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Cooper Tells NHS Boards Safeguarding "Must Be Everyone's Priority" After Thirlwall Report
Cooper Tells NHS Boards Safeguarding "Must Be Everyone's Priority" After Thirlwall Report
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The Cost of Compromise: Why the NHS is Rethinking "One-Size-Fits-All" Digital Records
The Cost of Compromise: Why the NHS is Rethinking "One-Size-Fits-All" Digital Records
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NHS England Faces Fresh Probe Over Authorship of Data Platform Case Studies
NHS England Faces Fresh Probe Over Authorship of Data Platform Case Studies
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Executive Director of Performance and Delivery Appointment Signals Continuity for NHS England
Executive Director of Performance and Delivery Appointment Signals Continuity for NHS England
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£19M Digital Overhaul Planned for North West Ambulance Service
£19M Digital Overhaul Planned for North West Ambulance Service
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The Price Of Winning Pharma Back
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
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NHS Restructuring: Ministers Consider Ring-Fencing Key Staff from Department of Health
NHS Restructuring: Ministers Consider Ring-Fencing Key Staff from Department of Health
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Health Boards Turn Guardian As The State Steps Back From Patient Scrutiny
An integrated care board's £1.6 million rescue of its local Healthwatch reveals how far NHS reform has pushed accountability onto whoever is left holding the budget.
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From Bank of England Governor to Canada’s Prime Minister: Why Mark Carney’s Clash With America Could Benefit the NHS
As Washington pushes old allies to rethink familiar partnerships, Mark Carney’s standoff with the United States may open an unexpected door for Europe and the NHS. The real prize is not simply lower tariffs. It is the chance to build new routes for patient access, staff, technology, market entry, clinical research and the cost of medicines.
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A Provincial Trust's Rejected Gambit Exposes the Narrow Path Left for NHS Capital Investment
NHS England's refusal of Mid and South Essex's £94 million off-balance-sheet financing scheme reveals how tightly Whitehall now guards the boundary between public debt and private capital in a service starved of both.
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When the Rules for Looking Are Harder to Write Than the Rules for Storing
NHS England's retreat on patient data access exposes a gap between the ambitions of centralised health data and the unglamorous work of governing who gets to look at it.
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UK Pledges £343M for Mental Health Expansion and Youth Digital Support
New community hubs and emergency departments mark an early domestic policy test for Yvette Cooper, while Somerset ICB's separate tender points to the smaller-scale procurement decisions now running alongside the national rollout.
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The Overtime Dispute Northern Care Alliance Already Knew How to Fix
Renewed theatre strikes at an enforcement-flagged trust raise questions about managerial consistency rather than clinical safety.
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MHRA Clears First Oral GLP-1 Tablet for Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes as NHS Access Question Remains Unresolved
Authorisation of Eli Lilly's Foundayo marks a European regulatory first, but the drug's path onto NHS formularies now depends on how quickly NICE can complete its evaluation.
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Safety Watchdog Calls for Pause on NHS Referral Scheme After Deaths Linked to Delayed Care
Investigators warn that gaps in oversight of the Advice and Guidance policy left patients falling between primary and secondary care, as regulators separately press NHS England on the safety of its expansion.
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The New Puppeteers of NHS Care: How US Tech Is Moving Inside Britain’s Health Service
The NHS is British, publicly funded and built around universal care. Yet more of its digital nervous system is being supplied by American technology companies. The question is no longer whether this technology works. It is how dependent Britain is prepared to become.
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Federated Data Platform's Promised Savings Cut by £1.7bn as Costs Continue to Climb
New figures reported show the benefits once projected for the NHS's flagship data platform have been substantially overstated, sharpening the case ministers must weigh before a 2027 decision on the Palantir contract.
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Why the NHS Has a Winter Plan and No Summer One
The NHS's planning deficit has been revealed by extreme heat, a gap that has never needed to be addressed during decades of winter crisis management. The political response thus far indicates that the government has not yet fully assessed the extent of the issue.
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The Succession Question at NHS England Has a New Name: Elizabeth O’Mahony
Elizabeth O’Mahony has spent her career mastering the NHS’s hardest problem: turning money into delivery. That may make her precisely the sort of leader the health service needs next.
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NHS Pathology Staff Held 20 Days of Strike Action in Lancashire Holiday Pay Row
Due to unpaid holiday benefits inherited by a new main employer trust, biomedical experts at Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals went on strike.
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