Pregnant women and cancer patients put at risk due to sonographer shortages

Posted: 10 april 2026

Sonographers conduct ultrasound scans which are essential to pregnancy care and are also used in the diagnosis of cancer. Pregnant women are offered a scan when their baby is 12 weeks old and again when the baby is 20 weeks.…

Precision liver study recruits almost 1,000 people using NHS data

Posted: 09 april 2026

Almost 1,000 participants have been recruited into a liver disease study in less than a year using real-world NHS data.  It uses software to identify and stratify individuals using historic blood test data held in NHS systems. Read more here.