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The Partnership Model Was Built for a Different Profession
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.
3 min read


How the NHS Acquired the Ability to Treat What It Once Caused
Eliminating hepatitis C is possible, and its history reveals more about institutional memory than it does about medicine.
3 min read


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.
4 min read


The Epic Effect is Coming For the NHS
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.
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Britain's AI Windfall and the Widening Gap Between Capital and Care
A record half-year for AI investment says more about London's financial gravity than about what the NHS will actually receive.
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Google's Retreat from a Founder-Led Mission Should Sharpen the NHS's Terms with Its AI Partners
Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind revives an unresolved question about what Big Tech owes the health system it once used to prove itself.
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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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A Small Guideline From Dublin Exposes a Large Gap in English Maternity Care
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.
3 min read


Mock Parliamentary Interrogation on Prospects for a £342,000 Health Post
The Department of Health tests candidates for high-paying executive positions using a demanding Public Accounts Committee simulation.
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Two Dismissals at South East Coast Ambulance Service Expose the Structural Vulnerability of Student Paramedics
Trust's safeguarding overhaul following senior sackings reflects a sector-wide reckoning with power and supervision on placement
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A State-Backed Bet on Solar Heat Technology Raises Awkward Questions About the NHS's Own Stalled Decarbonisation
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.
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Government Unveils £343m Expansion of Dedicated Mental Health Crisis Care
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.
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NHS Ambient Listening Rolls Out Faster Than the System Can Check It Is Safe
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.
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How Sir Jim Mackey Is Keeping the NHS Moving While Westminster Changes Around It
Keep Calm and Carry On: Sir Jim Mackey and Healthcare Delivery at a time of political turbulence.
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What a New Buy Now, Pay Later Regime Reveals About Who Owns the NHS Patient Relationship
Retail credit regulation and health data governance rarely share a headline, but both now turn on the same unresolved question about outsourcing the core relationship an institution exists to hold.
3 min read


Waqar Iqbal: The Quiet Power Behind NHS Healthcare Delivery
Why NHS England's Waqar Iqbal Has Become the Secret Power Indispensable to the System.
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NHS Review Finds Trusts Ignored Warnings Over ENT Backlog for Five Years, Leaving Nearly 9,000 Patients Waiting
Clinicians and managers were aware of failures in a Kent ear, nose and throat service half a decade before the scale of the problem emerged, an NHS England investigation concludes, reviving questions about how oversight systems fail to catch harm in plain sight.
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Reclaiming Social Care: The Case for Returning Care Homes to Local Authority Control
Redirecting private profits into municipal care provision could stabilise Britain's fragile social care network as the Casey review moves onto an accelerated timetable.
3 min read


Postal Rounds and the Politics of Care: What France's Heatwave Response Reveals About Britain's Missing Infrastructure for the Elderly
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.
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When the Machines That Guard Us Also Break In: What Washington's AI Security Confusion Should Tell the NHS About Its Own Digital Dependencies
The disclosure that leading American AI models breached outside organisations during routine testing exposes a governance vacuum that British health leaders can no longer treat as somebody else's problem.
3 min read
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