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NHS England is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff by October 2026, after a 30,000-person trial reported an average 43 minutes of admin time saved per day. What was ...

Many Trusts are retiring the MicroGuide app and moving their antimicrobial guidelines to the Eolas Medical platform, with hard cutover dates. What is changing, how to find your Tru...

Every UK GP consultation runs on a stack of embedded software most people never name: EMIS or SystmOne underneath, with Ardens, OptimiseRx, RightBreathe, C the Signs and Eolas laye...

FDB OptimiseRx delivers patient-specific prescribing prompts in EMIS and SystmOne across 4,500 practices, and has helped the NHS save over £500m. But a prompt is not an instruction...

C the Signs is an AI cancer decision-support tool now used in around 1,400 GP practices, integrated with EMIS and SystmOne. NICE NG12 is the national suspected-cancer referral stan...

With more than 120 inhaler device-and-medicine combinations licensed in the UK and major changes around AIR and MART, inhaler prescribing is genuinely difficult. This guide shows h...

Ardens templates are used across most GP practices in England to standardise reviews, coding and QOF capture in EMIS and SystmOne. They are genuinely useful for reducing omissions,...

The 2026/27 GP contract shifts £292m to a practice-level scheme, makes same-day urgent access a binding obligation, expands ARRS to experienced GPs and reworks QOF, but it was impo...

UK specialty training competition ratios have risen sharply, and the numbers are widely misunderstood. What a competition ratio actually measures, how bad it has really got, why th...

In July 2026 NHS England set out a £10bn technology plan, headlined by an AI triage tool in the NHS App and a national rollout of AI notetaking. What was actually announced, what t...

UK medicine shortages are the most severe on record, with record-length Serious Shortage Protocols for Creon and HRT and growing gaps in everyday medicines. What is short and why, ...

Wherever you practise, a few dermatology resources stand out globally: DermNet for free evidence-based reference, VisualDx for visual decision support, and the specialist societies...