was one of ‘most important public health failures’ in UK history, say MPs
- Staff sickness in social care doubled during pandemic
- Government urged to increase funding for learning disability technologies
- Another leadership review in the NHS? Let’s focus on supporting leaders instead
- Sajid Javid plans to merge health and social care
- News round-up (8 October)
- NHSX to fund digital technology enabling people to receive care at home
- New body will tackle health inequalities
- End racial bias in medical devices, says health secretary
- Five Integrated care systems miss key targets for sharing patient data
- NHS could learn from poorer countries, HEE chief says
- Government launches ‘far-reaching’ review of health and social care leadership
- New digital tools essential to reduce overprescribing, review finds
- Let’s embrace the opportunities offered by AI
- News round-up (1 October)
- ‘A bit of a nightmare’: fuel shortages starting to affect vulnerable patients
- Virtual reality shows potential for management of pain – but challenges persist
- Patients need a simple way to opt out of data sharing, says NHSX chief exec
- Labour wants to improve patient safety after care scandals
- Oxford University sets up new institute for applying data science to health care
- New coalition formed to bring patient perspective to digital technology
- AI algorithm reduces false positives in breast ultrasound
- Integrated system for health and social care ‘essential’, Javid says
- News round-up (24 September)
- When it comes to patient safety and how people experience the health and care system, what part might digital technologies play in driving improvement?
- Government’s new 10-year plan for AI prioritises health
- AI may help detect deep vein thrombosis, study shows
- NHS hospitals use artificial intelligence to practise brain surgery
- Hospital admissions of vulnerable patients drops by 80% in pilot AI scheme
- New strategy launched to improve patient safety using digital technology
- Women in technology – the challenges and opportunities
- News round-up (17 September)
- Hampshire Hospitals to launch project to investigate use of AI in diagnosing prostate cancer
- News round-up (10 September)
- Tech and data get hearing at first evidence session of Health and Social Care Committee
- New £36 billion investment to support technology and innovative ways of working in health and social care
- WHO releases new compendium of innovative health technologies
- A step forward, but questions remain
- Climate anxiety affecting mental health
- Advanced data science and AI methods to identify new clusters of disease
- Collect and connect – share to strengthen data analytics in social care
- Ready, steady, go…Harnessing technology
- News round-up (2 September)
- Imperative digital technology vision is funded if it’s to succeed
- Genetic testing to be rolled out across England for rare type of diabetes
- VR technology aims to enable patients to forget they are in a scanner
- What Good Looks Like framework for Integrated Care Systems lists 7 measures for success
- Call to reduce air pollution following new study link to increased mental disorders
- News round-up (August 27)
- Cardiac patients allowed early discharge from hospital in Huma project
- NIHR and EPSRC co-funding research transforming care and health at home and enabling independence
- New deal to support integration of health and social care
- Prime Minister told now is the time for reshaping our approach to innovation in health systems
- Technology and the measurement of health to be a focus area of research
- IFS report suggests Sure Start programme helped reduce health inequalities
- Social Care Analytics Exemplar – Health Innovation Network South London: Advanced and Urgent Care Planning Accelerator
- News round-up (August 20)
- How tech is bringing down waiting lists – and could help ease workforce pressures
- UK Biobank abdominal MRI scans used in largest-ever study of its kind
- Recommendations hailed as “a timely call to action”
- Social Care Analytics Exemplar – Health Innovation Network South London: London Care Homes Digital Dashboard
- Social Care Analytics Exemplar – Supporting independent living for vulnerable people
- Campaign urges people to see their GP for life saving cancer checks
- DCMS report says data important to success and growth of private and 3rd sector organisations
- Patients approve chat-bot app in physiotherapy referrals pilot study
- News round-up (August 13)
- Digital revolution in social care to bring £127m of future improvements
- New app and website will help older people lead healthier lives
- AI brain scan for dementia being trialled at Addenbrooke’s Hospital
- NHS waiting lists could rise to 14 million in England
- Now is the time for action British Heart Foundation report tells government
- News round-up (August 6)
- Barts Health Trust to test if new imaging tool could be used by doctors
- Google aims to make it easier for innovators to improve health outcomes
- New opportunities for health tech start-ups
- Global leaders named as first Turing AI World-leading Researcher Fellows
