Your morning summary of digital health news, information and events you need to know if you want to be “in the know.”
👇 News
🤖 Shelford Group has launched the Shelford Surgical Training in Advanced Robotic Technology (START) program to deliver surgical robotics training across multiple platforms to trainees, starting with the North West, North East and East of England regions. The START program provides the opportunity for surgical students to develop their skills, knowledge and experience in robotic-assisted surgery (RAS), at an earlier stage in their careers around the world. Da Vinci from Intuitive, CMR Surgical Versius and Hugo from Medtronic RAS surgical systems.
💊 hello and Uber Eats have partnered to enable Healthera’s network of more than 1,700 pharmacies in the UK to offer delivery of over-the-counter medicines and health products through the Uber Eats platform. Through the partnership, customers will get access to a wide variety of products in the Health and Pharmacy category, with home delivery in 10 to 30 minutes by a Healthera partner pharmacy.
🏥 SanomeThe HealthTech company behind the AI-powered MEMORI clinical decision support tool that helps detect hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), has announced two major hospital partnerships to improve patient care. The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust have selected Sanome’s MEMORI platform.
🧠 Towards, a provider of accessible mental health services, has announced a strategic partnership with a UK-based digital healthcare provider. Medical care anywhere. DCA patients will now have the option to choose Towards to gain immediate access to therapy, whether in-person or online.
💰 tetraA UK HealthTech startup focused on helping NHS elective surgery teams schedule better using AI, has closed a £450,000 seed funding round. The company’s first pilot is in orthopedics at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
❓ Did you know that?
Open AI It is reportedly exploring the possibility of introducing consumer health tools, including a personal health assistant or health data aggregator.
Sources close to the company told Business Insider that the AI company is considering several opportunities as it moves into the healthcare sector, marking a step beyond AI infrastructure into industry-specific software.
Recent hires reflect the company’s ambitions. OpenAI named Nate Gross, co-founder of a public health technology company doximityto lead its healthcare strategy in June 2025. Two months later, it hired Ashley Alexander from Instagram as vice president of healthcare products.
📖 what we are reading
Shaukat Ali Khan, executive director of digital insights at NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, makes the case for responsible progress in the rollout of new technologies in an article on Technological reflections of 2025 and opportunities for humanity in 2026published by the UK Authority.
“Looking to the year 2026, the opportunities to use technology for humanity are immense.
“In healthcare, wearable devices and smart patches powered by AI will shift care from reactive treatment to proactive prevention, predicting cardiac events and chronic diseases before they occur,” he said.
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