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UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has lauched a world-first metagenomics initiative to aid in the rapid detection of infectious diseases that could threaten the UK. The metagenomics Surveillance Collaboration and Analysis Programme (mSCAPE), which has been in development over the last year, is piloting the use of metagenomic data for public health surveillance and pathogen analysis. The programme is…
Ben Kemp
February 4, 2025
Kaye attends Responsible AI: Women & Healthcare Conference 2025 HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

Kaye attends Responsible AI: Women & Healthcare Conference 2025

Kaye attended the Responsible AI: Women in Healthcare Conference which was held at the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in London last week.  The meeting was chaired by Prof. Erika Denton, National Medical Director of Transformation at NHSE, and Dame Lesley Regan, Women’s Health Ambassador, and the agenda focussed on how AI could potentially help with some of the…
Ben Kemp
February 4, 2025
Media Monitoring: 23 – 29 January HighlightsHighlights Archive

Media Monitoring: 23 – 29 January

India, UK renew five-year partnership to strengthen health cooperation India and the United Kingdom have renewed their health and life sciences partnership, signing a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen collaboration in critical health sectors. The agreement was formalised at a ceremony in New Delhi on Thursday, attended by Union Health Minister JP Nadda, UK Secretary of State for…
Ben Kemp
January 28, 2025
Government review reveals under-digitisation of NHS services HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

Government review reveals under-digitisation of NHS services

The Government have released a state of digital government review, which revealed that despite the UK public sector spending £26 billion (£8 billion in the NHS) on digital resources, the NHS remains severely under-digitised. It found that 45% of NHS services still lack a digital pathway. According to the review, this lack of digitisation causes three main problems: duplication, causing…
Ben Kemp
January 28, 2025
Nine more hospitals will be joining its opt-out HIV testing programme HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

Nine more hospitals will be joining its opt-out HIV testing programme

An additional nine hospitals will be joining NHS England’s opt-out HIV testing programme as a result of government funding announced in November. This will bring the total number of hospitals funded to routinely test anyone who has their blood taken in their emergency department for HIV to 89. New hospitals set to benefit from funding are those in or near…
Ben Kemp
January 28, 2025
Media Monitoring: 16th – 22nd January   HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

Media Monitoring: 16th – 22nd January  

Genetic testing for Lynch Syndrome prevents cancers being missed Genetic testing to identify women with Lynch Syndrome is likely to need to increase dramatically to ensure that carriers are not missed, a new analysis has found. A study by The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and published in the Journal of Medical Genetics, has revealed that only a fraction of…
Ben Kemp
January 22, 2025
UKHSA release 2024 – 2025 business plan HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

UKHSA release 2024 – 2025 business plan

The UK Health Security Agency have released their business plan for the year ahead. This follows their strategic plan and remit to ministers, which have been announced in previous years. The plan outlines the agency’s key deliverables and activities to protect and improve the public’s health and reduce health inequalities. The organisation's aims for this year are as follows: delivering…
Ben Kemp
January 22, 2025
Government provides response to Covid Inquiry Module 1 recommendations HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

Government provides response to Covid Inquiry Module 1 recommendations

Last week, the Government provided a response to module 1 of the Covid Inquiry. Baroness Hallett published her report from the first module of the inquiry in July 2024. It concluded that the UK was not as prepared as it should have been for the pandemic. Years of underinvestment meant that pandemic planning was not a sufficient priority. In response,…
Ben Kemp
January 21, 2025
New NHS BRCA testing programme identifies hundreds with cancer risk HighlightsHighlights Archive

New NHS BRCA testing programme identifies hundreds with cancer risk

Hundreds of people with Jewish ancestry in England have been identified as being at increased risk of cancer and offered risk-reducing options, as part of a new NHS genetic testing programme. New data shows that over 25,000 free saliva test kits have now been requested and delivered as part of the NHS Jewish BRCA Testing Programme since its launch in January 2023.…
Ben Kemp
January 21, 2025
Media Monitoring: 9th – 15th January HighlightsHighlights ArchiveSustainability Programme Archive

Media Monitoring: 9th – 15th January

Dementia blood test diagnosis trial gets underway A trial to identify fast and accurate blood tests that can diagnose dementia comes at an "exciting" time in the treatment of the disease, according to a leading scientist. More than 3,800 people from 28 NHS memory clinics across the UK are being invited to sign up to the five-year Read-Out study, external…
Ben Kemp
January 14, 2025