- Origami app could help prevent spread of malaria
- New diversity targets for NHS tech and data staff
- NHS Digital improves transparency about how patient data is accessed
- BMA asks NHS England’s new CEO to prioritise workforce crisis
- News round-up (July 30)
- New report looks at priorities for mental health services and calls for greater use of digital technology to ease staff shortages
- Social care staff to be included in HEE workforce review for first time
- AI discovery could help supercharge discovery of new drugs to treat disease
- Women in Technology and Innovation
- Report recommends scaling up assistive technologies in adult social care services
- Mental Health Care: Tech and Transformation event summary
- News round-up (July 23)
- Government’s innovations strategy launched
- Building trust in how the NHS uses data is crucial says Healthwatch
- Future Fund: Breakthrough opens for funding applications from innovative R&D intensive companies
- Video Consulting (VC) rated highly among patients and clinicians
- Almost 100% of people test positive for antibodies after two COVID-19 vaccine doses
- Freedom day measures to alleviate pressure on NHS and social care services announced
- News round-up (July 16)
- Eight new hospitals to be built in England
- Mental health among the 7 priorities for PHE
- SFTC tech drives more efficient cryoEM imaging
- Machine learning tool accurately predicts best cancer treatments
- New Covid guidance clears up some confused messaging
- G20 new report on preparing for next pandemic
- Mind the gaps
- Government urged to invest in the development of new modes of mental health care through technology
- News round-up (July 9)
- Ombudsman’s report highlights recurrent failings in way X-rays and scans are reported
- Opportunities and challenges of AI use in health care
- New blueprint for the health & care sector
- Genome sequencing in newborns event
- Queen celebrates NHS 73rd Anniversary
- MHRA launch new delivery plan
- News round-up (July 2)
- Opportunities for new Health & Social Care Secretary
- Weight loss support for all who need it
- Sci Fi authors discuss their Fictions stories
- Getting inspired for story telling
- Sajid Javid takes over from Matt Hancock
- Different types of technology needed to transform mental health care
- Patients need convincing the new data strategy is safe to prevent them opting out
- News Roundup (June 25)
- New data strategy launched to improve patient care
- Getting Real: It’s Her Turn
- Digital ‘companion’ supports orthopaedic patients
- Understanding the keys to effective leadership
- News round-up (June 18)
- Leading innovation is not about the kit, it’s about the culture
- New paediatric hubs will bring together long COVID experts
- First pilots announced aligning NHS and private sector data
- Haptic vests could help tackle loneliness in care homes
- Fictions: It’s Her Turn
- Digital leaders gather to highlight how tech can help post-COVID
- NIHR sets out research plans to help NHS recover post-COVID
- News round-up (June 11)
- “A burnt-out workforce cannot deliver high quality care. We can’t continue as we are”
- Support for innovations to improve life for older people
- Survey seeks views on AI to inform new national strategy
- News round-up (June 4)
- Cash announced to fund new digital projects with sustainability at heart
- Getting Real: Stealthcare
- Event will explore ethical issues of the use of technology in health and social care
- News round-up (May 28)
- Call for government to invest in social care technology as it has done for health
- Older people more likely than young to trust health research
- Fictions series author chosen for Best Science Fiction Anthology
- News round-up (May 21)
- How a focus on workforce wellbeing is boosting retention
- Fictions: Stealthcare
- Technology will speed up move from acute to community healthcare says global survey
- News round-up (May 13)
- Guest blog: Allison Roche on digital trade and privacy protections for UK citizens health data
- Queen’s Speech 2021
- We must integrate health and social care: Registration of care staff is a step on that road
- News round-up (May 6)
- Innovate UK to promote closer links between research and industry
- Report urges action to halt social care decline
- Getting Real: CareFree
- How 3D models are transforming heart care
- We need clear action now to enable social care to unleash technology’s potential
- News round-up (30 April)
- Fictions series is sparking debate about future care scenarios
- Event to focus on promoting the use of technology in social care
- News round-up (23 April)
- Poor data led to failures in support for individuals shielding due to COVID
- Guest blog: Ruth Bergan on the Impact of Trade Deals on the NHS, Data and Value Capture
- We must fix our broken care system so families don’t suffer like mine
- Fictions: CareFree
- Short-term approach is holding back tech and innovation in social care
- Forcing staff to have a COVID jab could prove counterproductive
- News round-up (16 April)
- New technology enables A&E patients to check waiting times
