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University College London Hospitals has shared a series of digital transformation plans and priorities in its five-year strategy to 2031, with plans to redesign care pathways with remote monitoring, digital tools to support care being delivered outside of hospitals, and to focus on information sharing via joined-up digital systems.

Our NHS trust region series for this edition, we take a deep dive into what’s happening with digital and data across the London region. We’ll explore digital strategies, plans, and priorities, pilots along with innovations, case studies, and insights from the sector.

Dorset County Hospital and Dorset HealthCare have updated on digital progress and priorities for 2026/27, highlighting ongoing work on EHR implementation, primary care integration, infrastructure improvements, and a target operating model. “Good progress” is being made on EHR implementation, with the trusts citing strong recruitment and alignment of system workstreams. Primary care integration is reportedly underway, and overall delivery is rated “on track”.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust board has highlighted digital in supporting its stroke recovery programme, recent EPR upgrades, progress with ambient voice technology, and a need for the trust to modernise systems going forward. The digital stroke recovery programme is in place as a result of a partnership with iCareiMove, the trust shares.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has published its quality account for 2025/26, outlining successes over the last 12 months including its EPR programme. “Significant progress” has been made over 2025/26 in delivering the trust’s digital programme in support of safer, more efficient, and more integrated care, University Hospitals Plymouth states, with the formal award of an EPR contract to Epic as part of the One Devon EPR programme.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has successfully achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6 accreditation, reportedly for its work on optimising and integrating its EPR. According to the HIMSS website, Stage 6 EMRAM is awarded for organisations leveraging health tech for advanced data exchange and interoperability for improved patient engagement, clinical efficiency, and departmental insights.

A total of £11.1 million in funding has been committed to the launch of a wearables and remote monitoring innovation cluster in Greater Manchester; a partnership between Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the NIHR Manchester Health Determinants Research Collaboration.

A dataset comprising close to 1 million images linked to patient clinical records has been published by Moorfields and UCL with hopes to support the development of AI tools and research on anterior segment conditions including cataracts. Moorfields states this type of eye condition is a leading cause of blindness, however less than ten percent of ophthalmic imaging datasets currently include them.

For our ICB region series for 2026, we take a deep dive into what’s happening with digital and data across the East of England region, sharing pilots and innovations, strategies, case studies, and insights from the sector.

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has started a six-week trial of ambient voice technology this week. The pilot is to run to 3 August 2026, with 40 clinicians taking part across a small number of areas including children and families, community health services, mental health services, and with some nursing colleagues. Patient consent will be sought and recorded prior to use, MPFT confirms, with clinicians to offer details on what is involved and how the tech works.