Future workforce
How can NHS trusts identify skills gaps, address them, support digital transformation, and create sustainable workforces? A webinar hosted by St Vincent’s Consulting will lead a practical discussion of the issues, with a focus on the role of academies and apprenticeship programmes. ‘Analogue to digital’ is one of the three big shifts outlined in the [...]
Drawing on his experience as chief nurse at Health Education England and deputy chief nursing officer for England, Professor Mark Radford considers why NHS workforce planning needs greater long-term stability, alongside the intelligence to respond when circumstances change. There is a premise that workforce planning succeeds or fails according to the accuracy of its forecasts. [...]
By Kevin Monk, CEO and co-founder at SARD JV For many organisations, the conversation about AI still begins with tools. Which model are we using? How powerful is it? How quickly can it generate outputs? In reality, most people still experience AI through a chat interface asking questions, generating text, or solving small, discrete problems. [...]
Surgeon.AI has launched an AI-powered platform combining surgical education, career development and personalised learning for surgeons worldwide. Professor Shafi Ahmed, a surgeon and healthcare technology innovator, launched the platform to support surgeons from medical school and training through to consultant or attending level. Central to the platform is ELLA, the Education, Learning and Language Agent, [...]
Paul Sanders, President UK and Ireland at RLDatix, discusses how workforce management technology can help NHS organisations make better use of workforce capacity. For years, the NHS workforce debate has focused on supply: recruitment, retention and vacancies. Those issues remain critical, but they can overshadow a second challenge that is becoming increasingly important: how organisations [...]
A £13m programme will train healthcare professionals as clinician data scientists, combining clinical expertise with advanced data science skills. The PhD programme, called MEDATA, will provide training across a range of healthcare professions. The initiative aims to address a growing skills gap as health datasets become increasingly large and complex. Professor Marion [...]
RLDatix has launched an AI tool that increased NHS bank fill rates by up to 20 per cent in early pilots. Smart Match went live at The Connected Health and Care Summit 2026 as RLDatix expands its use of artificial intelligence in healthcare workforce management. The system automatically generates targeted shift notifications, including for urgent [...]
GSK plans job cuts as part of a £1.9bn cost-cutting programme funding £400m of UK life sciences investment over the next three years. As reported by The Guardian, the British drugmaker will move more than 1,000 scientists to a new research and development site on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It will close its R&D site [...]
By Kevin Monk, CEO and co-founder at SARD JV Picture a typical NHS trust on a Tuesday morning. The cardiologists are tracking their annual leave in a shared Excel file. The anaesthetists are using CLWRota for rostering and leave. They have used it for ten years and they know every feature so you couldn't prise [...]
By G2 Speech “AI reduces clinician burnout” has become one of the most common claims in healthcare technology. While there is truth in it, the statement is often oversimplified. Across healthcare systems in the UK, burnout is strongly associated with administrative burden. But that burden is rarely just about volume. It is more often the [...]