- Public want more transparency over health and care data
- News round-up (9 April)
- MedTech companies invited to apply to transformation fund
- Business and research join forces to focus on innovation
- Developing data analytics to improve how social care is monitored and understood for those with the worst outcomes
- COVID-19 is raising new barriers to women’s equality at work
- Researchers create ‘digital twin’ to monitor underground farm
- News round-up (2 April)
- ‘Dragon’s Den’ challenge for firms to help support domiciliary care
- Guest blog: Lord Clement-Jones on Trustworthy Trade and Healthcare Data
- Getting Real: Don’t Push the Blame on Me
- Fundamental change needed to attract more women entrepreneurs
- Focus on remote monitoring and analytics
- News round-up (26 March)
- NHS Digital report highlights social care ‘data gap’
- Concerns raised over impact of digital trade deals on healthcare
- Review aims to reduce R&D bureaucracy
- News round-up (19 March)
- Hancock calls for ‘big thinking’ on technology transforming care
- “The UK must think globally on building back momentum post-pandemic”
- New strategy will ‘secure UK’s place as global AI leader’
- Data through to hearts and minds: Careforce – releasing time to care
- Fictions: Don’t Push the Blame On Me
- Call for new approach to encourage diversity among health entrepreneurs
- Remote monitoring scheme rolled out for patients at risk of COVID
- News round-up (12 March)
- We must all do more to challenge the barriers holding back women
- Colon capsule cameras enable COVID-secure cancer checks
- Director of Policy and Strategy set to leave post at the end of March
- Tech companies must do more to keep vulnerable people in mind
- Older people “left behind” in COVID-19 digital revolution says Age UK
- FCC highlights concern over lack of women in health enterprises
- Health innovation collaborations must be more transparent and diverse if they are to become drivers of post-Brexit economic growth
- FCC trustee among top female entrepreneurs to win government backing
- News round-up (5 March)
- “A disappointing budget for social care, but the ambition for technology is welcome”
- MPs launch inquiry into long-term funding of adult social care
- Budget cash for tech and innovation but no word on social care
- New digital referral system will help cut eyecare waiting lists
- News round-up (26 February)
- The true innovators behind health tech start-ups are able to think beyond the tech
- NHSX unveils new criteria to ensure health tech meets standards
- Getting Real: George
- Let’s use technology to support people’s dreams as well as the vulnerable
- New research agency to support ‘high risk, high reward’ science
- Future Care Capital fiction shortlisted for national award
- News round-up (19 February)
- Oncology research experts launch joint effort to accelerate innovation
- Co-ordinated investment in tech for care at home could ‘transform lives’
- Government urged to invest in the digitisation of social care services
- Fictions: George
- New £10million centre to promote greener investment decisions
- Home care technology event aims to highlight best practice
- News round-up (12 February)
- Report highlights lack of communication with people shielding
- Is it brave, or risky, to announce an NHS reorganisation in the midst of a pandemic?
- Global conference hears how health sector is underusing AI
- AI enables smart phones to test for early kidney disease
- Social Care: Estimating the size of the self-funding population
- News round-up (5 February)
- Help us identify how many are funding their own social care
- New Welsh Special Health Authority urged to promote digital inclusion
- New roadmap for speeding up digitisation of health and care
- CQC says COVID has been ‘catalyst for change’ in emergency care
- Avoiding isolation in care homes
- Action needed to stop COVID widening health inequalities
- News round-up (29 January)
- We must not forget those everyday heroes, the unpaid carers
- Existing drug could be used to target aggressive breast cancer
- New report highlights need to build public trust in tech innovation
- Getting Real: When I Visit the Palace
- Harmonising global health technology regulation is ‘mission critical’ MPs told
- Leading from the front supporting staff facing burnout
- News round-up (22 January)
- Government urged to focus on improving health in old age
- NHSx blog – Understanding the value of healthcare data
- Fictions: When I Visit the Palace
- New team will steer drive to make UK a global digital leader
- Survey will map use of AI in healthcare
- New funding aims to speed up roll-out of NHS e-rostering
- AI initiative at forefront of efforts to treat coronavirus patients
- News round-up (15 January)
- New bill will ‘bring mental health laws into the 21st century’
- Charities demand support for thousands still shielding almost a year into pandemic
- New scheme aims to improve medical device safety across the NHS
- MPs call for openness on government response to COVID pandemic
- Spector offers upbeat assessment of COVID prospects
