The NHS has an extraordinary opportunity in 2026. Unified data, decision intelligence, and strong workforce capability can ...

U.K.-based healthcare tech provider DXS International said it discovered and contained a data breach on Sunday. A ransomware ...

Care.data is an NHS England project to store all GP patient data in a central database housed by the Health and Social Care Information Center (HSCIC). There it was to be amalgamated with the HES data ...

The UK stands at the cusp of a new era of medical breakthroughs, fuelled by the increased use of data and the recent plans to open NHS data reserves to improve the development and creation of ...

Data saves lives. Since 1948, the NHS has collected detailed records and data, on tens of millions of patients, from the vast population of the UK. GP records – as just one example – contain detailed ...

It's been a difficult few weeks for the NHS's digital ambitions. On 3 June a ransomware cyber attack on pathology test provider Synnovis led to thousands of cancelled appointments and procedures and a ...

The number of flu patients in hospital in England has risen by 18%, following a 55% increase the week before. Other UK-wide ...

How are you? Bit of a cold? Perhaps something worse? Silicon Valley wants to know – big tech is coming for our health data. But while we're generally happy with academic or publicly funded research ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr James Somauroo is the CEO of SomX & covers healthcare innovation A new report by consulting firm EY suggests that if the U.K.

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...

The Government released the latest incarnation of its strategy to enable wider sharing of NHS data that it claims will "drive innovation and deliver cutting-edge patient care". The policy paper, Data ...

Chances are you'll have recently received a forwarded, panicked WhatsApp message from a friend or spotted a tweet about the 'government's NHS data grab' – but you may not know exactly what it's all ...