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The £42m secured by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) follows a 22-month campaign and forms part of a £140m national package announced on 18 October to expand urgent care capacity before winter. The funding represents more than a capital award. It reflects operational improvements under Fiona Wheeler’s leadership, while raising the question of whether those gains can be sustained. Wheeler brings direct operational experience to the role, h

Somewhere between bus stops, a woman in her thirties with asthma scrolls past a short video about flu. She taps through to the NHS App, checks her eligibility and books a slot at a pharmacy two streets from her home. The whole exchange takes under five minutes. A decade ago, the same intention would have meant a phone call during surgery hours and a wait on hold. That reduction in friction is the substance of the government's winter flu campaign, and it deserves more attentio

Patients treated on trolleys in corridors and in ambulances parked outside emergency departments have become the visual shorthand for an NHS under strain. Into that setting arrives the government's evidence to the doctors' pay review body, which proposes a 2.4 per cent uplift for 2027/28. The British Medical Association calls it a pay cut and unions have called it derisory. Whatever one makes of the language, the number has landed at a moment when the service can least afford

A child with a drip stand sits beside a trolley in a corridor lit by strip lighting. A parent holds a coat and a phone. Porters and nurses pass at speed, and every few minutes someone apologises. Most people who work in emergency care have seen this scene, and until now it has been treated as an unfortunate feature of a hard month. The Health Secretary has now said that no child should be treated in a corridor, and has asked NHS England to draw up urgent standards and a plan

Somewhere in an integrated care board headquarters this autumn, a small emergency planning team is rehearsing winter surge arrangements for a population of more than a million people. The team is smaller than it was a year ago. Colleagues who once shared the load have taken redundancy or moved on. The plans still need sign-off, because the government has now confirmed that responsibility for emergency preparedness will stay with the board for at least another year. That confi

The NHS Federated Data Platform has crossed that threshold, yet the question occupying Whitehall is not how to extract more value from it but whether its foundations will hold.

Major London hospital trust launches operational pilot alongside emergency department expansion and rising doctor satisfaction scores

The government has backed the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare in full, and the MHRA will begin testing continuous safety surveillance of AI-enabled devices

An £80m pilot of nine diagnostic tools aims to lift timely assessment from 60% to 92%, but its results will depend on workforce, data systems and treatment funding.

On a winter afternoon in almost any acute trust, a bed manager reads down a list of patients who are medically fit to leave. Most are elderly. Each is waiting for a care package, a placement or a home adaptation that nobody has yet arranged. Outside, an ambulance queue lengthens because the emergency department has nowhere to send its next admission. The bed manager knows the cause without consulting a dashboard. It sits in a social care system that the NHS cannot commission,

A weight management programme that reached 187% of its target points to a workable model for prevention, though the wider regional data shows how uneven delivery remains.

The trial assessed the performance of an innovative cancer screening method among a large participant group.

A transatlantic tariff deal is quietly reshaping how much the NHS pays for medicine, and Parliament is being asked to take that on trust

NICE Approves Enhertu for NHS Use in England, Expanding Access to Breast Cancer Drug

Cooper Tells NHS Boards Safeguarding "Must Be Everyone's Priority" After Thirlwall Report

The Cost of Compromise: Why the NHS is Rethinking "One-Size-Fits-All" Digital Records

NHS England Faces Fresh Probe Over Authorship of Data Platform Case Studies

Executive Director of Performance and Delivery Appointment Signals Continuity for NHS England

£19M Digital Overhaul Planned for North West Ambulance Service

A £2 billion investment surge shows industry confidence returning to Britain, but the same reforms driving it will also raise medicines spending across the NHS