- News round-up (8 January)
- Government names science facilities to benefit from extra R&D cash
- We all have a part to play in making 2021 a happy new year
- Make diversity and inclusion a priority says new AI Roadmap
- Commission urges action to ensure technology benefits workers
- ‘Innovation passport’ will help get new treatments to patients faster
- Wishing you a healthy and peaceful Christmas and New Year
- News round-up (18 December)
- Getting Real: Genetics research, genomics and gene-tech
- Launch of new Digital Health All-Party Parliamentary Group
- NAO report flags up concern over flu and COVID vaccination staffing “bottleneck”
- Technology innovation has transformed care in the pandemic and shift in culture is lasting legacy
- Fictions: Genomancer
- New funding for research into long-term impact of COVID-19
- Science network sets out vision for improving patient safety
- Sustainability and affordability are key issues for social care in 5G rollout
- New FCC Community of Practice aims to improve social care data and use it to transform lives
- News round-up (11 December)
- Tech sector must tackle lack of diversity to continue to thrive
- ‘Green field’ thinking needed on how 5G can support fairer health and social care provision in rural areas
- Guest blog: Lord Clement-Jones on protecting and valuing our healthcare data
- News round-up (4 December)
- NICE wants more data before recommending heart arrhythmias device
- Covid pandemic throws spotlight on “digitally excluded” rural UK
- New report urges action to avoid “entrenched bias” in algorithms
- New Fellowships aim to boost UK’s standing as a world leader in AI
- News round-up (27 November)
- Treasury Spending Review 2020: it ended in tiers
- R&D cash pledge is “great opportunity”
- Getting Real: Gambling technology, addiction and mental health
- Video gamers are helping scientists learn more about COVID-19
- Support for new start-ups in data driven health
- Webinar hears how the success of the COVID-19 vaccine hinges on building trust
- Smart testing and ‘people power’ – as well as vaccination – can get us out of this pandemic sooner
- News round-up (20 November)
- Fictions: Vigorish
- Panel highlights need to restore trust in public health messaging on COVID
- COVID symptom study launches programme for schools
- COVID-19 prompts digital revolution in social care
- News round-up (13 November)
- Call for more awareness of the massive potential of haptics technology
- Study of two common falls prevention schemes finds they don’t work
- PM praises life science companies for COVID effort
- Primary care “all hands to the pump” for COVID vaccination programme
- Survey aims to gauge digital inclusion in health and social care
- Use of haptics in healthcare set to grow
- Facebook, Twitter and Google agree to tackle vaccine disinformation
- Getting public health communication right: lessons and reflections from the 1st wave
- News round-up (6 November)
- New smartphone app could transform woundcare
- AI in Healthcare Awards aim to boost innovation
- Young carers may benefit from new digital support tool
- Warwick pioneers research into new possibilities for 5G
- COVID Conversations: Lessons and insights about communicating public health
- Public health messaging needs to be sharper for COVID-19 second wave
- 999 operators to get fast access to medical data
- AI identifies COVID-19 using recording of a patient’s cough
- Social care staff told ‘technology can be just as good as face-to-face’
- News round-up (30 October)
- Use technology to cut COVID-19 transmission in hospitals says HSIB
- Long Read: Perspectives on Regulating and Legislating Software Innovation post-Brexit
- New NHS criteria for digital health tools
- Rethink needed over adult social care tech policy
- News round-up (23 October)
- CQC slams care of people with learning disabilities and autism
- Government risks confusing public with COVID three-tier system
- COVID Conversations study: Explore vital lessons for public health communication
- Boost for NHS digital transformation pioneers
- MPs committee calls for £7bn social care cash lifeline
- Getting Real: Disease Tourism
- Fictions: Infectious
- ‘Droneways in the sky’ to ferry COVID tests
- Awards recognise healthcare innovation
- Future Care Chats with Sally Warren
- Social care needs better data and an identity
- News round-up (16 October)
- New report calls for more support for those affected by ‘long COVID’
- State of AI report flags up breakthroughs but also raises concerns
- Spotlight on health and social care digital innovation
- Effect of isolation on marginalised groups
- Guest Blog: Lord Freyberg on the social and economic potential of healthcare data
- News round-up (12 October)
- Social Care Data Finder: October update
- Covid is speeding up innovation in care but lessons need to be learned fast
- Future Care Chats with Jon Siddall & Guy Boersma
- Sad, anxious, lonely – how the pandemic got us talking about mental health
- Social media reveals challenges on the frontline
- Getting Real: Personalised medicine, how personal is too personal?
