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A £1.5 million Birmingham contract shows what NHS obesity care now looks like on paper, and how much still depends on what happens off it.

The Care Quality Commission's latest inpatient survey shows a health service coping unevenly with pressure, and the unevenness has a shape.

Norfolk and Suffolk's advance to full mobilisation on its SystmOne rollout sits alongside trusts at earlier and more precarious stages of the same journey, exposing how unevenly digital maturity is spreading across the service just as its national overseer prepares to disappear.

Ireland's structured approach to scaling digital pathways exposes the evidential gaps in England's own virtual ward expansion.

The legal fight over sleep accuracy could have consequences far beyond consumers, including NHS observational studies, digital biomarkers and the future of wearable-led research.

Google's wrist-worn health insights arrive as Whitehall's own prevention strategy struggles to move beyond aspiration.

As dozens of trusts weigh closure against staffing collapse, the NHS is being forced into a choice it has spent decades avoiding: proximity or survival.

Eleven cases in Barry since December have forced a five-day vaccination drive at a district hospital, and exposed how little the UK's immunisation architecture has adapted to a disease it has chosen to manage only after the fact.

The NHS events calendar is crowded, but the latest picture suggests that attention is concentrating around a relatively small number of meetings.

The former finance director's promotion from interim to substantive leadership closes a six-month transition period as the ICB prepares to implement a new operating model under the 10 Year Health Plan.

New data on GP earnings lands amid a funding dispute that exposes how far the structure of general practice has drifted from the workforce now delivering it.

Eliminating hepatitis C is possible, and its history reveals more about institutional memory than it does about medicine.

The Department of Health tests candidates for high-paying executive positions using a demanding Public Accounts Committee simulation.

159 new facilities will open throughout England as part of a significant reform of NHS services in an effort to relieve emergency rooms and provide localised early care.

Keep Calm and Carry On: Sir Jim Mackey and Healthcare Delivery at a time of political turbulence.

As France repurposes its mail network to check on isolated pensioners during extreme heat, the absence of any comparable system in the UK exposes how far social care has been allowed to erode.

The quiet closure of the Medical Training Initiative says less about workforce planning than about which arguments a stretched health service is willing to make in public.

Two years after rejecting the first drugs shown to delay Alzheimer's disease, the rationing body's methodological reversal exposes how negotiable its own economics can become, and what that might cost the NHS when the next expensive treatment arrives.

New six-hour bed clearance orders assume a reserve of capacity that years of occupancy pressure have already spent.

Julia Nixon takes up the role at HDFT following a national search, succeeding Russell Nightingale after his move to a Tees trust.