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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 DTC Health programme, overseen by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, is backing medical devices and AI-based diagnostic and therapeutic tools.

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

NHS Restructuring: Ministers Consider Ring-Fencing Key Staff from Department of Health

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.