- In the media: FCC’s Communicating Public Health study featured in WIRED
- Learning which public health messages worked is vital ahead of a second wave
- Fictions: Life’s Lottery
- New study reveals trends in online conversations about COVID-19
- Social Care Data Finder: August update
- Why we need to listen to carers now and post-COVID
- Getting Real: Artificial Wombs
- 4 books for the summer
- Fictions: All I Asked For
- Social Care Futures
- Guest Blog: Why we’re excited about fostering grassroots leadership in social care
- Getting Real: Hello, Goodbye – VR in end of life care
- Fictions: Goodbye
- Social Care Data Finder: July update
- In the media: FCC’s polling with Ipsos MORI
- Fictions: Our year-long thought experiment
- New Polling – Public not clear about Government advice on socialising, work and travel
- CDEI AI Barometer – Health and Social Care
- Waking up to change
- Taryn Kershaw – #Weeknotes
- NCIMI Voices Podcast
- In the media: FCC’s research on residential care homes in The Times
- Future Care Chats with Andrew Whelan & Irene Gray
- Social Care Data Finder – discovering the data that’s available at a local level
- Unforgotten: the people, lost and found, in receipt of social care
- Covid-19: lessons from the Spanish Flu
- Covid-19: lessons from the Great Depression
- Research and Commercial Use of Healthcare Data in Uncertain Times
- Fixing social care
- Future Care Chats with Dave Dawes
- Future Care Chats with Annemarie Naylor MBE
- Face masks – to wear or not to wear?
- What would Beveridge do?
- What’s it like to volunteer at FCC?
- Introducing our new website
- Dave Milne – #Weeknotes
- FCC’s response to COVID-19
- Sue Wixley – #Weeknotes
- Taryn Kershaw – #Weeknotes
- Dr. Josefine Magnusson – #Weeknotes
- City AM: How to unleash the potential of the health data revolution
- The Marmot Review, longevity and a call to action
- Greg Allen – #Weeknotes
- The NHS, AI and Our Data – BBC Radio 4’s Analysis
- Annemarie Naylor – #Weeknotes
- Coronavirus: the impact on UK health & social care
- FCC appointed to work with National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI)
- The Government must be bold and brave in 2020 – it’s time for meaningful health and care reform
- General Election 2019 – FCC Directors
- FCC calls for a Digital Duty of Care to help shore up fragile care provision
- FCC responds to Labour’s announcement on introducing free personal care
- What could converged health and social care mean for all of us?
- Managing Partner of FCC’s Innovation Fund to step down
- Twin sisters reunited: How can we re-imagine health and social care for the future
- A Forgotten Army: Coping as a Carer
- Unpaid carers are the backbone of our society
- New research highlights multiple impacts borne by unpaid carers
- Government action is urgently required to ensure everyone benefits from innovation driven by the use of health and care data
- All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity and Future Care Capital
- New Trustee Appointments
- If we bridge the urban and rural tech divide, we can help ageing communities to thrive
- What could a no-deal Brexit mean for health and social care?
- UK-wide unpaid carers research project announced
- The NHS long-term plan is a welcome start, but significant challenges remain
- Response to the Prime Minister’s comments on Marr about the NHS ten-year plan
- Fit-for-purpose adult social care provision is achievable if we embrace a new positive vision
- Budget 2018
- Budget 2018: The only certainty is continued uncertainty
- CEO comment on the Care Quality Commission’s State of Care annual assessment
- Green Paper must break away from the outdated adult social care model and act to address local challenges
- Where is the Green Paper? We need a new data-driven adult social care model
- We need an urgent national debate and action on healthcare data
- FCC makes inaugural investment in Healthera
- Harness the value of NHS data as part of plans to deliver long-term sustainability
- Carers wellbeing must be a priority
- Redefining the future of health and care provision
- A cure for Dementia must remain a priority
- Are the Government’s guiding principles for better social care a step in the right direction?
