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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.

The health secretary's blunt language on hospital discharge captures a decade-old failure, but fixing it demands more than a change of tone at the top of the department.

A five-year vision built on ambient voice and a single data platform sits alongside a more modest, and more telling, admission: tens of millions of pounds are needed simply to stop the network falling over.

A regional accelerator indicates that the more challenging obstacle for innovators is not the development of high-quality technology, but rather the process of understanding how the NHS purchases it. This is in response to the influx of capital into general practice software.

The elimination of hepatitis C would mark one of the NHS's quietest redemptions, but the funding and structures behind it are more fragile than the announcement suggests.

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.

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.

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.

A new survey of American health system leaders reveals something much bigger than the rise of another successful software company. Epic is beginning to determine not simply how hospitals run, but which other technology companies are allowed to play. For NHS executive teams and the thousands of vendors hoping to sell into British healthcare, the implications are enormous.

A record half-year for AI investment says more about London's financial gravity than about what the NHS will actually receive.

Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind revives an unresolved question about what Big Tech owes the health system it once used to prove itself.

Due to unpaid holiday benefits inherited by a new main employer trust, biomedical experts at Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals went on strike.

Ireland has just standardised something the NHS has never managed to agree upon nationally, and the contrast says more about the state of maternity safety in England than any single policy failure could.

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

Trust's safeguarding overhaul following senior sackings reflects a sector-wide reckoning with power and supervision on placement

Great British Energy has found almost £9 million to build a British factory for renewable heat. Hospitals, meanwhile, are still burning gas to keep their wards warm, and the money to change that keeps arriving too slowly and too late.

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.

As HSSIB opens an inquiry into voice AI in hospitals, the scale of adoption already underway raises the question of what a 2027 finding can still change.

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