New analysis from NHS Shared Business Services says strengthening finance, workforce and operational systems will be essential if the NHS is to realise the benefits of major reform programmes and £10bn of digital investment.

A team at the University of Oxford has received support from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to develop and manufacture a new generation of personalised cancer vaccines using artificial intelligence and UK sovereign AI systems.

Digital governance is often treated as a bureaucratic layer within the NHS, yet it directly shapes patient safety. In maternity care especially, poorly designed or insufficiently assured systems can introduce hidden risks, making governance a critical clinical function rather than an administrative exercise, writes Misbah Mahmood, CXIO and Clinical Safety Officer and Bradford District Care Trust, Former digital midwife at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and long-standing K2/HHA customer and collaborator. 

Hydration underpins a range of physiological processes that influence cognition, function and wellbeing, yet it remains inconsistently addressed across care pathways. In the context of integrated care and prevention, it represents a simple but often overlooked opportunity to support resilience and reduce avoidable deterioration.

The NHS estate is one of the largest and most complex property portfolios in the world – yet for many trusts, the systems used to manage it are falling short. In this article, we examine why the digital maturity gap in estates and facilities can no longer be dismissed as an operational inconvenience, and what it will genuinely take to close it.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has completed a trust-wide medical workforce planning programme delivered with SARD, introducing new digital job planning processes and workforce data systems intended to improve oversight of clinical capacity, support service redesign, and inform long-term workforce planning across its hospital services.