- NHS Winter pressures point to a far wider problem
- New Chief Executive appointed
- Enabling Data Philanthropy for Health and Care
- Data Protection Bill – health and care data is a national asset and must be safeguarded for public benefit
- A Royal Commission to tackle long-term health
- Driving equality: unlocking the full potential of automated vehicles
- A hypothecated tax for the NHS and adult social care?
- Care. Missing. Inaction.
- Changing the debate and building momentum towards a new vision for future health and care
- Mind the Care Gap Campaign: We need to deliver a new long-term vision for health and care
- Mind the Care Gap Campaign: Community health and care provision that is ready and able to meet demand
- Mind the Care Gap Campaign: We need a fresh approach to address health and care needs in our communities
- Mind the Care Gap campaign: A renewed vision for England’s care force
- Mind the Care Gap: Building a care force ready to meet demand
- Mind the Care Gap: Friendship and a greater connection with others is the key to tackling isolation and loneliness in later life
- Mind the Care Gap: The frontline of health and care
- Mind the Care Gap Launch – it’s time to end the care deficit
- Cabinet reshuffle: New Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
- How the Government responds to an ageing society will make or break the new industrial strategy
- Greater recognition and support needed for carers in our society
- Budget misses opportunity to address social care challenges
- Green Paper on social care moved to Summer 2018
- Supporting Self Care Week 2017
- Delayed access to services should trigger frank debate about future health and care provision
- Looking after Mum and Dad? Preparing for an Ageing Society
- Health and care at “full stretch” says independent regulator
- Health and Care Data Donor Bank is key talking point at Health Service Journal roundtable
- Securing the future: public attitudes toward planning and preparing for later life
- Majority of the public support income tax rises to increase funding available for adult social care, UK-wide poll finds
- Championing community-led health and care solutions
- Health data fears over post-Brexit trade negotiations
- Planning to care
- Focus on skills to deliver sustainable social care in the future
- Future Care Capital responds to latest monthly delayed transfers of care data
- Care home report calls for action to get the basics right on standards
- Building a health and care data advantage
- Intelligent Sharing: Unleashing the potential of data to transform health and care
- England’s nursing homes failing on safety and quality, state of care report claims
- Why caring for carers is important
- New nationwide support for carers is needed now
- A new approach to help innovate and manage health and care
- The power of crowdsourcing
- New crowdsourcing platform launched
- General Election 2017: Time to renew health and care policy
- World Health Day provides an important focus on depression
- Select committee report calls for rethink on adult social care
- Technology Futures for Health and Care
- Spring Budget 2017
- Response to home carer abuse allegations
- Launch of Future Care Capital
- Meeting the future health and care challenge
Research
- The Potential of Extended Reality (XR) in Healthcare Education
- User Insights into Digital Mental Health Tools
- Care Tech Sector Analysis
- Residential Care Tech Landscape Review
- Learning Disability Tech Landscape Review
- Mental Health Tech Landscape Review
- Developing a Value Framework for Medical Imaging Data
- Enterprise in Health
- Care Tech Landscape Review
- Communicating Public Health: Discussions about mental and physical health among social media users during the pandemic
- Communicating Public Health: Discussions about and among health and social care professionals
- Communicating Public Health: Performance of public health messages and the impact of emerging issues
- Communicating Public Health: Method review and overview of key announcements
- Social Care Data Finder
- Research and Commercial Use of Healthcare Data
- Analysing local authority spend on residential social care provision for adults
- Data That Cares
- A Forgotten Army: Coping as a Carer
- Auditing Demand for Health and Care Data: In Search of Radical Transparency
- Taking Next Steps to Harness the Value of Health and Care Data
- Facilitating Care Insight to Develop Caring Economies
- Securing the Future: planning health and care for every generation
- Intelligent Sharing: Unleashing the potential of health and care data
Policy
- National Data Strategy – FCC and NCF joint response
- Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property
- Parliamentary Briefing: Trade Bill
- Parliamentary Briefing: Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
- Readying the NHS and social care for the COVID-19 peak
- Manufacturing the future: could healthcare data help rebalance the UK’s economy?
