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The NHS’s pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot — run across roughly 90 organisations and involving more than 30,000 staff — reports average time savings of 43 minutes per staff member per working day, with sponsors modelling that a full roll‑out could reclaim up to 400,000 staff hours per month and...

A landmark pilot deploying Microsoft’s AI assistant across 90 NHS organisations reports average time savings of 43 minutes per staff member per day, with official estimates projecting up to 400,000 hours saved every month if scaled — a figure presented by government and industry partners as...

A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across NHS organisations has produced headline numbers that are hard to ignore: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per day, and the trial sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 hours of staff time...

The NHS trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot has produced striking headline numbers: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per working day, a figure that, when extrapolated across the service, is being presented as the potential to free roughly 400,000 staff hours every month. The...

A major Microsoft 365 Copilot evaluation inside the NHS reports that AI assistance could reclaim substantial clinician and administrative time — an average reported saving of 43 minutes per employee per working day in the trial cohort, and a headline projection that, if rolled out across the...

Microsoft’s claim that a Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot “could save NHS staff 400,000 hours every month” captures a compelling headline—but the number is a projection built on self‑reported time savings, selective pilot conditions and modelling assumptions that deserve scrutiny. The NHS...

The quiet revolution unfolding within the National Health Service is more radical than any past phase of digital transformation. For decades, NHS staff have crafted ingenious workarounds—tinkering with spreadsheets, building Access databases, and quietly deploying web apps—to meet the evolving...

The NHS and local government agencies are facing an unprecedented surge in Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), as citizens become increasingly aware of their privacy rights under legislation such as the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For these public sector bodies, especially...

For the NHS, innovation has never been a mere buzzword. It is a survival imperative. As the UK’s National Health Service enters a new decade grappling with surging demand, workforce shortages, budget constraints, and rising expectations, digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI)...

Digital transformation isn’t confined to computer labs or tech giants’ boardrooms—it’s revolutionizing healthcare, too. The Lancashire and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment (SDE) is a case in point. By harnessing cutting-edge technologies and forging strategic partnerships, this initiative...

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As the latest of the six British-built Ebola treatment centres in west Africa admitted its first three patients this weekend, some of the volunteer NHS staff working there over Christmas said they felt insulted by a draconian ramping up of the protocols they have been told they will have to...

After the collapse of PIP, a breast implant manufacturer that used industrial standard silicon for the implants, not clinical standard, now the Harley Medical Group cries wolf. Whilst I think that every woman who had breast implants for medical reasons should be immediately dealt with on the...

December 10, 2010 Weird News: Bad lung beats none at all Britain’s National Health Service acknowledged in November that, because of a shortage of healthy lungs and other organs available for transplant, it was offering those on waiting lists the option of receiving them from former...