The latest variant of Covid-19, omicron, started to spread across the UK at a frightening rate. Prime minister Boris Johnson struggled to get minor restrictions in place to slow the spread, as the booster vaccination campaign ramped up, and the NHS went back to incident level 4 to prepare for a wave of hospitalisations.
In a quiet week for health tech, NHSX reported back on its latest AI skunkworks project: a bed management pilot with Kettering General Hospital. And we published our review of the year.
