The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced an £11m pilot project, aiming to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help radiologists find breast cancer quicker.

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has launched the world's largest prospective trial of using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess routine mammogram screenings. Nearly 700 000 women who have ...

Analysis by NHS England South East has revealed in 2024, there were more than 85,000 admissions to virtual wards across the region - an 18 per cent increase from 2023. Since the Virtual Ward Programme ...

Pressure on those pharmacies that remain will only grow more severe unless urgent action is taken to reverse cuts to pharmacy ...

Two women had abortions after an NHS trust mistakenly told them their babies had serious conditions, the BBC has learned.

A new book looks at the 'under the radar' role of Irish nurses in NHS hospitals the length and breadth of Britain ...

Basingstoke MP Luke Murphy hosted a public consultation event, bringing together local residents and key NHS stakeholders to discuss the future of the healthcare system. The event, held at Basingstoke ...

Casgevy uses CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to modify a patient’s haematopoietic stem cells. Credit: Manjurul via Getty Images. The CRISPR-based gene therapy Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) ...

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NHS and council officials will be told to focus ... will also cut back on paperwork because there will be less reporting of data. Previous versions of the Better Care Fund policy framework have ...

Credit: georgeclerk via Getty Images. The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products ... and the National Health Service (NHS), aims to streamline collaboration between medicine developers and the ...