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New standards released to ensure medical AI is safe and effective

Healthcare professionals can harness artificial intelligence safely and effectively by following a new set of patient and industry-agreed standards.
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New £1.4m AI funding aims to reduce racial health inequalities

The funding, from the NHSX AI Lab and Health Foundation, aims to ensure healthcare solutions don’t “exacerbate existing health inequalities”.
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Digital Health Unplugged: A chat with Simon Bolton

Host Andrea Downey spoke to the interim CEO of NHS Digital about his goals for the organisation, building back after
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Digital Health Unplugged: Diversity in digital leadership

The panel discuss the importance of diversity in leadership roles and how the Shuri Network has helped them in their
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NHS Digital pledges to increase staff diversity by 2025

NHS Digital employs around 3,500 people across England. It is aiming for 19% of its staff to be black, Asian
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Shuri Network issues call to action at Virtual Summer School 2021

As it celebrates its second birthday, the Shuri Network has issued a call of action to its allies to help
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BCS joins forces with Coding Black Females to improve diversity in tech

Fifty women from Coding Black Females will be offered a membership of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, each year
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Diversity and inclusion must be ‘at the core’ of NHSX and digital leadership

Speaking at Connect 2020 Sonia Patel said diversity had to be at the core of the service offered to patients
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Newham trial of contact-tracing app a ‘step in the right direction’

Shuri Network co-founder, Dr Shera Chok, said it was “not clear” why a trial of the app in an ethnically
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UKRI offers £5m for research into Covid-19 impact on BAME people

The funding is for ideas that address the vulnerability of BAME groups to Covid-19, or emerging social economic and cultural
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