Joe Talora

An acute trust has decided to end a 20-year-long partnership agreement with a local authority to deliver adult social care services as the model has become "inefficient and expensive".

A leading tech chief has said she faces an "impossible job" in trying to get primary and secondary care IT systems to be interoperable with one another.

Almost all trusts using the Epic electronic patient record system have resisted using the federated data platform, HSJ analysis has found.

An integrated care board cluster is planning to use AI to job-match staff as part of its plans to achieve 50 per cent cuts to running costs.

NHS England is restricting access to open source code after researchers found that the Mythos AI model could expose "pretty severe" vulnerabilities in commonly used software.

AI systems designed to reduce costs and improve outcomes through "workflow automation" have been included in an NHS procurement framework worth up to £900m.

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Three trusts have begun rolling out their electronic patient record systems months later than planned after NHS England forced them to delay.

Several trusts in the South West are being asked to restrict all non-essential spending due to their "challenging financial position".

The national patient data watchdog has said it will investigate how Palantir staff came to have access to identifiable patient data in the federated data platform, despite previous assurances that this would not be the case.