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When Two Drugmakers Go to Court Over Whose Evidence Is Better, the NHS Is Quietly Taking Notes
A Delaware lawsuit over misleading weight-loss adverts exposes the evidential battle already shaping NICE decisions and NHS prescribing budgets in England.
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Younger Midwives are Quitting the NHS in Record Numbers, and the Pipeline Behind Them is Failing Too
New figures on early-career departures and training dropout rates point to a workforce crisis that begins long before staff reach the wards.
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Outside Disruption: NHS Removes Healthcare Background Requirement For Regional Chiefs
New national templates allow applicants from corporate, military or civil service backgrounds to lead Integrated Care Boards, as NHS England looks beyond clinical circles to run its regional health economies.
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Care Watchdog Chief Handed Power to Strip Whistleblower Anonymity, Prompting Warnings Over Regulatory Conflict
Absorption of safety body's functions into CQC puts unmasking decisions in the hands of the same executive responsible for enforcement action against providers.
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Britain's Life Sciences Boom Is Failing to Translate Into Longer, Healthier Lives
A new Academy of Medical Sciences assessment shows record industry growth sitting alongside falling healthy life expectancy, exposing a widening gap between discovery and delivery that NHS and government strategy has yet to confront.
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Flawed Growth Charts Are Costing Babies' Lives, Study Finds
A study of 3.2 million NHS births shows some hospitals are more than three times as likely as others to flag at-risk babies, depending on which measurement tool they use.
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The Anaesthetist Gap Is the Real Story Behind Britain's Waiting List Crisis
A Royal College report reveals that the NHS backlog is less a data problem than a workforce one, and the government's productivity narrative has yet to catch up.
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Hospitals Shoulder ‘Unreasonable Risk’ as NHS Diverts Funds to Unproven Neighbourhood Care
Shane DeGaris, head of Britain's largest acute trust, warns that skimming hospital budgets for community schemes leaves frontline services holding the bill while patient demand stays high.
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Personal Independence Payment as a Measure of NHS Failure, Not Welfare Generosity
The Timms review's interim findings suggest rising disability claims track health system strain, a conclusion with consequences for NHS accountability that ministers have yet to confront.
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The Cost of Moving Fast and Checking Later
The Covid counter-fraud commissioner's verdict was not cronyism but panic. The NHS is making the same trade-off again.
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Trust Delayed Vital Records for Inquiry Into 2,000 Deaths
Former chief executive admits to underestimating the scale and resources required for landmark investigation
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When the Silence Becomes the Story
How Ignored Warnings, Unsafe Transfers and Institutional Silence Exposed Mothers and Babies to Preventable Harm
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A Quiet Vaccine Expansion Tests Whether Labour's Prevention Rhetoric Survives Contact With General Practice
The RSV rollout to at-risk 65 to 74 year-olds is small in scale but large in symbolism for a government that has staked its NHS strategy on stopping illness before it starts.
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The Next Frontier in Oncology: How Lasers Could Revolutionise Cancer Care
Researchers are creating small, laser-powered devices that might provide proton and ion treatment in just one appointment, and the consequences for an overburdened NHS are difficult to overlook.
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Maternity Reforms 'Will Not Make a Difference,' Warns Senior Midwife
Donna Ockenden says the national Amos review tells her nothing new, as bereaved families demand a statutory public inquiry instead of another commissioner
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The NHS Test Andy Burnham Isn't Taking
His pitch for national leadership rests on a Greater Manchester experiment in integrated care that he has yet to honestly account for
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HMRC's VAT Demands on Free Cancer Drugs Expose a Policy Contradiction
Bayer's decision to halt its UK compassionate use scheme shows how tax enforcement can quietly work against Britain's life sciences ambitions
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What 2,000 HIV Diagnoses Say About NHS Prevention
The NHS's HIV opt-out programme has found 2,000 undiagnosed cases in four years. It also tells us something important about how the health service should think about prevention.
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NHS Approves Pembrolizumab for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer
Immunotherapy combination shown to improve survival rates will be available through Cancer Drugs Fund from today
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AI Systems in Healthcare Must Be Assessed Like Doctors, Commission Advises
Autonomous technology should face a tiered regulatory framework and prove its competency before undertaking high-risk medical procedures, a new review proposes.
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