blog

UpToDate Expert AI adds a conversational AI layer over UpToDate's curated content, but access is mostly institutional and the recommendations are internationally authored rather th...

National guidance sets the evidence-based standard; local guidelines govern how care is actually delivered in a Trust or ICB. When they differ, which do you follow? A practical gui...

A 2026 npj Antimicrobials and Resistance study found Ask Eolas produced zero antimicrobial prescribing errors in a simulation, versus six and eight in comparator groups. A clear, h...

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 over 120 inhaler device and drug combinations licensed in the UK and a major shift to AIR and MART therapy, inhaler prescribing is genuinely hard. How RightBreathe, the BNF an...

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...