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Health and Social Care News

AI model trained on NHS data predicts future health risks

Independent - 07-May-2025

Foresight AI enables early predictions and personalized prevention strategies

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AI models for hospital care fail to detect critical conditions

Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) - 11-Mar-2025

New testing methods showed that AI struggles with real-world medical emergencies

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End-of-life care in the UK is failing patients, report warns

The Guardian - 05-Feb-2025

Campaigners call for more hospice and home care funding to reduce hospital deaths

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AI sensors in homes help vulnerable people stay safe and independent

BBC - 03-Feb-2025

Families feel reassured and find the system helpful for monitoring loved ones

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Health-care costs are no longer taking over the economy. But why?

The Economist - 26-Oct-2023

Factors include productivity gains, technology, and slower economy growth

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Major illnesses will affect over nine million people in England by 2040

BBC - 25-Jul-2023

Large increases in people with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and diabetes

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Minimally invasive robotic surgery challenges the gold standard open surgery

SciTechDaily - 13-Jun-2022

Bladder cancer patients show reduced hospital stay by 20% post procedure

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Non-surgical medical robots for help by ABB

FierceBiotech - 10-Oct-2019

Pipetting, sorting test tubes or preparing medicines by robots in near future

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Cancer survival rates improving, but UK performing poorly

BBC - 12-Sep-2019

If there is an election soon, then maybe consider the parties' health policies as well as Brexit

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