- General Election 2019 – Policy positions
- APPG for Longevity: Healthy life expectancy (HLE+5) consultation response
- Submission to House of Commons Public Accounts Committee inquiry: Challenges in using data across Government
- Briefing for House of Lords debate on protecting the NHS in future trade deals
- National Data Guardian: Response to consultation on priorities
- APPG on Rural Health and Social Care inquiry response
- Briefing for House of Lords healthcare data debate
- Submission to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee (Inquiry on long-term funding of adult social care)
- Draft Health and Care Workforce Strategy Consultation
- Submission to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee (Inquiry on support for carers)
- Building trust whilst safeguarding individuals
- General Election 2017
- 2030 Vision
Projects
- The Potential of Extended Reality (XR) in Healthcare Education
- Health and social care workforce: Wellbeing, integration and sustainability
- Mental Health Exemplar
- Climate, Health and Care
- Technology Landscape Reviews
- Helping through haptics: Innovation pilots in care homes
- Getting Real series
- The Infodemic and COVID-19
- Spotlight on Innovation
- A Community of Practice for social care analytics
- Future Care Chats
- COVID Conversations: Communicating Public Health research
- Fictions: Health and Care Re-Imagined
- Care Labs
- Strengthening social care analytics
- Medical imaging: our work with the National Consortium for Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI)
Events
- 14 May 2024 – The King’s Fund: Integrated care summit
- 6 December 2023 – Westminster Health Forum: Next steps for improving mental health services and prevention in England
- 11-12 October 2023 – The King’s Fund: Digital Health and Care Congress
- 18 May 2023 – Health and Social Care Workforce: Wellbeing, Integration and Sustainability
- 29 November 2022 – Westminster Health Forum: Next steps for mental health in England and priorities for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan
- 1 November 2022 – Community of Practice: Strengthening Social Care Analytics
- 20 October 2022 – Westminster Health Forum policy conference: Next steps for procurement in the NHS
- 11 October 2022 – The King’s Fund: Digital Health and Care Congress
- 22 June 2022 – The Personal Outcomes Scale: helping to measure quality of life
- 24 February 2022 – Care Tech: Sector Analysis
- 8 March 2022 – Adult Social Care Technology Review
- 14 December 2021 – Residential Care: Tech and Transformation
- 10 November 2021 – Health, Tech and Climate: COP26 Fringe
- 20 October 2021 – Learning Disability Care: Tech and Transformation
- 2 September 2021 – Strengths and opportunities: Where next for social care analytics?
- 15 September 2021 – Women In Technology and Innovation
- 20 July 2021 – Mental Health Care: Tech and Transformation
- 30 June 2021 – Fictions: Health and Care Re-Imagined
- 25 May 2021 – Adult Social Care Technology: The Future of Home Monitoring
- 23 March 2021 – Global Britain: The Implications for Health and Care
- 16 March 2021 – National Voices 2021 Conference
- 11 March 2021 – Enterprise in Health: Who are the Innovators?
- 24 February 2021 – NDR webinar series: Social Care and the National Data Resource Programme
- 23 February 2021 – Social Care: Technology and Transformation
- 9 December 2020 – Community of Practice for social care analytics launch event
- 3 December 2020 – Using data to improve social care
- 7 December 2020 – Connected Care: Enabling rural care through 5G and tech infrastructure
- 10 December 2020 – TechUK Digital Ethics Summit
- 16 November 2020 – Getting Public Health Communication Right Webinar
- 2 November 2020 – COVID Conversations Webinar
- 29 July 2020 – Claiming the data building block for the digital commons: RightsCon virtual session
- 18 June 2020 – CDEI AI Barometer virtual launch event
- 19 February 2020 – OneHealthTech London Talk: The Sovereign Health Fund
- 10 June 2020 – CogX2020: Health Stage (Day 3)
- 9 & 15 June 2020 – Strengthening social care analytics post-COVID-19
- 17 June 2020 – Data, the Global South and the NHS: risks from new digital trade rules
- 11 May 2020 – Fixing adult social care
- 22 October 2020 – Care Labs
- 26 February 2020 – Making NHS data work for everyone: The Guardian and Reform
- 12 February 2020 – The Health of the Nation: Launch of the National Strategy
- 22 November 2019 – Future Spaces Foundation: Kinship in the City report launch
- 4 July 2019 – CLGdotTV: What now for social care? Will the Green Paper ever arrive?
- 23 & 30 September 2019 – Political Party Conferences 2019
- 17 June 2019 – Launch of ‘A Forgotten Army: Coping as a Carer’
- 5 June 2019 – Reform Health Conference: Unlocking the promise of digital health
- 12 March 2019 – Caring Talks: Social Care, The Next Generation